On October 25, 2006, a group led by billionaire investor Carl Icahn acquired a majority of stock thereby giving him control of the board.

On February 7, 2006, a group led by Icahn and Lazard Frères CEO Bruce Wasserstein unveiled a 343-page proposal calling for the breakup of Time Warner into four companies and stock buybacks totaling approximately $ 20 billion.

In early 2006, after a contentious bidding war started by investor Carl Icahn.

* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

After years of operating profits at Community Newspaper and losses at the Herald, Purcell in 2006 sold the suburban chain to newspaper conglomerate Liberty Group Publishing of Illinois, which soon after changed its name to GateHouse Media.

In the United Kingdom, DSG ( Dixons ), the largest retailer of domestic electronic equipment, reported that CRT models made up 80 – 90 % of the volume of televisions sold at Christmas 2004 and 15 – 20 % a year later, and that they were expected to be less than 5 % at the end of 2006.

Coro performed in WKTU's well-received " Beatstock " concert in 2006, and the 2008 " Freestyle Extravaganza " concert sold out Madison Square Garden.

Since then the game has sold millions of copies and in LMA Manager 2006, Lineker voices news items and the cup draws on the game.

By 2006, the Hummer began to be exported and sold through importers and distributors in 33 countries.

* In 2006 the Company sold Quest International, its flavours and Fragrances business, to Givaudan, for £ 1. 2 billion and Uniqema, its textile auxiliaries business, to Croda International, for £ 410 million.

On December 4, 2006, one of Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitars with a sunburst design was sold at a Christie's auction for US $ 168, 000.

Following a 2006 season in which they missed the playoffs, Lamar Hunt sold the club in August 2006 to OnGoal, LLC, a six-man ownership group led by Cerner Corporation co-founders Neal Patterson and Cliff Illig, a local group committed to keeping the Wizards in Kansas City.

By 2006 it had sold 23 million copies in the United States alone.

In July 2006, Wired News, which had been part of Lycos since the purchase of Wired Digital in 1998, was sold to Condé Nast Publications and re-merged with Wired Magazine.

The Lycos Finance division, best known for Quote. com and Raging Bull. com, was sold to FT Interactive Data Corporation in February 2006, while its online dating site, Matchmaker. com, was sold to Date. com.

By 2006, most of the collection had been sold off and the museum was on a time-out ; by 2010 Rooseum had been dismantled and a subsidiary of the national Museum of Modern Design inaugurated in its place.

According to Semico, over four billion 8-bit microcontrollers were sold in 2006.

Just prior to the start of the 2006 NFL season, the Raiders revealed that they had sold 37, 000 season tickets, up from 29, 000 the previous year.

Despite the team's 2-14 record, they sold out six of their eight home games in 2006.

According to the data of the China Bicycle Association, a government-chartered industry group, in 2004 China's manufacturers sold 7. 5 million electric bicycles nationwide, which was almost twice 2003 sales ; domestic sales reached 10 million in 2005, and 16 to 18 million in 2006.

Despite finishing with a 6 – 10 record in the 2005 – 2006 season, the Eagles ranked second in the NFL in merchandise sales, and single-game tickets for the next season were sold out minutes after phone and Internet lines opened.

On April 1, 2006, Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home was sold to Arvin Starrett and E. Casey Rose ( who was managing the firm at the time ) and the name was changed to Starrett-Rose Funeral Home.

Dora Maar au Chat sold for US $ 95. 2 million at Sotheby ’ s on 3 May 2006.

The PowerBook is a line of Macintosh laptop computers that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1991 to 2006.

Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God set out to break the new band in by performing a successful sold out series of dates of Australia in 2005 and then in 2006 returned to the US to promote their new release My Hand, My Heart with another sold-out US Tour and major press, radio and television appearances.

When he was 20, he sold the company to Harcourt, Brace & World for $ 100, 000 ( roughly $ 500, 000 in 2006 dollars ) plus royalties.

On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.

In 2006, it was reported that Davis had been attempting to sell the 31 % ownership stake in the team obtained from the McGah family.

In 2006, Etisalat International Pakistan, a wholly owned subsidiary of Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, purchased a 26 % stake in PTCL and assumed management control of the company.

As of June 2006, the Porsche AG stake in VW AG had risen to 25. 1 %, giving Porsche a blocking minority, whereby Porsche can veto large corporate decisions undertaken by VW AG.

During the 2006 Riksdag elections the new Alliance for Sweden ( which subsequently won the election, to form a coalition government ) stated a policy aim to sell its stake in TeliaSonera.

In November 2006, the government sold an additional 33 % stake, with the remaining 17 % being placed in a Future Fund, of which the Commonwealth is the primary shareholder.

In 2006, the ball club was sold to Joe Finley and Craig Stein, while Pecor maintained a minority stake.

It was announced in April 2006 that partners from Michigan had purchased a 50 % stake in Oak Island Tours Inc., for an undisclosed amount of money.

* 21 December 2010: The Financial Times reported that the A $ 69 billion (£ 44 billion ) Future Fund, a sovereign wealth fund set up by the Australian government in 2006, intended to buy a 17. 2 % stake in Gatwick Airport from GIP for £ 145 million.

In October 2006 it was announced that DHL would be acquiring a 49 % stake in Polar, with that deal now finalised.

In December 2006, Matsushita entered talks with Kenwood and Cerberus Capital Management to sell its stake in JVC.

On April 4, 2006, Suge Knight filed bankruptcy due to civil litigation against him in which Lydia Harris claimed to have been cheated out of a 50 % stake in Death Row Records.

In November 2006, NTL announced that it had approached commercial television broadcaster ITV about a proposed merger BSkyB effectively blocked the merger on 12 November 2006, when it controversially bought a 17. 9 % stake in ITV plc, a move that attracted anger from NTL shareholder Richard Branson and an investigation from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom.

Although PCCW's substantial shareholder China Netcom had earlier expressed objection to any disposal of key assets to foreign groups, it also refused to increase its stake ; Richard Li attempted to exit from the business in 2006.

PCCW chairman Richard Li has agreed to sell his indirectly held 22. 66 percent stake in PCCW on 11 July 2006 to Fiorlatte Ltd, a new startup company wholly owned by Francis Leung Pak-to, for a total consideration of HK $ 9. 16 billion.

NASDAQ later pulled its bid, and less than two weeks later on 11 April 2006, struck a deal with LSE's largest shareholder, Ameriprise Financial's Threadneedle Asset Management unit, to acquire all of that firm's stake, consisting of 35. 4 million shares, at £ 11. 75 per share.

On 20 November 2006, within a month or two of the expiration of this period, NASDAQ increased its stake to 28. 75 % and launched a hostile offer at the minimum permitted bid of £ 12. 43 per share, which was the highest NASDAQ had paid on the open market for its existing shares.

In November 2006, Halliburton began selling its stake in KBR, its major subsidiary, and by February 2007 had completely sold off the subsidiary.

In 2006 Mubadala Development, acquired a 35 % stake Piaggio Aero Industries S. p. A. Mubadala Development Company is a wholly owned investment vehicle of the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

In July 2006 the Rainiers were sold to the Dallas-based Schlegel Sports Group, giving pop star Nick Lachey a one-third stake in the team.

Less than a year later in 2006, Walmart increased its stake to 51 % and changed the name to Walmart Centroamérica.