Yahoo India

Yahoo India (in.yahoo.com) is the India-focused edition of the Yahoo web portal, one of the earliest and best-known consumer internet brands. It localises Yahoo's core properties — Yahoo News India, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Cricket/Sports, Yahoo Movies and lifestyle verticals — for Indian readers and advertisers, publishing in English and, at various points, in Hindi and other Indian languages. Yahoo itself began as a web directory founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo at Stanford University and grew into a global portal, search engine and media company. Yahoo India became one of the group's larger regional editorial operations, building a substantial in-house newsroom that covered national news, business, cricket and Bollywood, and selling display and native advertising to Indian brands. Its cricket coverage, tied to the popularity of the sport in India, has long been a traffic anchor. Ownership has changed several times at the parent level: Verizon acquired Yahoo's operating business in 2017 and combined it with AOL under the Oath (later Verizon Media) umbrella; in 2021 Apollo Global Management bought Verizon Media, and the business was renamed Yahoo Inc. Yahoo India operates as part of that privately held group rather than as a separately listed Indian entity. Competitively, Yahoo India sits in a crowded digital news and portal market dominated by Google, Meta platforms, Indian digital publishers and news aggregators. Its positioning rests on the global Yahoo brand, a large mail user base, and editorial curation of news, finance and sports for Indian audiences, monetised mainly through advertising and content partnerships.

Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web", a hand-curated directory of websites created while they were graduate students at Stanford University. Incorporated as Yahoo! Inc. in 1995, it became one of the defining portals of the early web, combining search, email, news and directory services, and went public in 1996. Yahoo's international expansion in the late 1990s and 2000s brought localised portals to major markets, including India, one of the world's fastest-growing internet populations. Yahoo India established a local editorial operation producing news, business, cricket and entertainment coverage, and became a significant destination for Indian users of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Search. Its cricket coverage and Bollywood entertainment content were particularly strong traffic drivers in the Indian market. At the parent level, Yahoo's fortunes shifted as Google and later social platforms took the lead in search and advertising. After a prolonged strategic review, Verizon acquired Yahoo's operating business in 2017 and merged it with AOL under the Oath brand, later renamed Verizon Media. In 2021, Apollo Global Management agreed to acquire Verizon Media; the business was rebranded as Yahoo Inc. and operates as a privately held company. Yahoo India continues as part of that group, running in.yahoo.com and its editorial verticals, while the Indian digital media market has become dominated by global platforms and a large field of domestic publishers. Specific founding dates, leadership names and financial details for the India operation are not documented in the supplied evidence and are therefore omitted here.

• 2021

  Apollo Global Management acquires Verizon Media; business rebranded Yahoo Inc.

• 2017

  Verizon acquires Yahoo's operating business and combines it with AOL

• 1995

  Yahoo! Inc. incorporated and later listed publicly

• 1994

  Yahoo founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo as a web directory

Localised edition of a global consumer internet and media brand, competing for Indian digital news, mail and advertising audiences.

• Yahoo News India

  Localised news aggregation and original reporting for Indian audiences.

• Yahoo Mail

  Free webmail service available to Indian users.

• Yahoo Cricket

  Cricket news, scores and coverage, a major traffic driver in India.

• Yahoo Finance India

  Market data and business news for Indian readers.

• 2026

  Siddaramaiah files defamation suit against 42 media organisations and digital platforms over honey-trap videos

  Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah filed a defamation suit before the Bengaluru City Civil and Sessions Court against 42 defendants, including Freedom TV Kannada, the YouTube channel Karnataka Honey Trap, WhatsApp, YouTube LLC, Google India, Yahoo India and Facebook India. He seeks to restrain publication of two videos allegedly linking him to a honey-trap controversy and to have the content removed and access disabled. He contends the material lacks independently verifiable evidence, alleges the timing and commentary were intended to bring him into public disrepute, and denies the insinuations as false and baseless. The judge reserved orders on the interim application on Monday (October 12, 2026), with the order to be pronounced on October 13, 2026.

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  Reported: 2026-10-13

  Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has filed a defamation suit before the Bengaluru City Civil and Sessions Court against 42 defendants, including Freedom TV Kannada, the YouTube channel Karnataka Honey Trap, WhatsApp, YouTube LLC, Google India, Yahoo India and Facebook India, seeking to restrain publication of two videos allegedly linking him to a honey-trap controversy and to have the content removed and access disabled. He contends the material lacks independently verifiable evidence, alleges the timing and commentary were intended to bring him into public disrepute, and categorically denies the insinuations as false and baseless. The judge reserved orders on the interim application on Monday (October 12, 2026), with the order to be pronounced on October 13, 2026.

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2. 2Yahoo Indiain.yahoo.com
3. 3Siddaramaiah files defamation suit against 42 media organisations and digital platforms over honey-trap videosbarandbench.com