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Paying More for WaMu: A Washington Mutual shareholder has discovered a way to get JP Morgan to pay more for the bank. No Fishing With Chase: JP Morgan Chase sent out an email recently inviting customers to go on a fishing trip. There isn't a trip, according to Dealbreaker. GM's IPO: General Motors finally filed for their long-awaited IPO. The automaker isn't selling shares but the U.S. Treasury is. Yahoo Loses Engineer: Sandeep Gupta, who heads up mobile app development at Yahoo, has resigned. Gupta also worked at Apple in charge of iPod software, says TechCrunch. Duquesne's Druckenmiller Retiring: Stanley Druckenmiller, known as the architect behind George Soros' famous bet against the British pound, is closing his hedge fund firm.