By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Sony, Matsushita, Hitachi, Toshiba and Sharp have agreed upon broadcasting interactive ads for TVs with Internet access. The companies plan to set up a joint venture. Japanese viewers will be able to see the commercials from autumn this year. The companies will produce online content like news...
The Nikkei Business Daily, Japan’s most famous business paper, reported in a recent issue that Kenko-plus Inc. (Japanese only) plans to set up a new kind of restaurant research site later this year. Kenko-plus is a relatively small entity based in Osaka and calls itself a “IT & Bio-Informatics...
Livedoor (Japanese only), THE Internet company in Japan, is set to sell its shares of its software sales subsidiary Yayoi (Japanese only) later this month to MBK, a quite famous private equity fund active in Japan, China and South Korea. MBK is pumping a whopping 71 billion Yen into the deal. That...
This first blog entry already deals with a hot topic, Japan eyeing a post-Internet network. Two weeks ago, the Japanese communications ministry (総務省: Soumusho) said the new technology is a must regarding current security issues and quality problems on the web. The new Internet architecture is...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry