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yahoo has a fresh coat of CEO iCloud gets a lift and Wall Street is buzzing about Facebook I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it's a new day and a new leader for Yahoo after four months on the job Scott Thompson resigned as Yahoo's chief executive regarding the scandal about how he made false statements about his education for several years Thompson's bio stated that he graduated with both an accounting and computer science degree but he never went to school for computer science but there's more to the story the wall street journal reports that last week during the investigation Thompson told the board he has thyroid cancer and his health is part of the reason he wants to step down Yahoo's new interim chief is Ross Levinsohn he was in charge of Yahoo's advertising strategy Levinson is Yahoo 6 CEO in the past five years the job seems to be a revolving door at Yahoo let's see if Levinson can change that it's time for some apple rumors and speculations best buy has just discounted all mac computers and chances are it means the store is making room for some new models there's been talk of a new line of MacBook Pros coming out they would have the latest Intel processors beef in like the macbook air and could even have retina displays and sources at I'm or say the iPhone 5 is coming out in October but before you roll your eyes at this this is actually the latest in several reports we've heard about an October release so maybe there's something actually to this October launch rumor and the wall street journal reports that apple is planning to update iCloud so you can comment on and share photos with other I cloud users right now I cloud is just restoring your files and syncing them with your own devices not for sharing with others this is a historical week for tech on Wall Street Facebook is set to launch one of the largest initial public offerings in history on Friday and when Facebook goes public you can expect the company to focus on new ways to make money we previously reported on a new feature Facebook was testing charging you two dollars if you want your status to be seen by more friends we asked if you would pay for something like that and here's a few responses we got on tout absolutely not I think that would turn facebook into a paid service like eHarmony which is basically what Facebook is already absolutely not because first of all I don't care about my facebook statuses and no one else does either second of all that's two meals on the dollar menu of McDonald's thanks for the comments and you can check out all the responses on tout and send us your thoughts any time that's your tech news update for today stay updated on all the latest news at Cena com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey