Newspaper wrap-up 7-12-07: Whole Foods Market CEO in trouble

MAJOR PAPERS:

The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported that John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc (NASDAQ: WFMI), used a pseudonym to blog about his company on Yahoo message boards for eight years, including panning rival Wild Oats Markets Inc (NASDAQ: OATS), which Whole Foods is trying to buy.
Carl Icahn's American Real Estate Partners new offer of $37.25 a share for Lear Corp. (NYSE: LEA), supported by the Lear board, has been rejected by proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Service, reported the Wall Street Journal.
Barron's Online's (subscription required) "Inside Scoop" column reported that two institutional investors, Buckingham Capital Investment and Morgan Stanley, have sold about 3.2M shares of Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc (NYSE: BBW), as they feel the company won't get much more of a premium as a takeover target, if private equity is still even interested at all.
JP Morgan Chase and Company (NYSE: JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) have obtained key roles advising Apollo Management on its expected IPO, reported the Financial Times (subscription required).

OTHER PAPERS:

According to representatives from Congress, exclusivity deals like Apple Inc's (NASDAQ: AAPL) multi-year iPhone contract with phone provider AT&T Inc (NYSE: T) trap customers, forcing the users to stay with the providers as long as they want to continue using certain devices, reported AppleInsider.com.

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