According to the post on the TechCrunch blog Yahoo is moving a large part of its YOS group to Bangalore. The YOS (Yahoo Open Strategy) group, run by SVP Jay Rossiter, includes YDN as well as other products aimed at developers like YCW and YQL.

Yahoo only confirms that some California based YDN engineers are being moved to other projects, calling it a “pretty minor internal shift of resources.” But as TechCruch notes that at least two senior engineers were fired outright.

The idea of moving the staff, says TechCrunch, is to counter Facebook platform.