BWI: Over 800 developers to participate in Yahoo!’s Open Hack Bangalore

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Source: Yahoo! India R&D
Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:36 PM IST (07:06 AM GMT)
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Over 800 developers to participate in Yahoo!'s Open Hack Bangalore
Followed by Innovation Conference themed "Winning in India

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Thursday, July 21, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- Yahoo! India Research & Development announced its fourth Open Hack in India and 15th globally which will take place on July 30-31st in Bangalore. Building on the success of the most recent Open Hack in Europe which took place in Bucharest in May, Open Hack events take place several times a year in locations all around the world. Open Hacks provide a platform for the developer community to build applications and product ideas from scratch using market-leading technologies from Yahoo! as well as other technologies, to develop innovative new products which leverage the entire Yahoo! digital media platform.

Following Open Hack India, Yahoo! will also hold its second 'Innovation Conference' on July 31st reiterating its commitment to nurture the open innovation ecosystem in India. The theme for this year is "Winning in India - Changing the Game". It will include panel discussions on critical topics such as mobile & tablet experiences, social entrepreneurship, emerging content consumption patterns and the e-commerce & deals space in India. While Open Hack brings together tech innovators, the Innovation Conference will provide a platform for VCs, start-ups and industry bodies to actively engage with one another and explore opportunities, challenges and share experiences of what it means to unlock India's vibrant potential.

Open Hack India will open its doors to more than 800 developers from over 20 different states across India, sponsored by the Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN), the company's central resource for developers and partners to leverage the Yahoo! platform in their own applications. Developers will be able to hack using everything from best-in-class content to market-leading advertising and consumer products like search, communications, media and mobile The global developer community is an important part of Yahoo!'s business. The passion of these developers and the opportunity to reach Yahoo!'s almost 700 million consumers worldwide and technology are what drive global innovation and creativity across the Web. Hack events, popularized by Yahoo! and its global technology teams, unite programmers, developers and designers in an exciting and fun shared experience.

"As the premier digital media company, it is critical for us to nurture a vibrant developer ecosystem. Over the years, Yahoo!'s Open Hacks have turned into a calendar event not to miss among the tech community, and we take inspiration from the overwhelming response it has received this year too," said Shouvick Mukherjee, VP & CEO, Yahoo! India R&D.

The two day event involves 24 hours of hacking using a great collection of new web tools, services and APIs from the YDN, as well as data from around the web. The event will kick off with a series of hack-related presentations, followed by non-stop 24-hour hacking. This year's event is at Hotel Lalit Ashok.

All the entries will be judged on Sunday, the best of which will be invited to attend the Hack All Stars Event, taking place in New York City, USA on 13-14 September. This event will bring together all the winners of Yahoo!'s recent Open Hacks and HackU (University hack events) for a grand final Hackathon.

APPENDIX: THE HISTORY OF YAHOO! OPEN HACKS

Open Hack India will be the 15th Open Hack event to date. Here's the Open Hack Event timeline.

Click on the links to view videos and information from past hack days:

-- September 29-30, 2006: U.S. Open Hack (Sunnyvale, CA)
-- June 16-17, 2007: London Open Hack
-- October 5-6, 2007: Bangalore Open Hack
-- September 12-13, 2008: U.S. Open Hack (Sunnyvale, CA)
-- September 19-21, 2008: Taiwan Open Hack
-- November 8-9, 2008: Brazil Open Hack
-- February 14-15, 2009: Bangalore Open Hack
-- May 9-10, 2009: London Open Hack
-- October 9-10, 2009: U.S. Open Hack (New York City)
-- October 17-18, 2009: Taiwan Open Hack
-- November 21-22, 2009: SEA Open Hack, Jakarta
-- March 20-21, 2010: Open Hack Brazil in Sao Paulo
-- July 24-25, 2010: Open Hack India in Bangalore
-- May 14-15, 2011: Europe Open Hack, Bucharest
-- July 30-31, 2011: Open Hack India in Bangalore
-- September 13-14, 2011: Open Hack All Stars event, New York, USA

Click here for an overview of the history of our Open Hacks

About Open Hack Day

Hack Days started as an internal event that brought Yahoo! developers together and expanded into regular events in offices around the globe. Yahoo! began in 2006 in Sunnyvale and since then has taken it global with events in London, Brazil, Taiwan and for the 4th time, in Bangalore.

Open Hack Days enable talented developers to create better, more relevant and more social experiences on the Yahoo! network and beyond. The spirit of Open Hack Days is to leverage Yahoo's open API's and developer tools to create new applications.

[Developers wishing to register for the event can do so for free here http://openhackindia2011.eventbrite.com/ and visit http://developer.yahoo.com to explore Yahoo!'s developer technologies and APIs.]

Yahoo! India Research & Development

Bangalore is where Yahoo! has its second largest R&D center globally. Established 10 years ago, Yahoo! India R&D works with a mission to deliver product and technology innovation that create a significant business impact globally. The centre engages in end-to-end product development from concept through launch. The research arm, called Yahoo! Labs, focuses on basic and applied research in the areas of next-generation search, advertising and large-scale computing systems.

An integral source of Intellectual property at Yahoo! the Bangalore centre has yielded a 50% average year over year increase in idea submissions for patent consideration in the last four years. It has undertaken end-to-end development of more than 20 products providing best-in-class consumer experiences and online advertising products for both global and emerging markets. Some of its well-known products innovations are Yahoo! Cricket, OMG, Vertex, NGD Marketplace.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) is the premier digital media company, creating deeply personal digital experiences that keep more than half a billion people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. That's how we deliver your world, your way. And Yahoo!'s unique combination of Science + Art + Scale connects advertisers to the consumers who build their businesses. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.com) or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com)


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