By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Web/software startups worth mentioning in this context (apart from the ones listed up above) are: (picture bookmarking service) (Twitter-based content aggregation and communication tool) (TV program recording and viewing service for mobile devices) (video editing software) (mobile browsing and...
Broadly speaking, Japan has invented the mobile web as a whole, i.e. if you look at factors like: NTT Docomo’s imode full PC web browsing on cell phones first app platform created in 2001 QR codes online billing and payment offline payments through cell phones (e-wallet) first 3G networks...
Here is the link to a column I wrote on the race between Amazon Japan and Rakuten for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan. Excerpt: The Japanese economy is mired in deflation, the population is shrinking rapidly, and retail sales are projected to fall by 1 percent annually in...
There is a Zynga Japan from now on: the Americans have bought Unoh, a Tokyo-based maker of mobile social games, for example on Mixi (Japan’s Facebook): Japan’s biggest business daily, The Nikkei, has just reported on its website that social gaming giant Zynga has acquired Tokyo-based startup...
No deal with Bing Japan: Japan’s largest website and search engine, Yahoo Japan, decided to collaborate with Google Japan today: The spectactular search deal Microsoft and Yahoo struck last summer doesn’t extend to all country markets. In Japan, Yahoo search will be powered by Google in the...
I was honored to speak at OpenWebAsia, an event that was held in Kuala Lumpur in summer 2010 (full report). Here’s a video of an interview I gave back then on Malaysia’s web industry:
I was also mentioned in this article on the event, along with other Open Web Asia speakers.
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry