By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
The YAPC Asia in Tokyo ended yesterday. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend (and try to understand as a Non-Techie) all presentations: I was simply too busy.Next year, I will be there again (here is my former post on the event). On Monday, I will be attending the JUI 2008 conference in Tokyo...
Following the tokyo2point0 event the day before yesterday, I took part in the Yet another Perl conference (aka YAPC Asia) in Tokyo today. The event which will go on for one more day is taking place on the Tokyo Institute of Technology campus in Ookayama. The YAPC Asia is a HUGE conference: A...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry