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2. Senator Warren’s Bizarro Corporate Governance
  
  Explore amac.us Aug 17 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ars beginning with 1981 than it did in the 35 preceding years. The most valuable companies in the world today—Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft—were all in their infancy, or nonexistent, in 1980. Such companies have b...
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3. Icahn Dealt Another Blow as Glass Lewis Supports Cigna Deal
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Aug 11 2018 BoardNews
  
  ..., the billionaire investor has urged Cigna investors to vote against it, based in part on the threat posed by Amazon.com Inc. to Express Scripts’s future. The activist investor said he believed Cigna would be better serv...
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4. Rite Aid and Albertsons Have Called Off Their $24 Billion Merger
  
  Explore Business Insider Aug 9 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...al Management LP, who were hoping that the deal will help them win a new business amid pressure from retailer Amazon.com Inc ( AMZN.O ) and Walmart Inc ( WMT.N ). Also opposed to the deal is Highfields Capital Management...
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5. Cigna’s Express Scripts Deal Could Lead to Higher Prices for Consumers
  
  Explore MarketWatch Aug 7 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...edy. If it enters the pharmacy space, Amazon AMZN, +1.11% could become consumers’ saving grace, Friend said. “Amazon is going to get into the market in a very powerful way; it’s going to be a very competitive force,” he ...
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6. Health Care Mergers in Doubt as Amazon Looms Large
  
  Explore CNNMoney Aug 5 2018 BoardNews
  
  .... Amazon is creating a health care company along with JPMorgan Chase and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. Amazon -- who else? -- also announced in June that is buying online pharmacy PillPack, which already has pharm...
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7. UK: Royal Mail Loses the Plot Disregarding Shareholders Anger Over Boardroom Pay
  
  Explore This is Money Jul 26 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... acclaimed Patrick Melrose drama. As traditional media firms gird their loins to fight disrupters Netflix and Amazon, no one knows where the pieces will fall. History suggests the current £26billion and rising battle for...
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8. Loeb's Third Point Takes PayPal Stake, Sees Stock Rising to $125
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jul 23 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...ilers like Amazon and Walmart Inc. are able to negotiate lower rates based on their massive purchasing power. Amazon is offering to pass along those discounts to at least some smaller merchants to encourage use of its Am...
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  Mentions: Hedge Fund Carl Icahn Amazon
9. Murdoch's Fox Beats Comcast With Agreed $32.5 Billion Bid for Sky
  
  Explore Business Insider Jul 11 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... biggest media giants battle each other for multi-billion dollar deals to be able to compete with Netflix and Amazon. Fox, which owns 39% of Sky and is due to gain British regulatory clearance for the deal this week, upp...
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10. Intel's 'CEO Problem' Is Its Board
  
  Explore TechNewsWorld Jul 2 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ire HD 8 tablet. So, I immediately got the Fire TV Cube when it became available. At a cost of around US$120, Amazon's Fire TV Cube is one of the more expensive Alexa-enabled devices. I used it to replace a second-genera...
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11. Silicon Valley Billionaires’ Favorite Nonprofit Crumbles Beneath Mounting Greed
  
  Explore MarketWatch Jul 1 2018 BoardNews
  
  .... Under Carson, the foundation opened up offices in San Francisco and New York. Read: The SEC wants more from Amazon and Google, but isn’t getting it “They would try to poach donors that aren’t connected in their communi...
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12. Activist Jana Is Set to Make $144 Million on Pinnacle Foods Deal
  
  Explore Bloomberg Jun 27 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...company. In 2017, the hedge fund acquired an 8.3 percent stake in Whole Foods, making about $300 million when Amazon.com Inc. agreed to purchase the company for $13.7 billion a few months later....
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13. Waiting for Peter Thiel: Big Tech Directors Miss Shareholder Meetings
  
  Explore reuters.com Jun 24 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...d strong director attendance this year, according to transcripts and spokespeople. Tech leaders Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc also had good director attendance. On the other end of the scale, some other tech firms are tak...
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14. Shareholders Are Trying to Pressure Jeff Bezos into Cutting Off Amazon's Deals to Sell Facial Recognition to Police Departments
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 18 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...... Civil rights groups and a shareholders are putting pressure on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling the Amazon Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. The groups raise privacy concerns,...
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15. Shareholders Reject Bid to Link Google Diversity to Exec Pay
  
  Explore sfgate.com Jun 7 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...was challenged by eBay, excluded from Apple's shareholder meeting by financial regulators, and withdrawn from Amazon on a technicality. Intel, Microsoft and IBM, however, have established some kind of link between pay an...
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16. Tech Company Shareholder Meetings Turn Testy as Backlash Grows -
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Jun 6 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...meeting last week to create an independent chairman to stop letting Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos "treat Amazon like his personal sandbox." Bezos said all large institutions, including corporations, should invite sc...
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