Serkan Toto
Articles by Serkan Toto
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Mixi Goes Facebook (I): "Mixi Check" Is Facebook's "Like"
Facebook announced (and rolled it out) earlier this year, and now Japan’s biggest social network, Mixi, announced it, too: A function to share what you “like” on external sites with …
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Japanese Social Marketplace Flutterscape Gets $300,000 Seed Money
A Japanese Internet startup that not only has international ambitions but that’s also able to receive a substantial amount of seed money is a very, very rare beast. But today, we can report …
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Augmented Reality App Sekai Camera Now Available On The Web
Japan’s Augmented Reality poster company Tonchidot has brought its hit app Sekai Camera to the web. It’s now the fourth platform the app is available on, following versions for the …
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Groupon To Buy Majority Stake In Japanese Clone Qpod
Everyone in Japan’s startup scene has been guessing which of the about 20 local clones Chicago-based Groupon would buy for about 3 months now. And today it came to light that the Americans have …
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Yahoo Japan Buys Location-Based Mobile Advertising Company Cirius
Something pretty rare happened today in Japan’s web industry: a big Internet company acquired a smaller one. In this case, Yahoo Japan (the nation’s biggest website) snatched up all …
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What Are Japan’s Top 5 Social Services? Here's A Quick Overview.
Following yesterday’s news that Japan’s mobile social gaming giant GREE now hit 21.25 million users, our very own Akky Akimoto has done some research and created the graph you can see …
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BREAKING: GREE's Financial Report Suggests It's Japan's Biggest Social Network Now
Japan’s mobile gaming giant GREE just released [PDF] their financial report for the April-June quarter, and it seems the company is running from one record to the next. Year-on-year, all …
