Yahoo chief out over resume padding
San Francisco - Yahoo parted ways Sunday with recently installed chief executive Scott Thompson amid questions about a computer science degree that appears on his resume, but which he apparently never earned.
Thompson will be replaced as chairman of the board and interim chiefex ecutive by the internet firm's global media chief Ross Levinsohn, the company said in a statement. Board chairman Roy Bostock is being replaced by Fred Amoroso, the company added.
Yahoo did not give any reason for the change, saying simply that Thompson "has left the company."
The executive shake-up marks yet another debacle for the struggling internet pioneer, which has been striving for years to come up with a plan to help it regain the position of web supremacy it has long since lost to younger more spritely rivals such as Google and Facebook.
The move followed several days of turmoil after a prominent investor Third Point LLC, which owns some 6 per cent of the company, uncovered that Thompson had not earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science that was listed in his resume.//DPA
