By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Sorry for this interjection (not a typical blog post), but in case you didn’t already, please feel free to connect with me via the following social media and channels: Email My company’s website (Kantan Games Inc.) LinkedIn Twitter (If you are interested in news about mobile games in...
Tokyo-based MM Research Institute released an overview on the Japanese market for tablets yesterday. According to the report, a total of 7.48 million units were shipped domestically in fiscal 2013 (April 2013-March 2014), which is up 30.5% year-on-year. This number is slightly above the projection...
Today is my last day as staff writer for TechCrunch.com. Thank you to everybody at TechCrunch, first and foremost Michael Arrington (now a venture capitalist), Erick Schonfeld (now editor-in-chief), and John Biggs (editor of TechCrunch Gadgets) for the last four years. I also thank the people at...
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan’s web, mobile, and social gaming industries during an event in Tokyo (on search engines, e-commerce, social networks, mobile web usage and the basic structure of the social gaming industry in this country, to be more exact). Companies and...
Earlier this month, I was lucky to spend a few days in Indonesia where I was honored to give a keynote presentation at the APAC Mobile Leaning Conference 2011 in Bandung (Indonesia’s third largest city and, as it turned out, quite a tech hotspot, too). The presentation centered on...
Nice day for online train timetable service Ekitan: after announcing their IPO in January, the company got listed today at the Mothers Market (for high-growth and emerging stocks) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (code 3646). The stock’s opening price stood at 5,530 yen, which is 98.9% higher than...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry