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A Ron Paul supporter resigns from the Electoral College because she is undecided about voting for Mitt Romney.

Zynga Inc's chief marketing officer has resigned, becoming the latest senior executive to depart the struggling social games company behind popular Facebook Inc games such as Farmville.

Zynga said Chief Creative Officer Mike Verdu has decided to leave the social gaming firm, one of several recent departures at the company as it has faced an erosion of investor confidence.

News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller will step down from his position as the company prepares to split its media and entertainment business from its publishing assets.

News Corp. said Thursday that chief digital officer Jonathan Miller would leave his job in September. Miller will stay on as an outside advisor through fall 2013. He took the role in 2009, focusing on both distribution and international investments, while also serving as the News Corp. representative on the board of Hulu.

Ross Levinsohn, the executive who served as Yahoo's interim chief, confirmed on Monday that he was leaving the Internet company after being passed over to fill the spot permanently.

A staff writer for The New Yorker has resigned and his best-selling book has been halted after he acknowledged inventing quotes by Bob Dylan. Jonah Lehrer released a statement Monday through his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, saying that some Dylan quotes appearing in "Imagine: How Creativity Works" did "not exist." Others were "unintentional misquotations, or represented improper combinations of previously existing quotes."

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a number of News Corp. boards overseeing his Britain newspapers, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday. He also quit from some of the media company's subsidiary boards in the United States.

Michaels Stores said John Menzer has resigned as CEO in order to focus on his recovery from a stroke he suffered in April.

Barclays said it would launch an independently led audit of its business practices as Chairman Marcus Agius confirmed he would resign amid a settlement over an interest-rate manipulation probe.