Microsoft India R&D expands product development activities to Bangalore
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 01 April 2010, 22:57 IST
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Bangalore: Microsoft India R&D, which already has a development center in Hyderabad, today announced the expansion of its development activities to Bangalore. Product Development and Applied Research in the cutting edge areas of Web Search and Online Advertising will be the focus of the Bangalore team. It will initially have 200 plus employees, vast majority of whom would transition to Microsoft from Yahoo! as part of the Microsoft-Yahoo! Search alliance. Addressing the media, Satya Nadella, Senior Vice-President, R&D, Online Services Division (OSD), Microsoft, said, "The Bangalore center joins Hyderabad as one of the core hubs of development and research for OSD. The innovations from our Hyderabad team are already having significant impact on our US, UK, Canada, Australia and India products. The combined skills and talent of our existing OSD team at Hyderabad and the Yahoo! employees who join us now in Bangalore will enhance India's contribution to our OSD innovation charter inclusive of Microsoft Bing and Microsoft adCenter." "We are confident that once the transition is completed, the companies' unified search marketplace will deliver even greater and improved innovation for consumers, better volume and efficiency for advertisers and better monetization opportunities for web publishers,' Satya added. Srini Koppolu, Corporate Vice-President and Managing Director, Microsoft India R&D, said, "Over the last 11 years, we made significant R&D contributions to Microsoft from India, engineering several products that empower customers worldwide. Our development center has become the destination for the 'best and the brightest' talent of India, and we are very excited to welcome on board the group of talented engineers from Yahoo! who will further strengthen our talent base. In Hyderabad, we will continue to grow our existing development efforts that are aligned to major Microsoft lines of business. In Bangalore, the initial focus would be on R&D in search and online advertising technologies."

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