By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Online fashion mall Zozotown (background) is seeing a rapid growth in traffic, if a new report by Nielsen is to be believed. According to Nielsen Japan [PDF], Zozotown’s PC site saw a total of four million unique users, up from slightly over 2.5 million in November. Nielsen identifies three...
Just a small note, but it was worth a press release for Kakaku and shows that Facebook is becoming more and more relevant for e-commerce companies in Japan: Kakaku now has a fan page on Facebook. So far, not even 200 people have pushed the “like” button and the news feed just shows some...
Big news from Amazon regarding the Japanese market today. The company announced it has started offering its cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services to local customers via data centers located in Japan (near Tokyo). The new facility is Amazon’s fifth data center and the second in Asia...
Indonesian tech blog DailySocial just reported that Rakuten Belanja, Rakuten‘s online mall in Indonesia is now live (as a beta version). Rakuten Belanja is a joint venture with PT Global Mediacom Tbk, the biggest media company in Indonesia. The partnership was announced in December 2010. My...
Groupon Japan is losing ground to Ponpare, a clone offered by Japanese web giant Recruit, if data compiled by daily coupon search service CP4U is to be believed. Too many “glitches”? The study CP4U released today [JP, PDF] analyzes sales numbers of Groupon and a total of 155 Japanese...
It seems Rakuten‘s drive towards internationalization is continuing. CEO Hiroshi Mikitani said in an interview with Japanese newspaper Mainichi that: he wants to see Rakuten grow its international business ten-fold in 15 years Rakuten will open their online mall Rakuten Ichiba in four...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry