By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Traffic-wise, Yahoo Japan is not only Japan’s most popular online portal but the country’s biggest web site. Other popular portals include Livedoor, Goo, MSN, Nifty, Biglobe, Infoseek and Excite. Much like in other parts of Asia, portals are more popular destinations for web users than...
No deal with Bing Japan: Japan’s largest website and search engine, Yahoo Japan, decided to collaborate with Google Japan today: The spectactular search deal Microsoft and Yahoo struck last summer doesn’t extend to all country markets. In Japan, Yahoo search will be powered by Google in the...
Shake-up in Asia’s e-commerce world today: Yahoo Japan and China’s Taobao, have inked deal under which both services will link their shopping sites, allowing Chinese users to shop on Yahoo Japan and Japanese users to do the same on Taobao: Yahoo Japan (Japan’s biggest website) and...
Google Japan is only the No. 2 in Japan’s lucrative search market, trailing the country’s biggest website, Yahoo Japan. But it now wants to win in Japan through boosting its mobile search: Google may be the leader in the worldwide search engine market, but in Nippon, it has some...
Why is Yahoo Japan dominant? It’s not only beating Google Japan in search, but as a portal, it’s the country’s biggest online destination: Yahoo’s stake in Yahoo Japan is often cited as one of its most valuable assets, and indeed Yahoo is considering selling it as a quick fix to...
I attended a huge IT industry event in Tokyo this week, which actually included three “mini expos” in one:– Business Blog & SNS World 08– Virtual World Conference & Expo 2008– Linux World Expo / Tokyo 2008. The event took place at Tokyo Big Sight, a huge...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry