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Icahn and Time Warner reach agreement

By Aline van Duyn, James Politi and Joshua Chaffin in New York

Published: February 17 2006 18:10 | Last updated: February 18 2006 00:16

Time Warner and Carl Icahn on Friday night reached a settlement that will end the activist investor’s six-month campaign to break up the world’s biggest media compan

Icahn calls Time and walks the long walk

Time Warner will increase its share buyback programme to $20bn from $12.5bn, implement a $1bn company-wide cost-cutting programme by 2007 and appoint two new independent members to its board.

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