Venture capital fund Canaan Partners has appointed former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Syamtec executive Sharad Sharma as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Sharma earlier led Yahoo! India R&D and was the India General Manager and VP of Product Operations with Symantec. Sharma was responsible for turning around the operations of Symantec’s, formerly VERITAS…

Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) today launched its social news site Buzz in India, making it the first international version of the product that launched early 2008 and soon beat competitor Digg.com in traffic. From the company’s official blog Yodel Anecdotal: “Today, Yahoo! Buzz in India is starting off with more than…

Even as it is trimming staff globally, Internet major Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) will hire nearly 150 people in India, according to this PTI (via livemint) story. Available openings include those in engineering, customer care, research and product management. One note of caution, however: The story is based on positions advertised…

Looks like Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is winding up OurCity. The homepage now carries the following message, which also appears on top of every search page. Yahoo! India Our City will be going off the air on 18th Feb 2009. We have incorporated successes within Our City, into our new offering…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has acquired a 30 percent stake in Indian telephone-directory search service called Call Ezee, which is owned by Network Management Co., reports Reuters. Yahoo’s cash infusion will help the company expand its reach from covering 14 cities to up to 50, and grow its information data base…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made a strategic investment in Info Network Management Company (INMAC), a phone directory search company based in Chennai that offers online and voice-powered directory assistance. Yahoo bought a 30 percent stake in INMAC, known for its Call Ezee service, and will gain at least one spot…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his post as soon as the board finds a suitable replacement, and BoomTown broke the story. The official release from Yahoo is out. Kara also has his full memo to the Yahoo team, in which Yang says he’ll participate in…

In one of those local experiments that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) keeps doing from time to time, it has launched a new social networking service called SpotM in India. This is Yahoo’s third or fourth attempt at entering social networking space, which has been a weak spot for it for it…

A week after AOL unveiled its new-look front page with lifestreaming and e-mail aggregation, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is starting limited random beta tests of new home pages—and we mean limited—to less than one percent of users in the U.S., UK, France and India. The beta emphasizes apps from Yahoo and…

After a recruitment slowdown that coincided with the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) bid saga, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is planning to hire more than 400 employees in India, according to Business Standard. Most of the hires will be for its 1,500-person Centre of Excellence in Bangalore, where the focus is on India…

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 has also announced a similar deal today with Maxis Communications Berhad in Malaysia. This adds to its existing operator partnerships,…

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, in the interim, restraining Yahoo from streaming T-Series owned content on their portal Yahoo Video. T-Series is the largest music…

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 - Wikipedia, YouTube, HolidayIQ, TrainEnquiry, and some Yahoo sites - Answers, Local, Flickr and Images. It’s like Wikipedia, and then…

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, Chennai and Delhi) with Restaurant, Pubs, Shopping Malls and Health listings. The restaurant listings have a nice addition with map…

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. But the real drama is behind scenes where Yahoo is still talking to Time Warner—despite the observers who say any…

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 the vernacular feature, a native language of the state is automatically selected for me - I don’t have a choice…

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 next generation search and advertising technologies. Rastogi has been appointed VP, and he joins from Bell Labs India, where he…

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 to quit. Additionally, a senior employee has told BS that recruitment has been slow ever since the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)…

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 3.0 is launched in India. Nothing yet about when Yahoo Local will be launched for India - it’s been in…