Facebook, Mixi, Twitter, GREE or Mobage? This is an anecdotal list of social media usage in Japan by brands, but it’s interesting. Tokyo-based ad and marketing company Agile Media Network, showed the following graph during the company’s Social Media Summit (via Internet Watch). The...
For LTE: SoftBank Partners Up With Telcos From China, India And The UK
Japan’s telecommunications giant SoftBank has partnered up with China Mobile, Bharti Airtel (India) and Vodafone on Monday to set up the so-called “Global TD-LTE Initiative”. The goal here is to reduce development costs for TD-LTE-based mobile software and hardware by streamlining...
Overview Of Japan’s Smartphone Market
How many smartphones are there in Japan, who is offering them and what are the specs? The following site provides a good, up-to-date overview of the smartphone situation in this country. The site shows that Android is rapidly popularity in Japan: Link (Japanese only) Link (same site, under Google...
Japan Internet Stocks: Two Good Resources In English
You want to track Japanese Internet Stocks in English, and Rakuten, DeNA (Mobage), GREE, Mixi, Kakaku, Yahoo Japan, Digital Garage, Dwango are among the listed web companies you follow? Then you should check out these sites (both are available in English, next to Japanese): Netindex Japan...
New IPO: Online Train Timetable Ekitan Gets Listed
There’s a new tech IPO in Japan: Online timetable service Ekitan (fee-based on mobile phones) will get listed in Tokyo: An online train timetable service that goes IPO? It may sound ludicrous to people living outside Japan, but Tokyo-based Ekitan is doing exactly that. The company will be...
My answer on Quora to: “What are the fastest growing web services in Japan in 2010?”
There are many examples, but these came to my mind right now. 1) Twitter: Twitter has been growing at a spectacular pace in 2010 in Japan. They now have well over 10 million users, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the real number would be closer to 15 million (Twitter isn’t providing...