By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten is active in a number of businesses, and online recipes is one of the newest. And now Rakuten Recipe, which has been growing rapidly since launch in October 2010 and might overtake market leader Cookpad at some point, is getting an iPhone app. The...
Japan’s online restaurant navigation service and Tabelog competitor Gourmet Navigator (listed, 2440) has revamped its mobile site for smartphone browsers today. Before, users visiting on their iPhone or Android basically accessed the PC version. The new touch control-friendly Gourmet...
Japan’s e-commerce juggernaut Rakuten is active in a number of verticals, and one of them is real estate. And now Rakuten has expanded its offering on the Rakuten Real Estate sub-site drastically. First and foremost, Rakuten Real Estate has three times more condos and houses on offer than...
E-books are a hot topic in Japan currently: Tokyo-based market research firm Impress R&D is saying that Japan’s e-book market grew 13.2% to 65 billion yen in 2010 and projects the market to be worth 200 billion in 2015. Now it seems that Rakuten is looking to get a piece of the pie: the...
Kakaku has released traffic information on its biggest properties for June 2011, their namesake price comparison site (and Japan’s largest) and restaurant guide (and Gourmet Navigator competitor) Tabelog. And according to the report, both Kakaku and Tabelog grew significantly on a year-on...
Japan’s e-commerce juggernaut Rakuten and the country’s 2nd largest telco KDDI au have announced a strategic linkup focused on electronic money today. Under the agreement, Rakuten’s Edy electronic money system will be combined with KDDI au’s mobile checkout infrastructure...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry