By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I am excited to speak at the Asia Pacific ICT Summit 2012, which takes place next week in Singapore (March 13-14). As the name suggests, the event focuses on digital media, and information and communications technology (ICT) in Asia. The summit is put together by Singapore infocomm Technology...
The Sparxup Awards 2011 event for Indonesian startups in Jakarta has ended over the last weekend, and I was lucky to be chosen to hold the keynote presentation. My presentation’s topic was “Innovation, Imitation & Hyper-Localization In Asia”, and here are the slides (direct...
If you happen to read this and reside in Japan, chances are you might be interested in the so-called Tofu Project x Open Network Lab day that’s going to take place this Friday (September 9) in Tokyo. The event is sponsored by seed accelerator Open Network Lab and JP Morgan Japan. Here’s...
Last month, I attended an event in San Francisco entitled “Social Networks and Games: Transition from Web to Mobile in Japan and the US” when I spent a few days in California. The event, which was organized by the local office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) was very...
I am currently attending Digital Garage‘s New Context Conference 2011 Spring in Ebisu/Tokyo, a web industry conference first started in 2006. The general topic this year: Social media played an important role in the spread of information in the current Higashi-Nihon Earthquake. Twitter and...
Last year, CyberAgent (its investment subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures, to be more precise) launched Startups2010, a program that was supposed to identify promising tech startups in Japan (report on Asiajin – actually the company started in 2009). And now CyberAgent has announced it’s...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry