LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ross Levinsohn, the interim CEO who was snubbed in the search for a permanent leader at Yahoo, is leaving the Internet portal.

Yahoo announced the departure in a securities filing on Monday.

With much fanfare, Yahoo appointed 37-year-old Marissa Mayer as CEO two weeks ago. Retaining Levinsohn would have been one of her first big triumphs.

Levinsohn, 48, had been head of Yahoo's global media business and had pushed the company to enter into exclusive partnerships with the likes of CNBC and Tom Hanks to create original content.

But Levinsohn was passed over twice by the company's board in favor of other top executives, including Scott Thompson, who resigned in May over discrepancies on his resume after just four months on the job.

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Check out the gallery (below) to see new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's best quotes about being a woman in tech.
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  • Advice To Job Hunting Women

    "Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender-neutralizing," Google CEO Marissa Mayer said on Martha Stewart's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SilwG6vMARI" target="_hplink">Women with Vision</a>" television series in 2011.

  • The Pie 'Isn't Big Enough'

    "Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech," Mayer told a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=prXCrcV-T3M" target="_hplink">CES2012 panel hosted by CNET</a>. "[I] worry a lot of times the conversation gets really focused on what percentage of the pie is women. And the truth is, the pie isn't big enough. We're not producing enough computer scientist. We're not producing enough product designers. We need a lot more people to keep up with all of these gadgets, all of this technology, all these possibilities." Mayer also commented on the stereotypical culture within the tech world: "There's all kinds of different women who do this. You can wear ruffles, you can be a jock, and you still be a great computer scientist or a great technologist, or a great product designer."

  • Tangible Technology

    "There's just huge growth and opportunity. [T]he fact that the technology is now so tangible in our everyday lives, I think, will inspire a lot more women to go into technology -- and I'm really heartened by that," Mayer said for the MAKERS "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikYo_TLvLh0&list=PL060768C56BD94F3E&index=9&feature=plpp_video" target="_hplink">Women in Tech</a>" interview series in 2012.

  • Internet Empowered

    "I consider myself incredibly lucky to be present in a moment in time when this wonderful and powerful medium, the internet, is empowering geeks -- and especially female geeks -- to express and pursue their passions," Meyer said in a 2012 acceptance speech at the Celebrating Change gala. She had just won the International Museum of Women's first-ever <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ysPF6gQRROY" target="_hplink">Innovator Award</a>.

  • Geekin' Out

    "People ask me all the time, 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a women at Google; I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great," she said in an interview for CNN's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sNO1QM9UBCA" target="_hplink">"Leading Women</a>" series in 2012.