{"id":28992,"date":"2012-05-14T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T11:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28992"},"modified":"2012-05-14T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T11:46:47","slug":"yahoo-ceo-thompson-quits-amid-furor-over-bogus-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/yahoo-ceo-thompson-quits-amid-furor-over-bogus-resume.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo CEO Thompson Quits Amid Furor Over Bogus Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson today stepped down, two weeks after activist hedge fund manager Dan Loeb ignited a controversy over Thompson\u2019s embellished resume.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson will be replaced in the interim by Ross Levinsohn, the company\u2019s global head of media, Yahoo said today. Yahoo has also struck a deal to end Loeb\u2019s proxy fight. It will name him, turnaround guru Harry Wilson and media executive Michael J. Wolf to the board this week. Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso will become Yahoo\u2019s board chairman. In return, Loeb, who controls 5.8% of the company through his hedge fund, Third Point, will withdraw his previous nominees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/abrambrown\/2012\/05\/13\/yahoo-ceo-plans-to-quit-as-company-tries-to-appease-hedge-fund-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson today stepped down, two weeks after activist hedge fund manager Dan Loeb ignited a controversy over Thompson\u2019s embellished resume. Thompson will be replaced in the interim by Ross Levinsohn, the company\u2019s global head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28994,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992\/revisions\/28994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}