From: Steven Sinofsky < To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation(kgrnail.com> Subject: iCahn Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:50:12 +0000 Importance: Normal techblog view of Icahn's Apple raid. Hope all is well. We never talk :-) hup://www.theverge.com/2014/2/6/5385878/carl-icahn-apple-ebay-takeover-buyback Carl Icahn 2.0: an icon of '80s greed is back to shake up Silicon Valley The wild success and massive cash hoards of today's technology firms are perfect targets for this activist investor By Ben Popper an February 6. 2014 12:30 any For techies scanning the headlines over the past few months, one name has become an increasingly common occurrence: Carl Icahn, the legendary "vulture capitalist," who first made a name for himself during the leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s, which pillaged profitable corporations for personal profit. These days Icahn proudly wears the moniker "activist investor," and has been using his billions to shake things up at technology firms like Netflix, Dell, eBay and Apple. Why has one of the original "barbarians at the gate" returned to stir up trouble in tech? "Right now, tech companies are overflowing with cash and are extremely well-valued compared to other sectors," explains Joshua Brown, a veteran stock trader-turned-money manager. "Icahn is the one guy with enough money of his own to grab these companies by the lapel and say, 'Listen motherfucker, I'm not going away until you give me what I want.'" "ICAHN IS THE ONE GUY WITH ENOUGH MONEY OF HIS OWN TO GRAB THESE EFTA00652319