Yahoo board approves new talks with AOL: report

September 25, 2008

Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors, which now includes one-time nemesis Carl Icahn, has approved new talks with Time Warner Inc. on a possible merger with America Online, a news report said Wednesday.

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