Billionaire New York investor Carl Icahn said Wednesday he is creating a $150 million super PAC focused on revising corporate tax law. Icahn will use his super PAC to press Congress to pass legislation that stops U.S. companies from moving ...

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Carl Icahn is joining the parade of investors in startups, hitching a $100 million ride with on-demand ride sharing service Lyft. The billionaire activist investor is known for tangling with corporate boards, sometimes launching proxy fights and pushing companies to ...

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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is giving up his bitter takeover fight for Dell Inc. a few days before shareholders are scheduled to consider the latest buyout offer from the struggling computer maker’s founder Michael Dell. Icahn said Monday in a ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware judge on Friday dealt a blow to activist investor Carl Icahn’s effort to stop CEO and founder Michael Dell’s $24.8 billion buyout offer for the struggling computer maker. He refused to fast-track proceedings on Icahn’s ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Dell’s woes worsened during its most recent quarter as the slumping personal computer maker resorted to rampant price cutting to slow a sales decline driven by a growing reliance on smartphones and tablets to connect to the ...

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NEW YORK — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says Apple should buy back more stock. Icahn said on Twitter Tuesday that he spoke with Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook and told him the computer company’s stock buyback needs to be boosted ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Dell’s board rejected CEO Michael Dell’s attempt to change the voting rules for his bid to buy the slumping personal computer maker, a decision that is likely to doom the deal. But the endangered buyout could still ...

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The Dell board is standing behind a buyout offer from the company’s CEO and founder, and it has asked shareholders of the slumping PC maker to approve the deal in a July 18 vote. The company’s announcement Friday is the ...

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Dell board members say they need more details from investor Carl Icahn if he wants them to seriously consider his latest challenge to Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion plan to take the computer maker private. Icahn and prominent Dell shareholder Southeastern ...

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Dell’s largest independent shareholder has teamed with activist investor Carl Icahn in another challenge to founder Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion bid to take the struggling computer maker private. Southeastern Asset Management and Icahn said in a May 9 letter to ...

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