Serkan Toto
Articles by Serkan Toto
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Technorati Japan Closes Service October 23
Technorati in the US relaunched today, introducing a set of new features and a fresh overall look, and received a 2 million USD cash injection yesterday, but a few hours ago Technorati Japan has …
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Top 50 Of Japan's Most Rapidly Growing Tech Startups. GREE Is No. 1.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has compiled a list of the 50 fastest-growing tech firms in Japan [JP, PDF], and it’s quite interesting. The so-called Nippon Technology FAST50 was released yesterday …
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Japan's No. 1 Online Mall Rakuten Buys Into Thailand's Leading E-Commerce Company Tarad
Japan’s biggest online shopping mall Rakuten (nearly 50 million registered users in Japan/Asiajin articles) today announced [JP] a capital and business alliance with Bangkok-based Tarad Dot Com …
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China's Baidu Launches Mobile Search Service In Japan, Includes Emoji Search
China’s answer to Google, Baidu, has launched a number of search services for cell phones in Japan today. “Baidu Mobile” consists of four main elements: PC web search, mobile web …
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Japan's No. 2 Mobile Social Gaming GREE Sues No. 1 DeNA (Mobage-town) Over Fishing Game
Bad blood in Japan’s mobile social gaming scene: The country’s second biggest company in that area, GREE [JP, Asiajin articles], has filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court today, …
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In Japan, Freemium Works. Nico Nico Douga paid member user base passes 500k
One of the big differences between the web in Japan versus America or Europe is the way sites are being monetized. Generally speaking, the level of acceptance for the freemium model seems to be …
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Japan's DeNA brings its mobile social gaming platform MobaMingle to India
Tokyo-based mobile social gaming giant DeNA takes the international version of its super-successful gaming platform Mobage-town [JP, PC version], Mobamingle, to India (find some detailed background …
