Serkan Toto
Articles by Serkan Toto
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Q&A: What's The Japanese Equivalent Of [enter foreign web service here]?
Are Japanese people using different websites than users in other countries? Back in July 2008 and 2009, we made two lists that showed some similarities and differences in usage, and now it’s …
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Livlis: Twitter-Based Barter Service
It’s no secret anymore that Japan loves Twitter, and as such, there’s a whole bunch of Twitter-based services coming out of Japan. One of these is a new site called Livlis, which lets …
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15 New Games: GREE Beefs Up Smartphone Offering
Another day, another GREE-related news item on Asiajin. Today, it’s about GREE’s web site for smartphones for which new games by third-party developers have been added. If you access GREE …
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For $26 Million: GREE Acquires Mobile Ad Startup Atlantis
M&A-related news are relatively rare in Japan’s startup scene, but today we can report that mobile social gaming juggernaut GREE has acquired Tokyo-based ad exchange service Atlantis for …
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English, Please: Social Gaming Giant GREE Seeks To Hire International Staff
Tokyo-based mobile social gaming juggernaut GREE (22 million users, US$3 billion market cap) seems to intensify its international efforts. As announced by CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka back in June last year, …
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Social Gaming Platform Mobage-town Gets Monthly Price Plan For Virtual Items
Earlier this week, Japanese mobile social gaming juggernaut DeNA added a new pricing plan to its super-popular Mobage-town platform (which currently boasts 22 million users): users can now pay for …
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Social Commerce Platform Flutterscape Cooperates With Human Translation Startup myGengo
Two Tokyo-based startups, social commerce site Flutterscape and human translation platform myGengo, have announced a partnership that will make it easier for Japanese Flutterscape users to post …
