Serkan Toto
Articles by Serkan Toto
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China's Rekoo To Distribute Social Games In Japan Through Cell Phone Address Books
Last summer, Beijing-based social games maker Rekoo launched “Sunshine Ranch” on Japan’s biggest social network, Mixi, and caused a sensation (with 5.1 million users today, it has …
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PostSell Adds Personalized Product Recommendations To Email Receipts
Singapore-based startup PostSell has one goal: boosting sales of online retailers through product recommendations in email receipts. In other words, it’s just like Amazon’s “Customers Who …
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InMyBag Shows What People Carry In Their Bags
It’s very hard to churn out truly unique web services these days, but here’s a new one from Japan: InMyBag, which asks one question: “What’s in your bag?” The idea is to …
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Itochu Technology Ventures Invests $2 Million In Ooyala's $22 Million Series D Round
As TechCrunch reported yesterday, video publishing platform Ooyala from the US plans to bolster its activities in Asia after raising a $22 million series D round (the company is now funded with $42 …
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Which Twitter Clients Is Japan Using? Here Are The Top 20.
Twitter is Japan country. Just take these stats: it’s estimated that currently around 10 million Japanese are registered and that 16.3% of all web users in this country tweet (considerably more …
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Mochi Media "Scores" Hit Virtual World Ameba Pico From Japan's CyberAgent
Virtual world Ameba Pico (Ameba Pigu in Japan) is a success story. The service was launched by Tokyo-based web powerhouse CyberAgent in February 2009 and went on attracting four million members [PDF] …
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Mixi Goes Facebook (II): "Mixi Check In" Is "Facebook Places"
With “Check”, Mixi copied Facebook’s “Like” function today, and while they were at it, Japan’s biggest social network copied Facebook’s location-based …
