Thompson maybe out, but Yahoo still a mess

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Yahoo chief executive officer Scott Thompson, who has been caught in a resume gate, is leaving the company, reports AllThingsD . He is going to be replaced by Ross Levinsohn, who is currently global media head with the company, Kara Swisher adds

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ATD: Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson to step down amidst degree scandal

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While thousands upon thousands of Americans are celebrating graduation weekend with degree in hand, it looks as if the CEO of one particular internet company will be wondering why he lied about his. After weeks of investigating, word on the street has it that freshly appointed (as in January 4th ) CEO Scott Thompson will be "stepping down." In other words, he's being canned. The news comes from an All Things D report on the matter, with the official word expected soon.

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CTIA: The good, the bad and the very, very ugly

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I have a confession to make: I like CTIA Wireless. A lot of my colleagues in tech media are down on the show, saying that it’s dying . They’re right in one sense.

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Pornterest Vs. Pornstagram Vs. Tumblr’s #NSFW

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Wow,  Pinterest’s porn section  is fairly tame. I was just curious about the type of not-so-mommy-friendly content that might be popping up on what’s now  the third-most popular social network  after Facebook and Twitter. (Also I’m bored).

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No, Snapchat Isn’t About Sexting, Says Co-Founder Evan Spiegel

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“The minute you tell someone that images on your server disappear, everyone jumps to sexting.” Evan Spiegel laughed and leaned back into his chair during his first sitdown interview since his iPhone app Snapchat blew up over the last month. Snapchat  is #12 on the free iOS photo app charts in the U.S. and  just scored some mainstream media attention in The New York Times . Plus, we hear that Snapchat has also impressed Facebook’s internal product leadership and even Zuck himself

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Verizon stands up for its users in copyright lawsuit

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Verizon Communications has had a long history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it’s not a big surprise to see Big Red telling John Wiley’s lawyers to stuff it. Wiley is seeking information on the people behind IP addresses that Wiley says have pirated copies of its popular “For Dummies ” series. According to TorrentFreak , Verizon has argued that the request for subscriber information is flawed for several reasons, including that an IP address may lead to a name, but that name may not be the alleged pirate, and that the request seemed like it was designed to harass subscribers rather than achieve any legitimate legal goal

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Pew Study: 18% Of U.S. Smartphone Owners Use Check-In Apps

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According to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project , the popularity of check-in apps continues to grow, though it still isn’t quite mainstream yet. Pew’s latest survey found that in February 2012, 18% of U.S

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Where does Rocket get its money from?

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Cloning may annoy a lot of people, but it’s profitable and attracts funding accordingly. Berlin’s Rocket Internet is a case in point, with investments constantly pouring in for the many, many properties set up by the Samwer brothers . The latest gossip, which the incubator-cum-accelerator will unsurprisingly not discuss, is that billionaire Leonard Blavatnik has put $200m into Rocket via his Access Industries vehicle.

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What do sheep, Brazil & Facebook have in common?

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Dennis Crowley, chief executive and co-founder of New York based Foursquare believes that the real opportunity is when we are able to marry the physical and online worlds seamlessly . Slowly and surely we are seeing signs of that marriage happen around us.

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Adventures in big data: How AddThis’ Hydra works

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Clearspring, a social publishing platform, on Thursday changed its name to AddThis as part of an emphasis on the analytics side of its business. The company, which was formed in 2006 and provides those social sharing buttons that are ubiquitous across the web, also offered analytics services under the AddThis brand. But it realized that the data analytics had become the essential element for its customers and changed its name accordingly.

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