Serkan Toto
Articles by Serkan Toto
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The Nikkei: KDDI To Start Offering The iPad Mini From November
The existence of a smaller version of the iPad hasn’t even been confirmed by Apple yet, but here is something fresh from the rumor mill in Japan: according to a report published in The Nikkei …
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For $12.8 Million: Yahoo Japan Acquires Decopic Creator Community Factory
Acquisitions are relatively rare in Japan’s tech startup scene, but today Yahoo Japan caused a splash when the country’s biggest web company announced it acquired Tokyo-based Community …
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Nico Nico Douga Hits 28 Million Users, Generates US$46 Million In Sales Last Quarter
Nico Nico Douga, Japan’s answer to YouTube, is still growing nicely, five years after launch. Dwango, the Tokyo-based company behind the popular service, released its financial report [PDF] for …
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SoftBank Starts Using The 900MHz "Platinum Band"
There can be no doubt that SoftBank is the mobile carrier with the weakest network among Japan’s big three telcos, following that of NTT Docomo and KDDI. But now there is hope that things will …
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Rakuten Starts Featuring Pinterest On Its Japanese Marketplace And Other Properties
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten (US$15 billion market cap, about 80 million user accounts in Japan) has started featuring Pinterest on some of its biggest websites yesterday. Big R …
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Yahoo Japan Teams Up With Recipe Portal Cookpad
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website with 1.6 billion page views per day, will enter a partnership with Cookpad, a popular recipe site, according to a report by business daily The Nikkei. …
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Dentsu Buys 15% Stake In Tokyo-Based Web Company Kakaku.Com
Tokyo-based Dentsu, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world, today announced [JP, PDF] it has acquired 15.06% of Kakaku.com, Japan’s largest price comparison site and community …
