Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Resigns

Activist Yahoo shareholder and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb brought the truth about Thompson to light, discovering that the CEO did hold the financial degree he claimed on his resume, but not the computer science one. Normally, one would think that Thompson’s experience would make this a non-issue. As Greg Stirling pointed out, he had many years of experience as a successful tech executive in Silicon Valley…the paper was a technicality of sorts – not to minimize the ethics issue. Apparently it’s the ethics issue that Loeb couldn’t abide. He pushed hard, not letting the issue die; it bec…