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Yahoo! India turns 5; completes half a decade of operations in India
MUMBAI: Yahoo! India today turned five and is among a handful of survivors of the dotcom bust, completing five years of operations in India. The dotcom major claims over 30 ++ million registrations from India with a huge clientele of online advertisers across sectors and a robust mobile business promoted through the shortcode 8243.
To celebrate this milestone, Yahoo! India has urged its Indian online consumers to express what Yahoo! means to them. The best responses will be selected and sent a special Yahoo! Goodie Box .
Says Yahoo! India country general manager Neville Taraporewalla, “Our entry in India coincided with the dotcom melt down, but then Yahoo! was certainly not just another company. It had founders who had humble beginnings, had the passion and most important had the vision to hire a team to make their idea a success. We built Yahoo! India brick by brick after the 2002 restructuring in a market where the penetration was poor. We innovated, found out alternate revenue streams and today as I speak, we have successfully created a community of Yahooligans in India. Globally, if Yahoo! were a country, we would be the third largest nation in the world with over 374 million consumers across the globe.”
The latest IMRB report showed Yahoo! as having the highest awareness amongst Internet users in India. As per the survey, Yahoo! scored a whopping 60 per cent on awareness.
In the fray and waiting to roll is a major new advertising campaign for Yahoo! India Mail and Yahoo! India Mobile, to promote the introduction of new product features of these services.
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Beacon Group appoints Dr Rajesh Patel as Group CEO
36-year healthcare veteran to lead Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek, Biogeny.
MUMBAI: A new chief, a fresh diagnosis and a sharper prescription for growth. Beacon Group has appointed Dr Rajesh Patel as its Group Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2026, signalling a decisive push to scale its presence in the diagnostics and IVD space. Patel steps into the role with 36 years of experience across the healthcare and diagnostics industry, bringing a career shaped by leadership roles spanning sales, marketing, business development and operational strategy. His mandate is both expansive and precise: to steer the group’s overall strategic direction while tightening coordination across its three core entities Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek and Biogeny Diagnostics.
In practical terms, that means driving cross-company synergies, accelerating market expansion and strengthening organisational capability areas increasingly critical as diagnostic players compete for scale in a fragmented yet rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. The group is positioning itself to capture unmet demand across chain laboratories, key accounts and standalone labs, segments that remain underserved despite growing diagnostic needs.
The appointment comes at a time when the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) sector in India is entering a more competitive and innovation-led phase, with companies focusing not just on product pipelines but also on service delivery, integration and customer-centric models. Beacon’s leadership appears to be betting that Patel’s execution-focused approach can help translate ambition into operational momentum.
Welcoming the appointment, Chairman Dr D K Joshi described Patel’s induction as a strategic move aligned with the group’s long-term vision, emphasising the role of leadership depth in navigating the next phase of growth.
For Beacon Group, the message is clear, in a sector where precision matters, leadership is the new differentiator—and this appointment is intended to set the tone for what comes next.
