Reuters: Market News: Third Point says Yahoo board challenge coming

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Third Point says Yahoo board challenge coming Mar 14th 2012, 22:05 By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 | Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:05pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 (Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Third Point said it will launch a campaign in the next seven days to install its own hand-picked directors on Yahoo Inc's board, blasting the struggling Internet company for failing to give the firm a greater say in its operations. "The board's stonewalling, apparent insouciance and decision not to engage with us in a serious manner, has left us no choice but to directly approach our fellow owners with the shareholder slate," Third Point Founder and Chief Executive Dan Loeb wrote in a letter to Yahoo filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The letter represents the latest salvo from Third Point, whose 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo ranks it among the company's largest institutional shareholders, which has sharply criticized Yahoo's performance and its strategy. Third Point said in February it intended to nominate four directors to Yahoo's board, including former NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker and Third Point's Loeb. The deadline for outside shareholders to officially nominate a rival slate of directors to Yahoo's board is March 25. Yahoo, whose revenue slid by more than a fifth last year, brought in former PayPal President Scott Thompson as chief executive in January, five months after Carol Bartz was fired. Once a Web powerhouse, Yahoo has struggled amid competition from rivals such as Facebook and Google Inc. On Monday Yahoo sued Facebook for infringing 10 of its patents relating to online advertising, privacy and social networking technology. Yahoo said in February that four of its board members, including Chairman Roy Bostock, will not stand for re-election this year, and appointed a former IBM executive and a former eBay COO to join the board as independent directors. Yahoo shares were up 4 cents at $14.67 in after hours trading on Wednesday. Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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