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Yahoo To Sell Mobile Ads on Idea; OneSearch on MTNL - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 16 Jun 2008 11:34 PM PST

Yahoo has signed up Idea Cellular to sell mobile adds across its network....the operator plan to carry a variety of graphical ads, sold and served by Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). It…

Yahoo Restrained From Publishing T-Series Content By Delhi High Court - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 30 May 2008 06:49 AM PST

Indian Music label T-Series today obtained an interim injunction against Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Inc and Yahoo India from the Delhi High Court, contentSutra has learned. The Court issued a notice,…

Yahoo India Adds Content To Search Results With Glue Page - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 07 May 2008 07:55 PM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has unveiled a new search-related product in India called “Glue Page”. A Glue page adds context to search results with a mashup of content from multiple sources…

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Yahoo India Launches Local Search - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 01 May 2008 02:51 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) India has launched a public beta of its local search service, writes Ashish Sihna, a Yahoo employee at Pluggd.in. The service currently covers four cities (Bombay, Banglore,…

Yahoo-AOL In Advanced Talks on Combining - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 07:54 PM PST

Well, with its announcement of a two-week Adsense trial, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is finally playing a very public hand with Google—thus raising the stakes even across during Microsoft’s three-week deadline.…

Yahoo Maps India Launches Vernacular Content; Some Issues - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 24 Mar 2008 10:23 PM PST

Yahoo Maps India has launched maps in local languages, reports InformationMadness. I tried out Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Maps Vernacular, and noticed a few usability issues. For example, if I enable…

Yahoo Launches New Lab in Bangalore - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 04 Mar 2008 09:53 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) India has now announced the setting up of a new lab in Bangalore. The new lab, which will be headed by Rakeev Rastogi, will focus on developing…

Yahoo Layoffs: 45 In Bangalore Asked To Quit - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 14 Feb 2008 12:01 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) India has asked 45 full time employees to put in their papers, reports Business Standard, quoting a source who says that over 100 employees may be asked…

Yahoo To Launch Our City And Maps On Mobile; On Yahoo Groups - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 05 Feb 2008 08:32 PM PST

Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) front page will open up to widgets, reports the Hindu. On the mobile, they will launch a mobile version of Our City and Maps, once Yahoo Go…

Microsoft-Yahoo: Implications For India - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 01 Feb 2008 12:09 PM PST

In India, a Microsoft-Yahoo combine will help fill some gaps: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has been far more active in the country, with investments in the online classifieds co Consim (Bharatmatrimony.com)…

MSFT-YHOO: Links To Coverage Across Our Sites - 1 Comment
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 01 Feb 2008 11:30 AM PST

Some of our breaking-news coverage from sister sites paidContent.org, mocoNews.net and paidContent:UK: paidContent.org: -- Google: MSFT Bid Raises ‘Troubling Questions’; Openness Mantra Again; MSFT Responds: We’d Be No 2 --…

Reliance Partners With Yahoo oneSearch - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Jan 2008 03:28 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] The marriage season continues. Airtel goes with Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) with MSN and now Reliance has tied the application knot with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO).…

Yahoo Extends OneSearch To Aircel, BPL And BSNL In India - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 Nov 2007 01:52 AM PST

At the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced that it has tied up with 9 new mobile operators for its OneSearch service; this takes Yahoo’s OneSearch…

Yahoo India Launching Mail In Hindi, Web IM In Multiple Languages - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 30 Oct 2007 01:47 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) India has added two new localization features to its services—their web based messenger now allows instant messaging in multiple Indian languages - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi,…

Earnings: Sify’s In Losses In Q3; Legal Expenses Against Yahoo India Piling Up - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 24 Oct 2007 01:04 PM PST

Sify reported its Q3 earnings today, and its revenues were $37.02 million, up 6.4 percent from the year-ago period. The company was in losses and was 2 cents a share,…

Yahoo Launches OneSearch On SMS In India - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 22 Oct 2007 02:49 AM PST

Close to the heels of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launching SMS based information services in India, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has followed suit by announcing the launch of OneSearch SMS. Users can…

Videos And Interviews From Yahoo’s Open Hack Day In India - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 11 Oct 2007 02:42 AM PST

Kamla Bhatt was at the recent Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Hack Day in Bangalore, and has uploaded some videos of the hacks that were presented. Most appeared to be mashups or…

Yahoo Sees India As Testing Ground; Claims 24 Million Active Indian Users - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 08 Oct 2007 02:27 AM PST

Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) co-founder David Filo, and currently the interim CTO at the company, was in India for Open Hack Day organized by Yahoo! India R&D; as per this report…

Yahoo’s Jagran Site Is Live - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 03 Sep 2007 09:08 PM PST

I just noticed that Yahoo India’s Hindi portal with Jagran has gone live. The site contains content from 14 Indian states: Bihar, Delhi, Chhatisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, J&K, Jharkhand, Madhya…

Yahoo Mail SMS…Orkut Mobile Scraps? - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 26 Aug 2007 09:40 PM PST

(By James Quintana Pearce on MocoNews) Yahoo is updating its e-mail client, and among other things is the ability to send free text messages to a mobile phone number from…

Yahoo India MD George Zacharias Resigns; Gets $20 Million From Sequoia Capital For New Venture - 23 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 09 Aug 2007 04:57 AM PST

Updated below (Original Story: 2007-08-06, 02:12 AM PST) We’d contacted Yahoo India regarding this, and just received a press release confirming that George Zacharias, Managing Director, Yahoo India has stepped…

Did Former Yahoo MD Zacharias and US Management Not See Eye To Eye? - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 08 Aug 2007 07:39 PM PST

Businessweek’s Bruce Einhorn voices his scepticism on the reason for Yahoo India’s Managing Director George Zacharias’ exit after merely a year and a half at the helm. Zacharias said he…

Yahoo Launches Advertising Portal - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 31 Jul 2007 05:07 AM PST

Yahoo India has launched Yahoo India Advertising, which is surprisingly similar to...Yahoo Advertising! [via release] The India specific customization aggregation of news feeds from exchange4media, agencyfaqs and the IAMAI’s e-zine…

Yahoo and Google In Mobile India - The Battle Continues - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 24 Jul 2007 07:01 PM PST

Last month, agencyfaqs.com reported Yahoo is probably zooming ahead of Google in the Indian mobile race. Now obviously, Google doesn’t seem to be sitting tight. The world’s largest Internet company…

Advertising Revenues Tripled Last Year Says Yahoo India MD - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 19 Jul 2007 03:50 AM PST

At the press conference yesterday, where Yahoo announced a strategic investment in advertising network Tyroo, Yahoo India MD George Zacharias mentioned that the company’s advertising revenues had tripled last year.…