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CNET said on Monday its president and chief operating officer Barry Briggs has resigned.
CNET said Briggs plans to pursue personal and other business interests. The company said it has no plans to replace him at this time.
CNET's chairman and chief executive officer Shelby Bonnie resigned in October due to his role in the company's backdated stock options controversy.

In TechCrunch today, Michael Arrington writes about CNET's difficult times.
Recent data suggests that CNET’s overall traffic isn’t just flat, it’s declining at an alarmingly swift pace. A Jeffries & Company report released on Wednesday points to a third quarter 50% drop in CNET traffic compared to the same period in 2005, including a whopping 69% drop in traffic at WebShots.
A closer look at Comscore data for CNET shows September 2006 traffic for all CNET properties at 616 million page views, v. 1.37 billion page views in September...
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Shelby Bonnie, chairman and chief executive of technology news publisher CNet Networks Inc., has resigned following a review of the company's stock-options practices, the company said Wednesday.
The company named Neil Ashe as its new chief executive, effective immediately.
CNet said a special committee established to investigate the company's past granting of stock options found instances of backdating, a practice that can inflate the potential windfall to recipients when options are exercised. The company said a number of executives,...
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