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Exclusive: Yahoo's Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion — Yahoo's embattled CEO Scott Thompson (pictured here) is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be a dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science degree …
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Yahoo! Names Fred Amoroso Chairman and Appoints Ross Levinsohn Interim CEO — Board Announces Settlement with Third Point LLC — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced that the Board of Directors has named Fred Amoroso as Chairman of the Board of Directors …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Here's New Yahoo CEO's First Note to Troops! (The Leaking-Internal-Memos-to-ATD Policy Remains in Effect As Usual) — Here is the first missive to Yahoo's troops from new interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, which I obtained from 653 sources at the company. (Joke alert! Sort of!)| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Meet Yahoo's New Interim Chief, Ross Levinsohn — Yahoo's revolving door of chief executives has turned again. — Scott Thompson, Yahoo's chief executive of just four months, will leave following a growing controversy over his embellished academic record, according to people briefed on the matter.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
The Apple-Intel-Samsung Ménage à Trois — Fascinating doesn't do justice to the spectacle, nor to the stakes. Taken in pairs, these giants exchange fluids - products and billion$ - while fiercely fighting with their other half. Each company is the World's Number One in their domain …
| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
What Eduardo Saverin owes America. (Hint: Nearly everything.) — When Eduardo Saverin was 13, his family discovered that his name had turned up on a list of victims to be kidnapped by Brazilian gangs. Saverin's father was a wealthy businessman in São Paulo, and it was inevitable …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic — Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business. — Billions in revenue are lost each year, they claim. But not for long if the Russian based startup “Pirate Pay” has its way.
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| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Disruptions: Facebook's Real-Life ‘Spidey Sense’ — Imagine if you had a superpower that would allow you to peer into the future of the Internet? It's a pretty nerdy power compared to Spider-Man's web-slinging, but you could use this superhuman ability to see what would be popular soon, and in some instances, change the future.| Scott Hanselman: |
The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore … What happens when all the things we based our icons on don't exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery? — Floppy Disk - Save — Save? Save where?
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Iran forbids banks and other firms from corresponding with users of Gmail and other foreign email services — Iran has continued its online crackdown, and its move towards a national Internet, by introducing a new regulation that instructs banks, insurances firms and telecom companies … | Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
HBO's ‘Game Of Thrones’ On Track To Be Crowned Most Pirated Show Of 2012 — Brace yourselves, HBO. The pirates are coming. — With its popularity swelling and no easy way to watch for viewers without cable, HBO's hit series “Game of Thrones” is inspiring massive levels of piracy …
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