By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Here is the link to a column on Japan’s venture capital scene for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan. Excerpt: The adage “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” may just well describe in a nutshell the vicious cycle that the Japanese venture capital (VC) market seems to be...
Slightly off-topic, but here is the link to a column I wrote on Japan’s robot industry I wrote for the journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan: Excerpt: Over one million industrial robots are currently toiling around the world, most of them in Japan. There are 295 of these...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry