Yahoo! India content head quits

BANGALORE: The plagiarism issue that dogged Yahoo! India seems to have had fallout on the company's executive rank.

This week, Ajay Nambiar, the head of content and Niyati Sen Gupta, head of entertainment, have quit Yahoo!.

A Yahoo! India spokesperson has denied reports that the two had been asked to leave the company following the controversy.

Yahoo! has also chosen Aparna Pujar, the former business director at the company’s media division, as the new content head.

Following the protest and complaints by bloggers regarding plagiarized content on various Yahoo! India’s language portals, the company initiated investigation into the complaints.

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In an e-mail to CyberMedia News, Inju Pennu, a blogger who has been a key participant in the drive against plagiarism, said, “We Indian bloggers think it is high time Yahoo put a halt to this plain and simple stealing that is happening in the name of "content development". We bloggers are making a complete report on new evidence and content theft, which is springing up daily. Even after all this protest and apology, Yahoo! India and its subcontractor are still oblivious or arrogant about copyright violations.”

She further stated that under these circumstances, the blogging community wanted Yahoo! to “put a pause on their current portal” and make sure the existing and the new content on their portal is not from someone else's blog or books, and completely revamp Yahoo's multi-lingual portal.

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