Yahoo's activist shareholder asks CEO Thompson to resign immediately

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of May 10, Yahoo radical shareholder Dan Le Boux (Dan Loeb) Wednesday again asked Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson (Scott Thompson) to resign immediately, and suggested that Yahoo CFO Tim Morse (Tim Morse) or global media director Ross ·　　Levinson (Ross Levinsohn) as interim CEO. In a scathing letter to Yahoo's board in Wednesday, Mr. Loeb said the board's current investigation into the hiring of Thompson as CEO was "very comical" and was recently found to have faked a diploma in education.　　Loeb asked Yahoo's board to quickly end the "massacre" that had begun. "The evidence suggests that Thompson has been using fake diplomas over the years," Mr. Loeb said in a letter, "Thompson's classic ' I'm sorry ' is not actually taking responsibility for his actions." "Third Point has invested more than 1 billion dollars in Yahoo, and we are not happy to witness the massacre," says Loeb. "The wanton destruction of the board's value must all stop."　　"Loeb suggested that Morse or Levin Thorn could be the CEO of Yahoo, and asked the leader to hire Thompson as CEO of the board member Pati Hart (Patti Hart) to return 15,000 of dollars in compensation.　　Yahoo said in Tuesday that it would set up a special committee to "thoroughly assess" Thompson's diploma and that it would no longer seek a second term as Yahoo's director. A Yahoo spokeswoman hasn't commented. (Xiao Ming)