Serkan Toto
Articles by Serkan Toto
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Japan's Mobile Web Market Now Worth $17 billion. Virtual Items: $500 million.
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications published an interesting report [PDF] about the country’s market for mobile content and services this week. According to the …
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GREE's operating profit jumps 130% to $222 million in last fiscal
Japan’s mobile social gaming giant GREE is becoming so successful, it’s scary. According to Japanese daily The Nikkei, the Tokyo-based company’s operating profit ballooned to 19.5 …
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GREE Opens Its Platform, Attracts 30 Game Companies From The Start
Major Japanese mobile gaming social network GREE has taken a significant step yesterday: it’s now possible [PDF] for third parties to release games on the site (the move was announced back in …
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Mixi Introduces New Function To Find And Connect With Colleagues
Japan’s biggest social network Mixi (which crossed the 20 million member mark in April) may have just found yet another way to expand its user base and boost engagement. Mixi yesterday …
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Japanese Venture Capital Investments Take Nosedive in 2009
Japan’s venture capital industry is in a very difficult situation. That’s, in a nutshell, the result of a recent Nikkei survey. According to the paper, investments from the nation’s …
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Join The Open Web Asia Conference In Malaysia On July 13-14 (Discount For Asiajin Readers)
It’s about time that South East Asia, home to 600 million people, gets its own web industry event. The Open Web Asia conference, which is going to be held in Kuala Lumpur on July 13-14, is the …
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Japanese recipe site Cookpad in overdrive, doubles sales and profits
In case you didn’t know: Japan is the only country in the world that has a listed recipe site, Cookpad. After going IPO at the “Mothers” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange last July, its …
