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Business NewsNEW YORK (Reuters) - Third Point LLC, a $5.7 billion hedge fund headed by activist Dan Loeb, has recently accumulated a stake of over 5 million shares in Yahoo Inc and is supporting investor Carl Icahns proxy battle, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.


By Dane Hamilton

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Third Point LLC, a $5.7 billion hedge fund headed by activist Dan Loeb, has recently accumulated a stake of over 5 million shares in Yahoo Inc and is supporting investor Carl Icahns proxy battle, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Third Point, which held 1 million shares in Yahoo as of March 31, may build a stake of up to 10 million shares in the company, the source said.

Icahns proxy contest, launched last week, is aimed at pressuring Yahoo to agree to be sold to Microsoft. The software maker broke off talks earlier this month after Yahoo rejected its offer to buy the company for $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, but the companies said Sunday they have revived talks.

Another investor said he was backing Icahn. Oil investor T. Boone Pickens told broadcaster CNBC he has acquired 10 million shares in Yahoo, saying: "(Icahn) jumps in first, I jump in behind him."

For his part, Loeb "strongly supports Icahn and supports his slate and thinks that he is shining a bright light on the botched process at the Yahoo board in negotiating the deal with Microsoft," said the source, who requested anonymity because Loebs position has not been publicly disclosed.

Loeb, known for his acerbic letters to senior officials of companies he deems to be underperforming, believes Yahoo should be sold to Microsoft.

"They havent laid out a game plan that gets you to the value of $33 to $34 per share on a stand-alone basis," this source said.

Paulson & Co, another large hedge fund, disclosed last week that it recently built up a stake of 50 million shares in Yahoo and is supporting the Icahn move.

All totaled, Icahn backers have acquired or plan to accumulate about 80 million Yahoo shares, or more than 5 percent of Yahoos nearly 1.4 billion shares outstanding, as of March 31. That does not include Icahns options to buy an additional 49 million Yahoo shares.

Yahoo shares closed down 20 cents, or 0.7 percent, at $27.48 on Nasdaq.

(Additional reporting by Daisuke Wakabayashi, editing by Derek Caney and Andre Grenon)


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