InfoSpace opens R&D center in Bangalore

BANGALORE, INDIA: InfoSpace, Inc., developer of metasearch products, today reinforced its commitment to innovation by opening a R&D center in Bangalore, India, their first such office in India.

The Bangalore office will be InfoSpace’s largest R&D center outside Bellevue, Washington, and will focus on enhancing the development and delivery of InfoSpace’s world-class consumer products and business solutions.

Jim Voelker, chairman and chief executive officer, InfoSpace, Inc said, “We are extremely pleased to have set-up InfoSpace’s first R&D center in Bangalore, India. India’s high growth and depth of technology talent make it an exciting location to expand our global research capabilities.”

He added, “As a fully operational R&D facility, the India development centre will significantly contribute, strengthen and drive innovation at InfoSpace.”

“In a very short span the Bangalore R&D center has developed 2 products end to end for DNS & portal solutions. Having such a kick start, I believe the Bangalore R&D center will significantly contribute & augment InfoSpace’s globally distributed R&D network. Thus it will allow InfoSpace to access research talent anywhere enabling it to collaborate around the world to create new technologies for our customers.” said Srishti Sofat, country manager, InfoSpace, India.

Located in the centre of Bangalore city, the new R&D centre offers a full range of amenities to provide work-life balance for employees while maintaining close proximity to their homes. The center is spread over 4000 sq ft, with a current headcount of 18. The center will focus on development work for a wide range of products in the areas of private label search, private label portal, DNS error services, etc. In addition to product development, the Research and Development centre will also work on the emerging technologies in the search domain.