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Ex-Yahoo CEO Reportedly Has Cancer

Former Yahoo and Pay Pal CEO Scott Thompson

The Wall Street Journal reports that shortly before stepping down as CEO, Scott Thompson told Yahoo's board that he was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

By Connor Simpson

May 13, 2012

Scott Thompson to Resign from Yahoo

A little over four months since starting the job, a fudged resume is forcing Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's to announce will step down from his position for "personal reasons" on Monday.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

May 11, 2012

Yahoo CEO Uses Lame Excuse for Résumé Lies

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has pulled a Jonah Goldberg to explain away the résumé scandal that's surrounded him this week. Like Goldberg, who blamed his publisher for touting two Pulitzer Prize nominations he was never received, Thomspon is claiming someone else fudged his credentials.

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By Adam Martin

May 8, 2012

Yahoo Board Member Is the First to Fall in CEO's Resume Scandal

Someone had to take a fall in the scandal over Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's faked company bio, and the first to go is Patti Hart, the Yahoo director who led the search that got Thompson hired in the first place.

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By Adam Clark Estes

May 3, 2012

Activist Investor Angry About Yahoo CEO's Fudged Résumé

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is only four months into his big job running one of the world's largest tech companies, and he's already found himself in a scandal—and it's a sort of funny scandal at that.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 4, 2012

Yahoo's New CEO Is a Huge Geek

Regardless of the various interpretations about how and why it ended up at the decision, it looks fairly certain that Yahoo will benefit by putting a big huge nerd like Scott Thompson at its helm.

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By Dino Grandoni

Jan 4, 2012