Serkan Toto
Articles by Serkan Toto
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Which Foreign Startups Are Doing Well In Japan "Under The Radar"?
It’s no secret that in recent years, quite a few foreign (mostly American) web brands have made it big in Japan: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon etc. But what about startups that …
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Japan Gets "How To Use Instagram" Book
The Japanese love books (the book market over here is worth $23 billion annually) and cool mobile apps, for example the popular photo sharing app Instagram. Combine these two phenomena and you get a …
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BeeTV: Docomo's Mobile TV Service Hits 1.5 Million User Mark
Mobile TV is often cited as being a dream of the future in most markets, but it has been around in Japan, the world’s most advanced mobile nation, for years. The majority of the 100+ handsets …
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Who Are Japan's Top 10 Celebrity Bloggers?
Tokyo-based CyberAgent, one of Japan’s oldest web companies (founded in 1998 and currently listed with a $1.7 billion market cap), issued two interesting press releases earlier this week. On …
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Online Train Timetable Service Ekitan Goes IPO
An online train timetable service that goes IPO? It may sound ludicrous to people living outside Japan, but Tokyo-based Ekitan is doing exactly that. The company will be listed at the Mothers Market …
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Japan's Mobile Social Gaming Giant GREE Partners With China's Tencent (QQ)
Big news from Asia’s social gaming world today: Tokyo-based mobile social games juggernaut GREE ($3 billion market cap) just announced it will tie up with China’s biggest web company …
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For Social App Development: Mixi And CyberAgent Launch Joint Venture
Japan’s social apps boom isn’t ending: Today, two of the country’s biggest web companies, namely Mixi and CyberAgent, announced they will launch a joint venture to produce social …
