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Icahn takes his seat at Yahoo table

By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco

Published: September 21 2008 16:33 | Last updated: September 21 2008 16:33

Yahoo’s reconstituted board is expected to meet for the first time on Tuesday, with activist member Carl Icahn committed to renewing the pressure for a deal with Microsoft.

Mr Icahn, the billionaire investor, and two allies were elected after Yahoo’s annual meeting on August 1 in a deal that ended a proxy fight he had led to unseat the board.

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