EBay (EBAY) on Monday rejected the two nominees that activist investor Carl Icahn, who wants to spin off PayPal, nominated to its board. EBay called on shareholders to vote against Icahn’s nominees at the company’s next annual meeting. No meeting date has been set, but it probably will be mid-April. In its preliminary proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, eBay nominated four existing board members for
Activist investor Carl Icahn released an open letter to eBay (EBAY) shareholders Thursday in the wake of a Bernstein research report that says a majority of investors favor a change in eBay’s board composition. “We are strongly encouraged by the results published yesterday of an investor survey conducted by Bernstein Research regarding our campaign to prove to eBay’s board of directors that stockholders are in favor of separating PayPal from the
EBay (EBAY) CEO John Donahoe answered activist investor Carl Icahn’s criticisms of corporate governance at the company in a Wednesday TV interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo. Donahoe was responding to Icahn’s earlier comment on the CNBC business network Wednesday that he’s “never seen worse corporate governance” than at eBay. Asked by Bartiromo on Fox’s Opening Bell show whether Icahn’s comments about corporate governance at eBay