By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Rakuten has announced the acquisition of Buy.com today. The expansion to the USA can now begin: When I covered Rakuten back in July last year, I called it “the biggest e-commerce site you never heard of”. And in fact, the eponymous Japanese company behind the B2B2C market place (which is currently...
Here is the link to a column I wrote on Japan’s green energy sector for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan. Excerpt: When it comes to saving energy, Japan has a lot to teach other industrialized countries. The resource-poor nation was swept up in energy conservation...
DeNA brings Mobagetown (aka Mobage) to international users by way of iPhone. The company rolled out Mobage’s iPhone version, dubbed MiniNation, yesterday: Japan has two listed mobile gaming companies with a multi-billion US-dollar market capitalization, GREE ($2.7 billion) and DeNA ($4.2...
Shake-up in Asia’s e-commerce world today: Yahoo Japan and China’s Taobao, have inked deal under which both services will link their shopping sites, allowing Chinese users to shop on Yahoo Japan and Japanese users to do the same on Taobao: Yahoo Japan (Japan’s biggest website) and...
Here is the link to a column I wrote on how Japanese electronics makers have overcome the financial crisis for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan. Excerpt: Japan’s technology sector is currently in the process of transforming itself once again. But this time, there is no...
Here is the link to a column I wrote on foreign Internet startups in Japan for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan. Excerpt: There is one thing three of America’s biggest web services—Ebay, MySpace and Facebook—have in common: Despite being household names in large parts of...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry