By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s No. 1 recipe site Cookpad (listed, 2193) posted its newest financial report [JP, PDF] for the third quarter of fiscal 2011, and things are looking pretty good. Sales soared 61.8% to 24.11 billion yen ($29.1 million), while net profit grew 86.2% to 722 million yen ($8.7 million)...
Will Cookpad win or Rakuten Recipe? Japanese A-list blogger Akky Akimoto has written an article worth reading on how Japan’s biggest sites for recipes are battling it out currently. It looks like Rakuten Recipe is on its way to overtake Cookpad, a company that’s listed at the Tokyo...
CNET Japan wrote a pretty interesting analysis on the success of Rakuten Recipe, a recipe site Japan’s biggest e-commerce company is running. Here’s a short summary: Rakuten opened the site in October 2010. Rakuten Recipe now has 40,000 recipes and a whopping 2 million users. Yahoo...
The next tech IPO in Japan is around the corner: Super-popular recipe community Cookpad is getting listed. It seems that even in this downturn, there is still room for tech IPOs, at least in Japan. Cookpad [JP], the nation’s biggest site for sharing recipes, today announced it will be listed in the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry