You have to laugh at the news today that a major Yahoo shareholder has asked for a review of how its votes were cast in last week's re-election of the company's board, raising questions about whether the opposition to the directors may have been understated. Capital Research's manager, Gordon Crawford, has publicly scolded Yahoo's leadership for its response to a $47.5 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., which withdrew the offer three months ago after Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang demanded more money.
THIS JUST IN... It was confirmed late Tuesday that Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., an independent voting intermediary, made errors in reporting votes from Yahoo's annual shareholder's meeting on Aug. 1. When Broadridge reported voting results for "withholds," a truncation error occurred in reporting share numbers that exceeded eight digits, according to Yahoo. The board seat tabulation has been corrected to 33.7% withheld shares for Chief Executive Jerry Yang from 14.6% and 39.6% withheld for Chairman Roy Bostock rather than 20.5%. Holy s*h*i*t. That's a hell of a "truncation error!"
Hardly incisive commentary, repeating the news story and declaring that you "have to laugh at it." Any other news stories that you would care to share the approiate response to?
Hey Ben...
Apart from getting yourself a spell checker... If you don't like what I write... No one is forcing you to read it... You can always retire to your local boozer while you check out who to slag off after they have posted something they may find of interest to the readers of BrandRepublic... Even though it might upset a W*A*N*K*E*R like you. And as I always say on my various blogs... Go F*U*C*K yourself. Cheers/George
A) Article is useful
B) Comments from both are you are just as interesting!!
George,
While I think your response is approiate (I mean, appropriate...), could you have maybe refrained from the swearing? Asterisks and all, it's still pretty juvenile. Why even give merit to such a response by responding? I have no idea why anyone cares about anything when there's beer. (BEER)
* I fear that my comment is not interesting. *
* nor funny *
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