Remember a couple of months ago, when hedge fund giant Carl Icahn went nuclear on hedge fund giant Bill Ackman for short-selling Herbalife stock? Turns out the spat might've made both men millions.
Never mind that Dell buyout deal proposed by founder and CEO Michael Dell in early February, activist investor and professional company shaker upper Carl Icahn with the help of Blackstone has put a better offer on the table, he confirmed in a letter today
No one puts the activist in "activist investor" quite like Carl Icahn, who just won the latest round in the fight over Dell computers — just one of his many, many attempts to bend major corporations to his will.
About that proposed $24.4 billion buyout of Dell: the notorious shaker-upper doesn't like the sound of the deal, so it looks like he's gone and bought up a big stake to get his way — in very Icahn-ish fashion, of course.
Investing giant Carl Icahn is still fighting his war of words against hedge fund rival Bill Ackman, but he swears it's not about personal feelings—it's about making money. Hurting Ackman's feelings in the process is just a nice bonus.
Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn just took their Herbalife scuffle to CNBC for perhaps the most entertaining half-hour in the history of financial news television. Here's the story behind the story, and who came out on top.
The latest in the Carl Icahn-versus-Netflix saga has Icahn calling Netflix's poison pill measure "poor governance" in an SEC filing, which is exactly what we would expect Icahn to do, given his former dealings with companies like this.
Billionaire Carl Icahn is the latest investor to return his clients' capital
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