Not many people even in Japan know that Yahoo Japan is running a social network: dubbed Yahoo Days, the social network is embedded in the Yahoo Japan ecosystem of sub-sites and was established in 2006 (its used to be called Yahoo! 360° in the first few months). But now Yahoo Japan announced their...
Yahoo Loco: Yahoo Japan Launches Location-Based Servive [Search Engines]
Japan’s biggest website, Yahoo Japan, has announced a new location-based service called Yahoo Loco yesterday. It’s actually not an entirely new site, as Yahoo Loco mashes up a total of seven different existing Yahoo Japan services, for example Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Coupons or Yahoo Gourmet...
PC Social Gaming Platform Yahoo-Mobage Hits 4 Million Users [Social Games]
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage on mobile phones), passed the 4 million user mark on May 17. It took Yahoo Mobage 51 days to get to the first million members, 53 more days to add another one million, 61 days more to reach 3 million users, and...
Yahoo Japan Reports 14th Straight Yearly Profit Increase [Financial Reports]
Japan’s biggest search engine, portal and site, Yahoo Japan, has posted some pretty good financials yesterday. Net profit for the January-March 2011 quarter grew 4.3% from 2010 on a continuing increase in advertising sales, which means even the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March...
Eco-Farm: Gameloft’s New Social Game On Yahoo Mobage [Social Games]
I like most of Gameloft’s games, and now the French company has launched a new title on Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform from DeNA and Yahoo Japan. As the name suggests, Eco-Farm is a farming simulation. Eco-Farm is the localized version of Green Farm, a social game Gameloft...
Yahoo Japan Releases iPhone App For Voice Search [Search Engines]
Google offers it, now Yahoo Japan offers it, too (on smartphones): voice search. Yahoo Japan Labs today released an iPhone app [iTunes link] on the Japanese App Store that lets users access the site via voice controls. In this video (not embeddable), you can see the user “asking” for...