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The punches are starting to fly fast as Yahoo and Carl Icahn duke it out over the company’s future. Yahoo shot down a new offer by Microsoft over the weekend to buy the search portion of its business and leave the remaining pieces under Icahn’s control. Now, Icahn and the current board of directors are in a heated war of words over who has the shareholders’ best interests in mind. Yahoo’s shareholders are set to meet in just under three weeks — on Aug. 1 — when they’ll decide whether or not to replace the current management with Icahn and his proposed team.

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Yahoo, Icahn Fire Broadsides as Shareholders’ Meeting Draws Near

As the heated Democratic primary race came to a conclusion last month, much discussion centered on presumptive nominee Barack Obama’s superior fundraising. Hillary Clinton started the race with an edge among deep-pocket donors, but Obama roared to the nomination finish line with a substantial fundraising lead. Much of that money came in through the Internet, a trend that experts say will figure prominently in the general election to come.

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Squeezing the Internet for Political Cash, Part 1: Follow the Leader