Serkan Toto
Articles by Serkan Toto
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EC Navi Establishes "EC Navi Ventures", Plans To Invest In Japanese And Asian Startups
Things haven’t been looking good for many Japanese VC firms lately, but that didn’t stop Tokyo-based e-commerce company EC Navi, which today announced the establishment of a VC arm called …
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Prime Minister’s Office of Japan Launches Facebook Page
The Prime Minister’s Office of Japan has announced the launch of an official Facebook page today. The first update reads: This is the official Facebook page of Prime Minister’s office of Japan. …
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Docomo Merges i-Mode And Smartphone Businesses
There is no reason for i-mode provider NTT Docomo to give up on its highly profitable mobile Internet service for feature phones as long as it makes money, but Japan’s biggest mobile carrier is …
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Japan's Online Music Market Shrank For First Time Ever Last Year
Bad news for the Japanese music industry: the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) yesterday released [information in English] the sales figures of digital delivery in 2010 and said that …
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Uncer: Japan Now Has Kind Of A Quora Clone
One of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, Q&A site Quora (of which I am a big fan), now has a Japanese clone of sorts. Dubbed Uncer (short for “uncertain”), the site is probably …
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Japan's Book Publishers Decide To Go With EPUB Standard
Japan’s book market is said to be worth around $24 billion (it’s the world’s biggest and about 4x the size of the local video game industry), which means it’s not a big …
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NHN Plans To Flood Japan With Smartphone Games
NHN Japan, the local arm of South Korean web giant NHN and operator of online gaming portal Hangame, is planning to seriously step up game development for smartphones, especially on Android. …
