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Yahoo CEO Quitting: Report

Scott Thompson is out over faked resume: AllThingsD

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted May 13, 2012 11:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – Creative resume writing is not paying off for embattled Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who is about to step down from the tech giant's helm, reports Kara Swisher in an exclusive for AllThingsD. He'll likely be replaced by Yahoo's global media chief, Ross Levinsohn, who presumably has a squeaky-clean CV. Yahoo's board, meanwhile, is nearing a settlement with shareholder Daniel Loeb, who discovered Thompson's claim to a computer science degree was bogus. Loeb will get three of four board seat selections he proposed. The board is meeting today.

In this Nov. 15, 2010 photo, Scott Thompson, who is in some hot water over a computer science degree he doesn't have.
In this Nov. 15, 2010 photo, Scott Thompson, who is in some hot water over a computer science degree he doesn't have.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
In this Nov.15, 2010 file photo, Scott Thompson, who is in some hot water over a computer science degree that he doesn't have.
In this Nov.15, 2010 file photo, Scott Thompson, who is in some hot water over a computer science degree that he doesn't have.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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carson
May 13, 2012 12:38 PM CDT
i had a lot of fun with yahoo...but they gradually took all the fun right out of themselves...getting rid of user rooms because they couldnt police themselves from child porn...while allowing bots to over run their system until all their chat rooms were impossible to communicate in...every update removed a useful feature or complicated its use...i guess the time of chat rooms is gone...but i did enjoy them...and without them yahoo is nothing to me

 
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