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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson reportedly will step down Sunday amid controversy over mentions on his resume and in regulatory filings of a computer science degree he never received.

AOL is considering the sale of TechCrunch, Engadget and other sites in its AOL Tech chanel, according to PandoDaily, which attributes the information to two independent sources. The story, by PandoDaily founder Sarah Lacy, a former writer for TechCrunch, says AOL is seeing $70 million to $100 million for the collection of AOL's tech sites ...

Yahoo Inc director Patti Hart will not seek re-election to Yahoo's board, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the Internet company finds itself engulfed in a controversy over its new chief executive's educational background.

Yahoo’s chief executive Scott Thompson apologized to the company’s employees Monday, but did not say he has plans to step down. Thompson has been under fire since an investor vying for control of the company, Daniel Loeb, sent a letter Thursday to Yahoo’s board about the executive’s academic record. Yahoo later confirmed that while Thompson had listed a degree in computer science in his biography, he had never been awarded that degree.

Activist hedge fund investor Third Point, which has called for Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson's ouster over resume padding, sent a legal letter to the internet company demanding it provide access to all documents relating to the hiring of the CEO.

The good news for Arianna Huffington is that she gets to keep her share of the $315 million that AOL shelled out for her website. The bad news is her duties as editrix of the once-mighty Web conglomerate are being scaled back. Way back.

Yahoo Inc could be weeks away from selling 15 to 25 percent of Alibaba Group's stock back to China's largest e-commerce company, in a deal designed to eliminate complexities that had scuttled the parties' previous negotiations, a person familiar with the matter said.

Mistakes pile atop of mistakes for Scott Thompson in computer science degree controversy.

A disgruntled Yahoo shareholder questioned the qualifications and integrity of recently hired CEO Scott Thompson after exposing a misrepresentation about the executive's education.

Yahoo said its new chief executive, Scott Thompson, didn't earn a degree in computer science as stated in a recent securities filing, citing an "inadvertent error."