Web gives voice to disgruntled investors

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Eric Jackson, a Yahoo shareholder, dreamed of influencing companies in the same way as billionaire financier Carl Icahn.

Icahn, one of the nation's top shareholder activists, forces change on underperforming companies by first buying up big blocks of shares. Jackson, CEO of a Naples, Fla.,-based consulting company (http://www.jacksonleadership.com/) lacks Icahn's resources. But last January, Jackson believed he had found another way to shake things up at Yahoo.

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