Another top Yahoo! techie, Venkat quits

Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 12:57 [IST]

Washington, Apr 1: Venkat Panchapakesan, executive Vice-President of the Yahoo! Inc's Audio Technology Group will bid good bye to the Internet giant in coming summer. This news came a day after Yahoo Vice President, Dayne Sampson quit the job at Redmond.

Venkat, a 11-year-old veteran in Yahoo, is planning to return to India. He had worked on a bunch of products including Mail, Flicker, Answers, Groups, Messenger and content properties. Before joining Yahoo!, Venkat worked for Hewlett Packard (HP).

In past few months many senior officials have quit Yahoo! and a lot of them are ending up at Microsoft.

OneIndia News

Topics: yahoo, venkat panchapakesan, hp, united states, microsoft, flicker

Other articles published on April 1, 2009

Yahoo China wins unfair competition lawsuit

Thursday, December 21, 2006,11:36 [IST]

SHANGHAI, Dec 21: Yahoo China has won a lawsuit it brought against a local search engine operator over unfair competition, Yahoo China's owner, Alibaba.com, said today.Beijing's Second Intermediate Court ruled that Beijing Sanjiwuxian Internet Technology, operator of the Qihoo search engine, must stop competing unfairly and compensate Yahoo! China for damages and legal costs, Alibaba said in a statement.Beijing Sanjiwuxian was also required to make a public announcement clarifying ''incorrect allegations'', the statement said, without specifying the size.....

Yahoo India to invest in Tyroo media

Wednesday, July 18, 2007,16:11 [IST]

Bangalore, July 18: Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company today announced a significant investment of over 35 per cent in Tyroo Media Pvt. Ltd, a Gurgaon based company offering advertising solutions. Tyroo, was part of Smile Interactive Technologies Group (Smile Group) and had over 1200 registered publishers cross the country. Yahoo India Managing Director George Zacharias in a release said that the move would enable the company gear up towards gaining significant market.....

Limitless Updates

Business News

News Archives

Wikia details plans for search rival to Google

Saturday, July 28, 2007,8:03 [IST]

San Francisco, July 28: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites. ''If we can.....