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Activist investor Carl Icahn had hoped to bring change to eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) when he nominated two of his own employees to the Board. eBay rejected that nomination and released a statement from independent director and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee Chairman Richard T. Schlosberg,...

In January, activist investor Carl Icahn called for eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) to spinoff PayPal. Since then, he has repeated his stance several times. Commenting last week at a conference in Silicon Valley, PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel was asked if he thought PayPal should be...

Within the past couple of weeks a fierce battle has erupted between Carl Icahn, the legendary investor known for his sharp and witty moves, and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). Icahn wants eBay's management restructured; eBay would like to be left alone. Icahn's latest salvo came February 24, when he...

Craig Barrett, former Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) chairman and CEO, went over education reform on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning with a specific emphasis on raising the current standards in order for the United States to remain internationally competitive. He also discussed Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB)...

John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), went over the value of the synergies between eBay and PayPal in response to activist investor Carl Icahn's suggestion to have the latter separate from its parent company with claims that it'll accelerate PayPal's growth, on CNBC's Squawk on...

2014 isn’t off to a good start for two of the world’s favorite apps. Reports have emerged that Skype and Snapchat were hacked. First Snapchat. The company has confirmed that the popular photo messaging app was hacked and the perpetrators posted a database containing the user names and phone...

According to The Information (subscription required), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) plans to come out with a set-top box called Nexus TV sometime in the first half of 2014. The new device, Geekwire said, would compete with Apple's Apple TV, Microsoft's Xbox One, and Amazon's rumored-but-so-far-delayed...

The Chinese language version of Techweb (complete with a not-so-subtle graphic depicting Skype’s emergence as the new sheriff in town) noted Friday that Chinese mobile Internet company TOM Online will turn Skype operations in mainland China over to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) November 24. The Next...

Investors might want to reconsider their plans for Twitter. Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, is not satisfied with the information that Twitter has provided before its initial public offering. "I think the S-1 filing has done a very poor job,"...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has unveiled the long-awaited successor to its first series of tablets. Surface 2, the follow-up to last year's Surface RT, will retail for $449 and ship on October 22 with a special 8.1 version of Windows RT. The new tablet comes with a full-HD display and a CPU whose...