Jacksonville-based railroad CSX Corp. is attracting more attention from activist investors, with filings with the Security and Exchange Commission revealing that billionaire Carl Icahn purchased 2.6 million of the company's shares.

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Bob Chapman is pure gold.....

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Shares of Citi rose May 16 on news that hedge fund mogul Edward Lampert, the head of ESL Investments, had acquired a small stake in the market-lagging financial supermarket.

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Chrysler isn't the only car company where people want change....

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Carl Icahn's attempts to shakeup the board at Motorola by gaining a board seat and start moving the company in a different direction have failed.

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An in-depth article behind Boone Pickens, the legendary activist investor and takeover king.

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The world's largest mutual fund firm is about to take on an unlikely title: activist shareholder.

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This article supports Carl Icahn's view concerning Motorola's woes.

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Some shareholders are concerned about Marriott's board of directors despite their re-election. Shareholders re-elected to the board former Smithsonian Institution secretary Lawrence Small, who resigned from the museum complex last month following criticism over his expenses.

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Amid a dissident investor's attempt to win board seats, Comverse Technology Inc. has amended its bylaws to allow large, long-term shareholders to nominate directors to the company's board without the hassle and cost of waging a proxy fight.

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Pharmaceutical companies are turning to vaccines to grow because the market has few producers and a reduced risk of generic competition. Interest was spurred by the emergence of the deadly strain of bird flu in Asia with no vaccine to protect against it.

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High-profile investors such as Carl C. Icahn have helped define the image of activist shareholders by storming into companies and pushing for change.

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Carl Icahn has been on a tear lately. The corporate raider-turned-activist investor has basically run roughshod over corporate America in the past two years, taking no prisoners.

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Chapman Capital is at it again and the changes look promising.... A heated battle has been shaping up between electronic bond trading company eSpeed (ESPD - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) and activist investors Chapman Capital and WC Capital.

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A list of some of the characters in activist investing..... Activism is on the up - that much is for sure. But who in the world of sabre-rattling activist investing holds the most sway?

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Shares of Sprint Nextel Corp. (S.N: Quote, Profile, Research) rose 2.6 percent on Thursday after a report that a shareholder had built up a stake of nearly 1 percent and was calling for major changes at the No. 3 U.S. wireless service.

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The Wall Street Journal published an article this morning about disgruntled investor Ralph Whitworth, whos investment firm reportedly owns a $500 million stake, or almost 1%, of Sprint (Reuters report here).

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3i, the FTSE 100 buyout company, has hired investment bank Rothschild to explore raising a groundbreaking £1bn fund to invest in publicly quoted companies.

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The news came a day after the company filed its preliminary proxy for its annual meeting, advising shareholders not to vote for a slate of four directors offered by hedge fund Breeden Partners LP.

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The Carl Icahn shake-up continues.

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MBIA Inc., owner of the world's largest bond insurance company, should fire its top executives, return management bonuses and reimburse its insurance unit for losses related to tax liens, according to investor Pershing Square Capital Management LP.

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Mr. Shahbazian reacted temperamentally to Mr. Chapman with the eloquent response, "@!$%# you!" Mr. Chapman then forcefully informed Mr.

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This article is a pretty good summary of recent activist investor events. At the same time, this quote from a finance professor shows that no one is perfect. "Not every activist investor has a better strategy, even though they may think they do," Ritter said.

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Never before has the shadow of private equity loomed so large over companies listed on the London stock market. 'It is the sheer scale of what these firms are prepared to take on that has changed,' says Niall Paul, head of UK equities at Morley Fund Management.

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It's amazing what news like this does for a stock. Activist investors know how to unlock value (sometimes in sleazy ways, of course).

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