By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Kakaku has released [ENG, PDF] new online access information on its most important properties for March 2011, the eponymous price comparison portal and restaurant guide (and Gourmet Navigator competitor) Tabelog. Kakaku can be pretty happy about the development on a year-on-year basis, even though...
Kakaku, which runs Japan’s leading price comparison engine of the same name, has released [ENG, PDF] website access stats for its two biggest properties, Kakaku itself and restaurant guide Tabelog. In a nutshell, things are looking pretty good on a year-on-year basis. Kakaku.com saw 30.11...
Just a small note, but it was worth a press release for Kakaku and shows that Facebook is becoming more and more relevant for e-commerce companies in Japan: Kakaku now has a fan page on Facebook. So far, not even 200 people have pushed the “like” button and the news feed just shows some...
Kakaku.com, Japan’s leading price comparison engine, announced it has inked a deal with the Japanese government under which the company will provide price data to the Bank of Japan. Kakaku said it has provided a data set on how prices of TVs and related products in Japan have evolved over the...
It’s safe to call Japan’s biggest price comparison engine, Kakaku.com, an iconic web brand in this country. The company made $31 million in net profit in fiscal 2009 – that’s 11 times what it was generating when it went public in October 2003. What’s interesting is...
As food and cuisine play an important part in Japanese culture and everyday life, there are many sites that resemble Yelp over here. According to a study by Nielsen NetRatings Japan from February 2010, the biggest, in terms of reach, is Tabelog () with 12.4%. Right behind that site is Gourmet...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry