By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Online fashion mall Zozotown (background) is seeing a rapid growth in traffic, if a new report by Nielsen is to be believed. According to Nielsen Japan [PDF], Zozotown’s PC site saw a total of four million unique users, up from slightly over 2.5 million in November. Nielsen identifies three...
Reuters just reported that Yahoo may finally be really willing to transfer its stake (35%) in Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, to SoftBank, Yahoo Japan’s other major shareholder. SoftBank owns more than Yahoo itself (37.36%). Rumors about a possible exit by Yahoo have been...
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, is partnering up with US-based startup Ooyala to launch a video sharing platform. This won’t be, however, Yahoo Japan’s answer to YouTube (there is no such thing): the site will be rather aimed at businesses. The new platform will make...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social games platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage on mobile phones), has been off to a good start after the launch in the fall of 2010: in January 2011, DeNA reported that Yahoo Mobage crossed the 2 million mark after 104 days. If data coming from Nielsen Japan is...
Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA’s social game platform on the PC, gets a new hit title from Tecmo Koei. Players wanting to register for an early version of “Nobunyaga No Yabou” (Nobunyaga’s Ambition”, a war simulation game), could do so today. However...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry