A sad day for comedy: Its sayonara to one of big businesses loose cannons, Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, who is stepping down at big boss. He’s been entertainingly under fire from his staff and board after cocking-up a sale to Microsoft earlier this year and then waving goodbye to Google in a proposed internet advertising tie-up. He wrote to employees to say he would find another buyer, and never did. Yahoo is surprisingly popular outside of the UK, where Google is king, and a new boss might just be the shot in the arm the company needs, so definitely put them on your “possible employer” list. Yang’s e-mail to employees ended with the words: “All of you know that I have always and will always bleed purple” - in reference to the predominant colour on the company’s logo. Er…which is red.

KPMG: they resigned the fated XL account in 2006 citing dangerous accounting irregularities – er…BDO Stoy Hayward took over the account… Aberystwyth freshers: after it is named as UK’s favourite university town, new students have been housed in hotels as record numbers turn up for the new term… Online advertising: Four out of five advertisers have increased their online ad spend and predict it will continue to grow in the next two years… The West Virginian law student who is suing his college, after they refused his demands for 4 days instead of 2 in order to complete his law exam because he has trouble concentrating…

A computer has been sold on eBay for £35 that contained details for 1 million Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest customers on the hard drive, including in some cases account details, customers’ signatures, mobile phone numbers and mothers’ maiden names. American Express are also rumored to be involved. Such equipment is meant to be disposed of securely and completely – not hocked off to third parties. Data processing company Mail Source, which is part of the archiving firm Graphic Data, said it was investigating how the computer equipment had been removed from a secure location.  Last year the Financial Services Authority fined the Nationwide Building Society £980,000 for a security breach, after a laptop containing customer data was stolen from an employee’s home.

The publisher Penguin has launched an online dating website with Match.com to bring sex-starved literature fans together. Members will be asked to list their favourite books in their profile and will be able to search for suitors with similar literary tastes. You get the idea: “I like Bret Easton Ellis, I like fine dining, red meat and watersports…” Dragging the book industry into the 22nd Century, Penguin will promote the site in the final pages of more than two million paperback novels. It hopes the site will restore “the importance of the written word to modern courtship”. And it is important….that and booze. Like the idea of publishing? The for heaven sake watch our videos on the industry.

If someone called Nigel from Nigel’s Eco Store starts dishing out awards, you’d be forgiven for not paying much attention. However he put together a panel of experts from across the media and came up with this weeks Green Web Awards for those companies who are walking the talk when it comes to the environment and (this week’s buzz word) sustainability. Good news for our old friends at People Tree (who’s designer was the first person to draw my portrait) the London based peddler of  fair trade clothes: they came top for their work with high-level fashion designers, that they couple with natural, sustainable (again) resources working with 50 fair trade groups in 15 countries. Other winners worthy of your attention for the way they are thinking outside the box include Responsible Travel (green travel), Freecycle (online community)and Method (greenest company).