Interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn has wanted to run a company like Yahoo his entire career. Former colleagues and employees say he'll bring candor and a likable personality to the job.
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Most young people fresh to the workforce still must observe some basic rules of etiquette. Steve Jobs may have gotten away with not bathing and screaming at employees during his youth (and later on), but most people can't behave this way and survive.
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An unusual mentoring relationship at NASA is behind the open source version of cloud computing, an effort that could upend Amazon as king of a Web services industry expected to grow to $20 billion in three years.
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Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, forged strong alliances with executives at Madison Avenue agencies that represent the biggest ad spenders, setting him apart from his predecessors, who had no ad experience.
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The strange and terrible Scott Thompson saga (WSJ), the Air Force general who brought NASA to the cloud (FINS), Facebook co-founder renounces citizenship (Bloomberg) and more. For all the news you need throughout the day, follow techFINSider on Twitter and Facebook.
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Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson agreed to resign over misstatements in his official bio that claimed he had a degree in computer science, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Palo Alto, Calif. start-up Tango will hire up to 100 new employees over the next 12 to 18 months after raising $40 million in new venture capital financing last month. Tango makes an application that allows smartphone users to video chat on the go.
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Microsoft's new search engine raises eyebrows (The Verge), FTC investigates Facebook's Instagram acquisition (Financial Times), Mitt Romney hiring technologists (ClickZ) and more. For all the news you need throughout the day, follow techFINSider on Twitter and Facebook.
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