Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

By kamla bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, USA

David Filo and his classmate Jerry Yang started Yahoo! in the mid-1990s, when the Internet was just taking off. Their initial website was a collection of interesting links, a list of sorts, which eventually morphed and became a major Internet company.
In this interview David talks about the early days of Yahoo!, frugality [...]



By kamla bhatt • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

Ninja Srinivasan  heads Yahoo’s editorial team in Sunnyvale, CA talks.
In Part-2  we pick up our thread of conversation from Part-1 where NInja shared what it takes to create and aggregate news on a 24/7 basis. In this episode she talks about her role at Yahoo!,  her days at Stanford and working at her first [...]



By kamla bhatt • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

Srinija Srinivasan or Ninj or Ninja is Vice President and  editor-in-chief at Yahoo! Inc.
Ninja and her team are responsible for the content that we read everyday on Yahoo’s website.  “Shepherding the voice of Yahoo,” is how Ninja describes the work she and  her team do on a 24/7 basis every day of the year.
Ninj’s editorial [...]



By kamla bhatt • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Entertainment, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

Yahoo’s Hackday India is currently underway at the Taj Residency in Bangalore, India.  There are two types of folks attending the events: the hackers and the info geeks, who are not particiapants but are there to attend the various technology seminars.
There are 303 hackers and about 60 infogeeks  participating at this 2-day hackday India event. [...]