NEW YORK -- Calling the performance of Mentor Graphics' management "abysmal," Casablanca Capital today called on fellow shareholders of the embattled EDA software firm to support an alternate slate of directors.

WILSONVILLE, OR -- Carl Icahn was at it again yesterday, spelling out in even greater detail his case for shaking up the leadership of Mentor Graphics.

WILSONVILLE, OR -- Saying disgruntled shareholder Carl Icahn "has no stated strategy," Mentor Graphics yesterday urged other stockholders to reject the activist investor's slate of board candidates.

AUSTIN, TX -- National Instruments announced its 2011 Green Engineering Grant program, a worldwide competition to foster rapid design, prototyping and commercialization of promising new renewable energy, energy efficiency and smart grid systems.