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By Reuters | 30 May 2008 | 02:03 PM ET

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U.S. antitrust regulators have given billionaire investor Carl Icahn the go-ahead to purchase large blocks of Yahoo stock, the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday.

The FTC, which routinely looks at large stock purchases, said the moves were approved in a listing that it puts out several times a week.

In mid-May, Icahn launched a campaign to replace Yahoo's [YHOO Loading... () ] board with new directors that would reopen buyout talks with Microsoft [MSFT Loading... () ], saying the board had acted "irrationally" in refusing the software giant's bid.

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Microsoft walked away from its sweetened $47.5 billion offer for the Internet company earlier this month. Microsoft had initiated an unsolicited bid originally worth around $44.6 billion at the end of January, which Yahoo rejected as insufficient.

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