Published on 31st July 2012
Media veteran Ross Levinsohn is leaving Yahoo, two weeks after being passed over for the chief executive's job. The executive, whose experience straddles technology and entertainment, had been most recently serving as the Internet company's interim CEO since the ouster of Scott Thompson in May -- and was considered by many on Wall Street to be the candidate to beat. But he lost out to one of the top executives at Google, Marissa Mayer, whose appointment was considered a coup for Yahoo. [Los Angeles Times]