Yahoo! R&D India's Pete Deemer on Expansion in India

20:27 | Kamla Bhatt | Feb 14th, 2007 4:13pm |

Over the last year, Yahoo’s India R&D center has moved to doing true product development says Chief Product Officer Pete Deemer. There are about 25 product managers who work on different products and services. Pete points out that this shift means that today the product development process in India runs from conception to implementation. The products that the Bangalore office works on straddle both the global platform and the local market in India. What are some of these products? Yahoo avatar is a product that was developed completely in India. So was Yahoo’s new product called Mixd, which was launched in the U.S. a few weeks ago. Yahoo’s podcasting service was also developed in India and won a webby award last year. For the local market in India, Yahoo has introduced Farechase, sms back-up and other services. Pete acts as a mentor and coach for the product development team in India. He has been in India for a year now and works out of Yahoo! India’s Bangalore office. Prior to that he was vice president, product development at Yahoo’s Sunnyvale office.

Tags: product development, Farechase

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