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Activist Starboard Buys Back Into AOL Amid Yahoo Deal Campaign
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Starboard Value LP, the activist hedge fund run by Jeff Smith, acquired a new stake in AOL Inc. as it campaigns for changes at Yahoo! Inc. including a possible combination of the web portals.
The fund bought 1.92 million shares -- about 2.4 percent of AOL -- during the third quarter, according to a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Starboard also revealed it owns 7.72 million Yahoo shares, a stake of less than 1 percent.