Richard Wray
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/ 14 May 2008

What’s the deal?

For Jerry Yang, July 3 will loom large in his diary. That is the date that Yahoo!, the online giant he co-founded 14 years ago, has set for its annual shareholder meeting and he will face dismayed investors, angry at the weekend’s rejection of a last-minute ,5-billion offer from Microsoft.

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/ 19 February 2007

Vodafone’s grab for growth

The snapping up of a controlling stake in India’s fourth-largest mobile phone operator, Hutchison Essar (Hutch), is being seen as transformational for Vodafone — and a major coup for its chief executive, Arun Sarin, less than a year after a shareholder rebellion over uncertainty aaout the group’s direction.