Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson may not be quite the academic he professed to be. The excitedly-punctuated Sunnyvale company admitted today that, just four months into Thompson's tenure, their CEO's resume listed a degree in Computer Science that the executive never received during his time as an undergrad at Stonehill College. more ›

After a four-month search, teetering tech company Yahoo announced their new CEO today, Scott Thompson, the president of eBay's PayPal division. Thompson follows feisty and f-word friendly Carol Bartz, who was released from her duties in September. According to Wired, Thompson "has his work cut out for him." more ›

As SFist mentioned yesterday, Hewlett-Packard went ahead and hired former Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman as their new CEO. The HP board went ahead and fired Leo Apotheker after just 11 months on the job. Prior a disastrous bid for California--she wasted "a record breaking $43 per voter to lose the California gubernatorial election," notes Ryan Tate--Whitman was once the CEO at eBay. She also once famously (and allegedly) shoved one of her employees. more ›

Raising concerns again about his health, 55-year-old CEO Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence while remaining involved in “major strategic decisions” for Apple. Yikes. Jobs announced the decision in the following email to employees: more ›

Uh oh. According to AP, "Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company, succumbing to nearly a year of strife that followed his company's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co." This comes on the heels of his shareholders castrating stripping Lewis of his title away earlier this year. Now based in Charlottle, North Carolina, BofA has a corporate office at 555 California. more ›

Former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz, 56, has accepted Yahoo's offer to becoming their brand spanking new CEO, at least according to the Wall Street Journal. This comes after Yahoo has seen a sharp drop in its stock price, and CEO and founder Jerry Wang decided to step down from the throne. Bartz is currently the executive chairman of Autodesk. She has also been an executive at Sun Microsystems, and sits on the board of Cisco, along with Yang.
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