{"id":6858,"date":"2013-04-08T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2607653"},"modified":"2013-04-08T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:45:00","slug":"icahn-hangs-tough-on-dell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/icahn-hangs-tough-on-dell\/","title":{"rendered":"Icahn Hangs Tough on Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has refused to drop his threat of<br \/>\nsetting off a proxy fight for control of Dell\u2019s board unless the company pays<br \/>\nout a whopping big dividend as he originally proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Dell\u2019s board wants him to make a formal bid for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Before he even thinks about that, he wants Dell to pledge to reimburse his<br \/>\nout-of-pocket expenses for doing due diligence on the company.<\/p>\n<p>The board\u2019s special committee has already agreed to repay Silver Lake and<br \/>\nBlackstone.<\/p>\n<p>It said Friday it would consider Icahn\u2019s request if he dropped his proxy fight<br \/>\nintentions and his threat of \u201cyears of litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Icahn told the Wall Street<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2607653\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has refused to drop his threat of<br \/>\nsetting off a proxy fight for control of Dell\u2019s board unless the company pays<br \/>\nout a whopping big dividend as he originally proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Dell\u2019s board wants him to make a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}