Yahoo is building a centralized software infrastructure across all its media products, to make development and global updates more efficient, an executive said on Saturday.

As the company builds different sites in different countries, it believes that a more powerful way of building these sites is through the use of a central code base in a cloud environment, with strong localization for each market, Jeff Kinder , Yahoo's senior vice president for media products and solutions, said on the sidelines of a Yahoo Open Hack Day in Bangalore.

Yahoo's media products include news, sports, finance and entertainment.

"If we build on a central code base, then some of the innovations that we build on top of it, can be immediately cascaded around the world," Kinder said.

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