Articles about Carl Icahn

Carl Icahn invests $100M in Uber rival Lyft as part of a $150M round

Well-known activist shareholder and billionaire investor Carl Icahn today announced a $100 million investment in Lyft, part of a new $150… Read More

Marc Andreessen steps down from eBay’s board anyway

Marc Andreessen said he is stepping down from eBay’s board months after shareholder activisit Carl Icahn was seeking a similar change to the… Read More

Carl Icahn rips Marc Andreessen over Skype deal, says VC has ‘screwed more people than Casanova’

It’s safe to say that Carl Icahn and Marc Andreessen aren’t exactly on good terms. After Andreessen called Icahn an “evil… Read More

Apple to Icahn: We’ll buy back our shares when we want to, thanks

Carl Icahn has published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, praising him for the company’s performance. It’s a slightly… Read More

Nuance sale talks put valuable speech-recognition patent portfolio up for grabs

Nuance Communications, a company with deep expertise in speech-recognition industry, may be up for sale. The Burlington, Mass.-based company has been in talks… Read More

Icahn now in favor of eBay having partial custody of PayPal

Let the custody battles begin. Shareholder activist Carl Icahn reversed course today, saying he no longer supported the idea that… Read More

Icahn’s reasons for eBay-PayPal spin-off still missing, yet ranting continues

Shareholder activist Carl Icahn continues a daily stream of threats aimed at eBay and PayPal, and yet has failed to… Read More

EBay Issues ‘The Truth About Skype’ in response to Icahn’s Accusations

The Skype spin-off has become a core piece of evidence in Carl Icahn’s campaign to force eBay to spin-off PayPal into… Read More

Icahn to eBay shareholders: Skype sale to Microsoft raises ‘red flags’

In a letter sent to eBay shareholders today, Carl Icahn calls eBay’s corporate governance “dysfunctional,” particularly when it came to… Read More

Apple’s revenue should top $57 billion for December quarter, analysts say

Quarterly earnings season ticks on this week, with Apple entering the fiscal spotlight this afternoon as it announces its fiscal… Read More

After Icahn takes Netflix stake, streaming video service looks to fend off unwanted suitors

Shares of Netflix surged last week after billionaire investor Carl Icahn purchased 9.98 percent of the streaming media service, suggesting… Read More