Activist investor Carl Icahn on Wednesday called on eBay Inc to sell 20 percent of its PayPal payments unit in an initial public offering, a change in tack from his previous call for a complete spinoff. Icahn in January called for eBay to hive off its fast growing PayPal business, …
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