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May 14, 2012, 5:15 AM

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Yahoo! Pressroom:
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 …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Yahoo Chief Told Board He Has Cancer  —  Before resigning as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. over the weekend, Scott Thompson disclosed to the company's board of directors and several colleagues that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, according to people familiar with the matter.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Parting With Thompson Will Be for “Cause”  —  According to numerous sources, Yahoo is claiming “cause” in its parting with former CEO Scott Thompson, related to the fake computer science degree on his resume.  —  Such a determination will mean the company is not obligated to pay …
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Iran's Internet Filters Filter Out Leader's Screed Against Getting Around Filters  —  Well this would be funny if it weren't so sad and didn't involve mass censorship.  Iran has been getting a lot of attention lately for its plans to increase its internet filtering — and potentially even set up its own …
Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:
No, Snapchat Isn't About Sexting, Says Co-Founder Evan Spiegel  —  “The minute you tell someone that images on your server disappear, everyone jumps to sexting.”  —  Evan Spiegel laughed and leaned back into his chair during his first sitdown interview since his iPhone app Snapchat blew up over the last month.
Peter Kirwan / Wired.co.uk:
Nokia's last stand: can the 147-year-old company design its way back?  —  This article was taken from the June 2012 issue of Wired magazine.  Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
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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 …
Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
No More Breasts, Elephants, or SOPA: How Warren Adelman Is Saving Go Daddy's Soul  —  I'm sure someone somewhere has had a worse first week on a job than Warren Adelman.  But I am struggling to think of an example.  —  After nine years as the yin to the outlandish Bob …
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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