Yahoo’s Biggest Investor, Capital World Investors, Doubles Stake In Company

By Barry Schwartz

Published: April 10, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Yahoo’s largest investor doubles down from News.com reports Capital World Investors has doubled their stake in Yahoo, giving them a 10.1% percent stake in the company.

Capital World Investors was Yahoo’s largest investor, and obviously still is. They now own 135,542,600 shares as of March 31, up 95-percent from the end of last year.

Just when you thought the news of Yahoo may make for a slow news day for the 24 hour period, we get this news. Here is a brief summary of Yahoo news over the past 24 hours or so:

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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