By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I am at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco now, the web industry conference/contest organized by mega Tech blog TechCrunch – which I happen to write for ;). Today (Wednesday) is the last day of the conference. TechCrunch50 is much better than I expected actually: A positive vibe, perfectly...
I attended this month’s Mobile Monday Tokyo event, which took place in a bar in Akasaka. Two presentations were given and both were focused on the venture capital industry in Japan. Aki Ohashi, partner at venture capital firm NGI, explained how to get financial support from companies like...
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...
Yesterday, this month’s Venture Beat Networking Party took place, this time in a new venue near Roppongi. As always, the invitation-only event, backed by CNET Japan, was attended by a number (over 50) of high-profile CEOs, VCs, Tech journalists…and me. For example, I was fortunate to...
Galapagos: Japan’s mobile web has always been different than in the rest of the world. This primer tries to explain why: Over one billion cell phones have been sold worldwide in the last year, but in the US or Europe, the mobile Internet is still catching on relatively slowly. There even was...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry