According to the report, which originated on the CNBC cable channel, Icahn began building a significant position in Yahoo!
Building a market position from scratch is a daunting challenge, of course.
Its main focus has been building a powerful position in the telecoms infrastructure industry, making equipment for the rollout of 3G and 4G networks.
By building a swing position while also maneuvering intraday, I will capture the move even if it plays out in an unorthodox manner, something that has become commonplace in this market.
Recognising that much of the innovation is now in the mobile computing area, Lenovo has been building a strong position in China's smartphone and tablet market, and is now moving into other territories.
"We are building a leadership position in the conversion of diesel, gasoline and LPG fuels to LNG in Europe, developing a competitive alternative to LNG terminal supply with portable, small-scale LNG fueling solutions for long-haul trucking and small remote energy centers, " said Davor Grcevich, Gasfin managing director.
The transaction will make Sky the second-largest provider in the UK broadband market, building on its existing position as the UK's fastest-growing broadband and telephony business.
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Dr Andrew Taylor, the Director of Isis, says it achieved its world leading position by building upon the achievements of the accelerators developed for particle physics in the 1970s.
Roz parked the shuttle, walked inside the building, and took her position behind the front desk.
Called "Motion DNA", the patent-pending software developed by Navisens detects a person's realistic location and position inside a building in 3D and in real time.
Overall, Johnson Controls with its advanced product portfolio, manufacturing facilities at Guangzhou and Wuxi, an engineering center at Wuxi and 37 branch offices providing servicing, is well-positioned to maintain its leadership position in the building market of China.
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And finally, as labour-market and other reforms (however modest) in Europe have slowly eased the way towards a genuine single market, firms are understandably focusing on building a stronger pan-European competitive position.
Inside the tech industry, companies eager to tap into all that excitement and potential revenue and brand-building are tripping over each other to position themselves as not just cloud providers but as real cloud providers, official cloud providers, the one-and-only-true cloud provider, and even as Wikipedia-approved cloud providers.
"The scale, position and unique nature of the building lead us to believe it played a key role in shipbuilding activities, " he added.
John Sifton, the group's Asia advocacy director, also noted none of the factories in the Rana Plaza were unionized, and had they had been, workers would have been in a better position to refuse to enter the building on Wednesday.
The natural inclination of someone looking to get hired or move up the career ladder after being in the same position for years, is to begin building off where they are or left off.
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And given his track record of building successful information security companies, Kramer is likely to position Imperva to be a leader in protecting companies against the new threat environment.
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Building and maintaining your credibility via your messaging and servicing will also position you well for the future, regardless of what the economy is doing.
There are few things more terrifying than searching a building in the dark with your gun drawn at the low ready position, and watching your flashlight fade to black.
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Among those moves was the hiring of Guillen, who in his previous managerial position with the Chicago White Sox had developed a reputation for building winning teams and, from time to time, making headlines with blunt remarks.
As a result of our investment and execution in the platform, today we are in a much better position to continue to innovate for our customers while we remain focused on building the most complete e-commerce ecosystem in the region, which we believe is still only a fraction of what it will become.
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It should also be seen as a confidence-building indication in light of the report that billionaire George Soros has been selling his gold position.
Pakistan has found itself in an awkward position as it tries to cope with the political, military and humanitarian crisis building in the region.
Optical correlators, meanwhile, work by encoding images on to a beam of light and, using a special lens, transforming them into their Fourier components building-blocks that encode the thickness and direction of lines in the image, but not their position.
My platoon was going to be fast roping directly onto a platform a couple hundred yards from the main building and my first task was to control the fast rope and direct the pilots into the right position and elevation.
Chemist Gregory Verdine was a Harvard professor with a position at a venture fund, but neither job was helping get his new project--building a vast database of natural chemicals that might work as drugs--the money it needed to take off.
Spokesman John Hart says it's a position Coburn has consistently held regarding federal spending on disasters dating to the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.
In one pastel, Degas evoked the thrilling height of the suspended figure with sketchy indications of the building's iron framework in vivid blue, as in the painting, but he experimented briefly with the position of the feet, pushing the front leg and the pointed foot, in its decorative boot, forward to create an emphatic vertical gesture in the lower part of the image.
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Through three decades of summits, conferences, common initiatives and consensus-building, the organization has reduced tensions among Southeast Asian nations and elevated the nine as a group to an enviable position of influence in the continent, if not the world.
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