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SAN FRANCISCO – The newest chief Yahoo, interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, has carved a career out of making deals. Yahoo's new interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, speaks at the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Yahoo's new interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, speaks at t Full Article at USA Today

For most people, a resume helps land them a job. For Scott Thompson, it's what seems to have cost him his as CEO of Yahoo. The Sunnyvale, CA-based company said on Sunday that Thompson has stepped down and named Ross Levinsohn his interim replacement. All Full Article at MediaWeek

Yahoo's CEO resume circus keeps getting more ridiculous. But the real joke is the company's beleagured board of directors, say anaysts. The Web portal announced on Tuesday (May 8) that it has formed a special committee to review CEO Scott Thompson’s hiri Full Article at AdWeek

You may not know this but Yahoo still operates a product called Yahoo Small Business, which provides SMBs and sites with web hosting, domain name registration, web site design templates, e-commerce solutions and more. In fact, Yahoo says that it has help Full Article at TechCrunch

Facebook had a choice to make: pay off Yahoo with gobs of money and remain vulnerable to other patent trolls, or make a long-term investment into an intellectual property portfolio it could protect itself with for years to come. Facebook wisely took the Full Article at TechCrunch

Just say no. That 1980s mantra may sound appealing to companies that have received hostile takeover bids if they stopped to consider the fate of some other targets that recently spurned unwanted suitors. Shares of Airgas are trading at about $91 a share, Full Article at The New York Times

Yahoo today reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2012, and after three years of declining annual revenue numbers, the company looks like it may just be on track to stop the streak — or at least slow it down. Yahoo reported first quarte Full Article at TechCrunch

One would guess that the big Yahoo layoff-reorganization includes a culling of some the company’s weaker properties — and yes, we’re hearing today that this includes Music and possibly Movies, popular sites that don’t monetize well. Word has been leaking Full Article at TechCrunch

Yahoo has confirmed a report by AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher published Tuesday that the company would begin laying off roughly 2,000 employees today (April 4). The company's recently installed CEO Scott Thompson said in a statement that layoffs are part of Full Article at AdWeek

Facebook has executed a masterful response to Yahoo’s patent trolling that protects it legally but still makes it look like the victim. Here I examine how for almost every patent Yahoo claims Facebook infringes upon, the social network has countersued wi Full Article at TechCrunch

The head of Third Point, Daniel S. Loeb, would like Yahoo to know that he is concerned about the technology company’s long-term health, and is not pursuing an activist campaign just to generate short-term profit. In a letter to Yahoo’s chief executive, S Full Article at The New York Times

NEW YORK, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Third Point LLC, owners of 5.8% of Yahoo! (NASD: YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson: As we discussed, Third Point LLC ("Third Point"), Yahoo!'s largest o Full Article at PR Newswire

Today, the activity continues, as Yahoo has announced that it is appointing three new independent board directors, whose roles become effective on April 5th. This is all in spite of the fact that Dan Loeb and Third Point have been trying to drum up share Full Article at TechCrunch

Started originally as a ridesharing service, then pivoting to become a document uploading and reading service, Scribd now has 100 million registered users, with 90 million monthly active users. That makes it probably the biggest effort of its kind, but l Full Article at TechCrunch

If the other patents are ruled invalid for being too broad to enforce, it’s maybe this Patent 7406501 that could stick. Facebook could need a separate defense or answer to this complaint, or it could be forced into a settlement to close the case prior it Full Article at TechCrunch

Yahoo has reportedly filed a patent suit against Facebook, saying that the social network is infringing on technologies that are the “foundation of our business.” It had been previously reported that Yahoo had demanded that Facebook pay licensing fees fo Full Article at The Washington Post

Yahoo’s new chief executive, Scott Thompson, is reportedly preparing to overhaul the structure at the Internet giant, which could include thousands of layoffs. That’s the latest report from All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher, who cites “multiple sources b Full Article at The Washington Post

So today we reached out to Gill to get his insights on the Yahoo/Facebook patent situation, now that things have finally started to come to a head. He was working at a conference in Washington DC, but we were able to catch him for a Skype interview from Full Article at TechCrunch