By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mobile social gaming in Japan is a huge market. One of the leading companies in that field, Tokyo–based GREE, has scored a big IPO today: The tech IPO is not completely dead. Last Wednesday, Japan’s third largest social network GREE, launched in 2004 by the company of the same name, listed...
Asiajin, one of the very few (and I dare say most successful) blogs in English focusing on the Japanese and Asian web industry, is now 1 year old. 233 blogs were written in 365 days, which is not bad for a non-commercial blog. Details can be found here. It has been very cool working with the...
Silicon Valley hero Jason Calacanis (founder of Weblogs and Mahalo, legendary blogger,VC etc.) is on his first visit to Japan (which lasts until Wednesday) and I had the possibility to meet him tonight. What can I say, it was pretty cool to talk to Jason and also meet Japan’s best-known...
Today and yesterday, Joi Ito’s Tokyo-based Digital Garage held the New Context Conference, an event which (at least for this year) took over the place of a relevant conference for the local web industry (instead of the Web 2.0 Tokyo, which was canceled). The conference slogan was “Open...
Yesterday, I came back to Tokyo from the TechCrunch50 conference that took place in San Francisco. Here are 10 things I found particularly interesting about the event (in no particular order): 1)The three days of the conference began with a professional singer who sang the Star-Spangled Banner...
I am at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco now, the web industry conference/contest organized by mega Tech blog TechCrunch – which I happen to write for ;). Today (Wednesday) is the last day of the conference. TechCrunch50 is much better than I expected actually: A positive vibe, perfectly...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry