Carl Icahn May Give Up On Yahoo! After Google Deal

Carl Icahn May Give Up On Yahoo! After Google Deal
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The drubbing Carl Icahn took last week may just have beaten the stuffing out of him. The raider "hinted" that he might not press forward with his campaign to get Yahoo's board fired, Reuters says.

In his first comments since the end of Microsoft-Yahoo talks nuked Yahoo's stock (and Icahn's stake), Carl tells Reuters that he thinks the Google search deal Yahoo signed "might have some merit" and is "better than the alternative deal proposed by Microsoft":

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