{"id":7062,"date":"2008-07-15T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/did_carl_icahn_kill_the_yahoo_deal.html"},"modified":"2008-07-15T10:06:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:06:31","slug":"did-carl-icahn-kill-the-yahoo-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/did-carl-icahn-kill-the-yahoo-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Carl Icahn Kill the Yahoo Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think many of us couldn&#8217;t stop watching the OJ trial years back &#8212; not because we wanted to but because we were drawn to it. Some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curiosity#Morbid_curiosity\">morbid curiosity<\/a> I suppose. This is how I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/google\/yahoomicrosoft-the-never-ending-story.html\">feel<\/a> about the Microsoft\/Yahoo deal and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/7\/our-theory-carl-icahn-screwed-up-friday-s-yahoo-microsoft-search-negotiation\">latest<\/a> in this never-ending story is that Carl Icahn killed the deal by adding in the provision that the senior management and board leave the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think many of us couldn&#8217;t stop watching the OJ trial years back &#8212; not because we wanted to but because we were drawn to it. Some sort of morbid curiosity I suppose. This is how I feel about the Microsoft\/Yahoo deal and the latest in this never-ending story is that Carl Icahn killed the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1677,188,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}