By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, and major convenience store chain Lawson have signed a deal under which the companies will promote each other’s products and services. First, Lawson will establish a virtual shopping mall selling many of their own products plus items listed on...
CyberAgent continues its South East Asian investment spree: through subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures the company acquired a 20% stake in Vietnam’s top Internet search advertising agency Clever Advertising. Further details of the deal weren’t disclosed. CyberAgent says that 30% of...
Facebook Japan has launched Facebook Deals, an e-coupon service that was introduced in the US in November 2010. In the official announcement, Facebook Japan says lists up 14 partner companies, including big names such as Domino’s, Lawson, Adidas Japan, GAP, and others. Japanese users...
Rakuten isn’t stopping: after building up presences in North America, all parts of Asia, and Europe, it’s now South America’s turn. Japan’s biggest e-commerce company has bought a 75% stake in Ikeda, a Sao-Paolo-based e-retailer. Further details weren’t disclosed...
First DeNA, now GREE: big G announced (press release in English) they have drastically expand their cloud computing services since the beginning of this month, making it easier for American and Chinese app makers (on GREE) to enter Japan and for their Japanese partner companies to offer games in...
Earlier this month, I was lucky to spend a few days in Indonesia where I was honored to give a keynote presentation at the APAC Mobile Leaning Conference 2011 in Bandung (Indonesia’s third largest city and, as it turned out, quite a tech hotspot, too). The presentation centered on...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry