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Before Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney could even introduce his pick for “Next President of the United States,” progressive superPAC American Bridge was on the attack against vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan , publishing a research book on the Wisconsin congressman that includes excruciating details encompassing Ryan’s childhood allowance guidelines, and his stint as driver of the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile. Romney opponents can have hours of fun sifting through the contents of MeetPaulRyan.com, which features exhaustive research on new VP pick Paul Ryan, and hours of tracking footage, some of which will surely end up on cable news shows in the days ahead. One factoid from early in the paper is rather comical in its presentation: Ryan’s Allowance Was Cut For Bad Grades – According to CNN Money, “Ryan’s parents put the kids on an incentive system for allowances — if they got just one B on their report cards, their allowance was cut from $4 to $2, and a C meant no al...

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...