By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Here are a couple of VERY useful calendars for tech and web freaks who want to plan ahead for industry events of all kinds:
IT events in Japan (in Japanese, recommended)
ZD NET’s calendar (Japanese )
@IT’s calendar (Japanese)
StartupDating Tokyo (event newsletter in Japanese, English)
I attended a huge IT industry event in Tokyo this week, which actually included three “mini expos” in one:– Business Blog & SNS World 08– Virtual World Conference & Expo 2008– Linux World Expo / Tokyo 2008. The event took place at Tokyo Big Sight, a huge...
My friend Umihiko Namekawa from Techcrunch Japan just posted an article in his blog about the upcoming Techcrunch 50 competition (organized by Techcrunch USA and to be held in September in San Francisco). Following the abscence of Japanese web companies in last year’s Techcrunch 40 event...
As the title of this post suggests, I am now a member of the almighty Techcrunch empire. To be exact, I am actually the only blogger from the Techcrunch (USA) network who is based in Japan. I started writing for Crunchgear a couple of days ago. Crunchgear is the sister blog of Techcrunch, covering...
Facebook‘s CEO Marc Zuckerberg personally traveled to Tokyo to announce the launch of the Japanese version of his super-successful social network. Actually he came for just a day (on May 20th), gave a few interviews telling why Japanese people should join Facebook and left. It goes without...
Japanese web and telecom giant Softbank and China-based B2B platform Alibaba are collaborating. 65 percent of Alibaba Japan will be owned by Softbank, the rest by Alibaba’s parent company. The companies are investing 20 million USD into the joint venture. There are over 1 million products...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry