Cooking The Books: Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson?s CS Degree ?Error? Should Cost Him The Job

"You guys might want to cover this before he resigns tomorrow," one hardcore reader emailed in this evening. And yes indeed, newish Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's "inadvertent error" about which degree he got in college is looking like it could cost him his new job. It should. After a day of TechCrunch covering companies who are busy pushing the world forward -- like Facebook and its big IPO plans -- here's our obligatory late-night story about the guy who is, uh, suing the massive social network over some old patents that are supposedly infringing on the aging web portal.

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