Chief executive of internet giant Yahoo! Scott Thompson has stepped down from his role after just four months at the helm after it was revealed that he had faked a qualification on his CV before he took the position.
As reported last week, Thompsons' degree in computer science was proved to be fabricated after an internal memo, seen by Reuters, seemed to confirm the speculation.
After pioneering the "dot-com boom" at the turn of the century, Yahoo! has struggled to keep pace as the giants of Google and Facebook have grown, and internal boardroom struggles such as this have become the norm as Yahoo! hires its fifth CEO in five years.
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