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With Marissa Mayer In Place, Yahoo’s Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn Officially Leaves The Company

Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch TV. Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. Earlier, Colleen reported for Mergermarket, an online newswire and subsidiary of the Financial Times focused on M&A. Before that, she was a contributing editor for Electronic News, the semiconductor industry trade newsletter. Colleen... ? Learn More After Scott Thompson’s unceremonious departure from Yahoo’s CEO spot earlier this year, Ross Levinsohn took over as the company’s interim chief executive — and for a while there, he was widely expected to eventually be named Yahoo’s permanent CEO. But, of course, that’s not what ended up happening. This month, Yahoo announced that longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer would take the CEO spot. And now it’s official that Levinsohn will not be sticking around to see how it plays out. His last day is tomorrow. The news was first reported in a post today by AllThingsD’s K...