Editor’s note: Richard Wong is a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, an investor in AdMob, GetJar, and SunRun, and a former mobile industry executive. In this guest post he argues that the fragmentation of mobile devices and platforms is here ...

There seems to be at least one investor who is happy with Yahoo ’s decision last week to enter into a 10-year Web search deal with Microsoft : Carl C. Icahn.

There seems to be at least one investor who is happy with Yahoo ’s decision last week to enter into a 10-year Web search deal with Microsoft : Carl C. Icahn.

There seems to be at least one investor who is happy with Yahoo ’s decision last week to enter into a 10-year Web search deal with Microsoft : Carl C. Icahn.

After a couple months of exchanging barbs with investor activist Carl Icahn, Yahoo's founder and CEO Jerry Yang issues an employee email signaling the battle is over.

Yahoo Inc. said Monday it reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn that will put him and two of his nominees on an expanded board of directors.

Yahoo Inc will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two members of his slate of directors to the company's board, settling a proxy battle ahead of its August 1 annual shareholders meeting.

Yahoo said it had reached a settlement with the investor Carl Icahn to avert a battle over control of the company.

SAN FRANCISCO – One of Yahoo Inc.’s largest shareholders is supporting the re-election of the Internet company’s incumbent board, delivering a significant blow to an attempted coup being led by activist investor Carl Icahn.