{"id":12187,"date":"2012-05-11T01:04:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2012-05-11T09:57:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T07:57:44","slug":"yahoo-ceo-never-gave-a-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/12187\/yahoo-ceo-never-gave-a-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo CEO never gave a resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Yahoo Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2002-Yahoo\">Yahoo Inc<\/a> Chief Executive <a title=\"Scott Thompson\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2005-Scott-Thompson\">Scott Thompson<\/a> never provided a resume or incorrect information to Yahoo, he told top executives at a meeting on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson held a meeting with his top people on Thursday to address a controversy over the educational background that erupted a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo acknowledged last week that Thompson, the former president of eBay Inc division PayPal, does not have a computer science degree, despite what was stated in his official company biography and in regulatory filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation has engulfed Yahoo in turmoil and raised questions about Thompson&#8217;s future at the struggling Internet company.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting on Thursday, Thompson gave an account of the facts as he understands them and provided executives with an opportunity to ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting marked Thompson&#8217;s most significant move to explain the situation to his top lieutenants.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Yahoo&#8217;s board appointed a special committee to investigate Thompson&#8217;s background and to review the &#8220;facts and circumstances&#8221; surrounding his hiring.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson sent an email to Yahoo employees earlier this week apologizing for the controversy and saying he hoped the board&#8217;s review would be concluded promptly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson never provided a resume or incorrect information to Yahoo, he told top executives at a meeting on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,177,147],"class_list":["post-12187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-scott-thompson","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12204,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187\/revisions\/12204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}