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Scott Thompson to step down at Yahoo

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As always the only thing Engadget added to the article they're hijacking is links to more of their own rubbish and a long list of SEO spam tags.

http://allthingsd.com/20120513/exclusive-yahoos-thompson-out...

I wonder what impact this will have on the lawsuit war against Facebook. This was one of Scott Thompson's priorities while he was CEO, perhaps we will see a softening now that he is out?

Maybe this is in one of the stories but I missed these points:

1) Did he lie or did Yahoo? I thought I saw somewhere that at his previous position the degree in question wasn't listed.

2) If he added the degree, would it really have made a difference in the hiring decision? "No CS degree... pass"

1) It looks like he lied by not correcting the error made perhaps by someone else. 2) Nope, it is purely and ethical question.

I'll add that the "focus on commerce" idea was silly and I think that Ross will likely make a better CEO for Yahoo.

IIRC, it was in his official bio at PayPal for the past 10 years

1) From the Kara Shwisher article: "Sources said that Heidrick told Yahoo’s board that it was in possession of a resume that Thompson had apparently submitted showing the inaccurate CS degree on it."

2) The board brought this guy in to gut engineering and research among other departments, so I doubt they cared that he was an accountant. You don't need to be a genius to hand out pink slips.

2) That's what I was thinking, so a CS degree wouldn't matter. If Yahoo was worried about looking bad, my question has to be: "Why just now and not before?"

I am curious to see what competent, intelligent person with CEO experience would even want to take his place...it seems like the only people capable of turning Yahoo around most likely don't want to board that sinking ship.

I'm wondering when Yahoo won't rate the HN front page. Its all but irrelevant now; is it just their place in history that gives them some halo?

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=yahoo.com%2C+facebook.co... yahoo is big, traffic wise better than ever and ....... just mainstream. and even if we like it or not, IT wise, business wise the mainstream still matters.

Yahoo shouldn't have sued FB.

If he actually had studied computer science he might know the ridiculousness software patents. He may have also experienced the power of using software to solve big problems -- like the kind Yahoo has.

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