Comments on: Yang note welcomes Icahn's 'fresh perspective'

After months of exchanging barbs with investor activist Carl Icahn, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang tells employees he's looking forward to working with Icahn on the board.

[Renegade Knight]

For 1.99, and stock options Yang could hire me to give him a fresh perspective as well. Better still is that I'm not trying to take the company down.

[Renegade Knight]

For a buck ninety nine and stock options Yang could hire me to give him a fresh perspective as well. Better still is that I'm not trying to take the company down.

[jamalystic]

Rnegade Knight, you are perfectly right. What 'new perspective' will yang expect Icahn to bring on board besides that of the 'microsoft perspective'!! Would a man put fie in hi sbosom and not get burn? This is the position yahoo is in withregards to this peace deal!!

[Penguinisto]

Ahh, gotta love corporate PR-speak.

Basically, Yang is doing a bit of Zen - keep Icahn close where he can be contained (and muzzled), and suddenly no more talk of MSFT trying to use its puppet to swallow Yahoo.

Pretty cool, huh?

[limefan913]

Did anyone catch this?

"...includes the rest of Mr. Icahn's slate and Jon Miller, former Chairman and CEO of AOL."

AOL? You're kidding me right?

That's a perspective no one needs...

[Seaspray0]

With no potential offer from microsoft, I can see the stock tanking. The only reason it has remained high recently was due the potential increase in value if a sale had taken place (msft was offering much more than the going rate for the stock). Look for a selloff of stock once people realize they won't be getting a higher offer a month from now. These people aren't interested in msft or yahoo, they're just looking for that quick buck.

[Penguinisto]

"tanking" would imply that the value would drop to values well below what they were before this whole mess started. Personally, I believe it will merely return to pre-speculation values.