By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Why is Yahoo Japan dominant? It’s not only beating Google Japan in search, but as a portal, it’s the country’s biggest online destination: Yahoo’s stake in Yahoo Japan is often cited as one of its most valuable assets, and indeed Yahoo is considering selling it as a quick fix to...
Yesterday, this month’s Venture Beat Networking Party took place, this time in a new venue near Roppongi. As always, the invitation-only event, backed by CNET Japan, was attended by a number (over 50) of high-profile CEOs, VCs, Tech journalists…and me. For example, I was fortunate to...
Galapagos: Japan’s mobile web has always been different than in the rest of the world. This primer tries to explain why: Over one billion cell phones have been sold worldwide in the last year, but in the US or Europe, the mobile Internet is still catching on relatively slowly. There even was...
Facebook Japan has a hard time winning against the country’s No. 1 social network, Mixi, so far. But why? Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world – a huge potential just waiting to be tapped by foreign social networks...
I met Facebook‘s co-founder and former CTO (until May this year) Adam D’Angelo yesterday in Tokyo. Adam came to Japan on a private trip. He was “guided” by his long-time friend Matyas who recently graduated from the California Institute of Technology and can speak perfect...
OK, not of all these people were VCs. Some of them are also presidents of web companies. And we were not really in the woods but in the amazingly beautiful Fukui prefecture, hometown of Taisuke Fukuno. All this under the umbrella of Venture Beat, to my knowledge the most influential network in...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry