By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Should Yahoo sell its 34.78% stake in Yahoo Japan? The question has been asked for several years now if Yahoo Japan (founded in 1996) should become more independent of its US counterpart. SoftBank owns more than Yahoo itself (37.36%). Yahoo Japan is currently worth $21.5 billion at the Tokyo Stock...
It took a while, but according to The Nikkei, Google Japan is finally introducing TrueView ads on the Japanese version of YouTube. TrueView lets viewers on YouTube decide over which ads they want to watch or ignore. The obvious goal here is to get new advertisers and establish a new revenue stream...
Yahoo Japan just announced the opening of the so-called Yahoo Japan Application Platform (YAP). The company is asking third-party developers to provide applications, which could be anything from games to productivity apps. For Yahoo Japan, the app section means a new revenue stream, as the apps can...
Good news for Yahoo Japan and Google Japan: The country’s Fair Trade Commission gave the green light to a proposed cooperation between Yahoo Japan and Google, stating that the deal wouldn’t “immediately” violate antitrust rules. In July this year, Yahoo Japan announced it...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage) jointly launched, is off to a good start: Nielsen Japan is reporting that in August 2010, before the integration of Yahoo Mobage into Yahoo Games, Yahoo saw 5.3 million UU per month. On September 21, Yahoo Mobage...
As food and cuisine play an important part in Japanese culture and everyday life, there are many sites that resemble Yelp over here. According to a study by Nielsen NetRatings Japan from February 2010, the biggest, in terms of reach, is Tabelog () with 12.4%. Right behind that site is Gourmet...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry