How To Watch Yahoo Shareholder Meeting LIVE
Sillicon Alley Insider - Henry Blodget | August 1, 2008 10:06 AM
The Yahoo shareholder meeting is likely to be one hell of an anti-climax, but for those who want to watch, here’s the link. It’s starts at 10AM PT.
Yes, shareholders will vent and, yes, Yahoo will elect a few new board members. But the only real drama is who will fill Carl Icahn’s third board seat. The leading candidates, apparently, are Frank Biondi (Ran Viacom a hundred years ago before Sumner Redstone canned him) and John Chapple, the ex head of Nextel.
UPDATE: So it might be a bit more interesting: Former AOL CEO Jon Miller, who was supposed to come aboard with Icahn and a candidate to be named later, may be wavering. And it turns out that two of Icahn’s three slots (he’ll get one) don’t have to get filled for up to two weeks following the meeting. So this may drag on a while longer.
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First, a mediocre quarter: Q2 results in line with previous guidance (probably middle of range) and an okay but uninspiring outlook. How will Yahoo report such results when display-ad driven Internet companies are blowing up all around it? Because it has had the good fortune of having set the bar so low that it can fall over it. To be sure, there’s still time for the company to blow Q3 or Q4, if the ad market continues to deteriorate, but we suspect the Q2 numbers will be okay.