Yahoo! announces the expansion of its India R&D operations

Yahoo! announced the expansion of its India R&D operations with the launch of Yahoo! Labs - Bangalore, its first in India.

Yahoo! Labs - Bangalore will be a center of excellence for next generation search and advertising technologies, focused on making the Web more relevant and simple for users and advertisers.

Dr. Rajeev Rastogi has been appointed as vice president and head of the new lab. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Dr. Rastogi was the founding director of Bell Labs India. He was a Bell Labs Fellow and Distinguished Member of its Technical Staff. "Yahoo! is focused on pioneering research and technology to delight hundreds of millions of users each day on the Web," said Rastogi. "I'm delighted to be joining Yahoo! and plan to draw on my experiences in the areas of database systems, data mining and network management to help the team tackle some of the toughest problems on the Web."