By Sam Forgione and Phil Wahba NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and eBay Inc took their war of words up a notch on Wednesday. Icahn, who last month called for eBay to sell off its fast-growing PayPal payments business, called corporate governance at the e-commerce giant "dysfunctional" …
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Economic Times eBay Leads Giant $133.7 Million Investment in Indian Shopping Site SnapdealRe/codeEBay contributed a large majority of the total investment, according to a person familiar with the deal, while existing investors took part on a smaller scale. Last spring, eBay also led a $50 million investment in Snapdeal, which …
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Raw Story Fox News guest tells Hannity: 'Overfed' blacks use food stamps as a 'fat pill'Raw StoryVice co-founder Gavin McInnes on Tuesday told Fox News host Sean Hannity not to demonize white people because it was the black Dominicans in New York who were abusing food stamps as a “fat …
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker tells Fortune how a new alliance with the tech company could help beef up exports and job creation. More: continued here
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CARL ICAHN: The eBay Board Is Dysfunctional And It's Time To End The CharadeBusiness InsiderIn our February 24, 2014 letter to eBay stockholders,(1) we raised what we consider to be serious and direct questions regarding corporate governance at eBay, with particular focus on the conduct of CEO John Donahoe and …
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WFAA Postal Delivery Concerns After Carrier Returns MailCBS 11A single voter's complaint led the Dallas County Elections Department to investigate and discover the post office delivery issue. On Tuesday Dallas County Commissioners heard from elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole. She told city leaders that a …Undelivered voter registration cards will cost …
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