{"id":40797,"date":"2014-02-25T03:19:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T08:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40797"},"modified":"2014-02-25T03:19:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T08:19:32","slug":"icahn-accuses-ebay-board-members-of-conflicts-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2014\/icahn-accuses-ebay-board-members-of-conflicts-of-interest.html","title":{"rendered":"Icahn accuses eBay board members of conflicts of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeWorld &#8211; Billionaire investor\u00a0Carl Icahn\u00a0accused eBay Inc. Chief Executive John Donahoe of failing to spot \u2013 or ignoring \u2013 conflicts of interest on the company&#8217;s board and called again for the spinoff of its fast-growing PayPal payments business.<\/p>\n<p>Icahn, who also disclosed a 2.15 percent stake in the e-commerce giant on Monday [Feb. 24], said in a letter to shareholders that two long-time board members, Marc Andreessen and Scott Cook, had business interests that directly competed with eBay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeworld.com\/open_news\/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&amp;story=dail23238.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeWorld &#8211; Billionaire investor\u00a0Carl Icahn\u00a0accused eBay Inc. Chief Executive John Donahoe of failing to spot \u2013 or ignoring \u2013 conflicts of interest on the company&#8217;s board and called again for the spinoff of its fast-growing PayPal payments business. Icahn, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40798,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40797\/revisions\/40798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}