LinkedIn connects with ex-Yahoo exec as new CEO

(AP) -- After six months of grooming, LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo Inc. executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job running the Internet's largest site devoted to professional networking.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news165072775.html">LinkedIn connects with ex-Yahoo exec as new CEO</a></p> <p>(AP) -- After six months of grooming, LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo Inc. executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job running the Internet's largest site devoted to professional networking.</p>