Tag: Yahoo! Japan

Yahoo Japan Teams Up With Recipe Portal Cookpad

Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website with 1.6 billion page views per day, will enter a partnership with Cookpad, a popular recipe site, according to a report by business daily The Nikkei. Much like Yahoo in the US, Yahoo Japan runs a number of vertical services under its portal: one of them, Yahoo Recipe, will… Continue reading Yahoo Japan Teams Up With Recipe Portal Cookpad

Yahoo! Japan To Close Yahoo! Kukuru, Naver Matome Rip-off

Yahoo! Japan, the largest website in the country, who holds a lot of successful sub-services under its brand, announced today the termination of their Yahoo! Kururu, user-generated summary site. The service launched September 2011, is often called as “Yahoo!’s Naver Matome”, as the service seemed quite similar to the already-successful info-aggregation site Naver Matome. The… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan To Close Yahoo! Kukuru, Naver Matome Rip-off

Yahoo! Japan Releases Yahoo! Browser for Android

Yahoo! Japan, the largest and the most popular website in Japan, offers a new web browser for Android for free. The name is Yahoo! Browser. It starts from a speed dial page like Opera, Do Yahoo! Search on Yahoo! Browser, The browser offers semicircular menu, which shows up when you touch the either side edge… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Releases Yahoo! Browser for Android

Yahoo! Japan Invests And Allies Office Items Supplier Askul

Askul is a Japanese mail-order/online-commerce company offers office supplies. As the company name has the same sounds with “Asukuru”, which means “(it) comes tomorrow” in Japanese, the company boasts fast shipment to offices around the nation. On April 27, Yahoo! Japan, the largest web company in Japan, announced that they had agreed with Askul for… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Invests And Allies Office Items Supplier Askul

Yahoo! Japan News Introduces Facebook Comment System

Japan’s largest news portal Yahoo! Japan’s Yahoo! News silently added Facebook comments on news pages, between Yahoo! Japan’s own comment system and Realtime-search results from Twitter. According to an article [J] on How-to Sharing site Nanapi by its CEO Kensuke Furukawa, Yahoo! Japan’s COO Kentaro Kawanabe, who were recently appointed, posted a test comment on… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan News Introduces Facebook Comment System

Yahoo! Japan Top Page Now Shows Twitter’s Top 3 Trending Keywords

Japan’s largest web service Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that its PC version top page, the most accessed page in Japan, starts offering the top three trending keywords from Twitter, named with “Wadai Nau”(nau=now, current topics) As you see, the place the keywords showed is just under the top news box (from Yahoo! News), the prime… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Top Page Now Shows Twitter’s Top 3 Trending Keywords

Ameba, Yahoo! JAPAN To Initiate Joint Advertising Product

CyberAgent’s [J] community service “Ameba” has announced that they along with Yahoo’s [J] “Yahoo! JAPAN” will sell the joint product “Broad Canvas [Yahoo! JAPAN×Ameba]” which combines both company’s advertisements for smartphone. “Broad Canvas [Yahoo! JAPAN×Ameba]” is an advertisement product combining Ameba’s “Ameba for SmartPhone Touch Canvas” and Yahoo JAPAN’s “Smartphone Yahoo! JAPAN Smart Panel Expand.”… Continue reading Ameba, Yahoo! JAPAN To Initiate Joint Advertising Product

Yahoo Hoshou: Yahoo Japan Starts “Safety” Service For Online Shoppers

Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, is a major force in the domestic e-commerce sector. The transaction value for their auction service “Yahoo Auction” (by far the biggest in Japan) and “Yahoo Japan Shopping” reached a staggering 950 billion yen (US$12 billion) last fiscal. Reason enough for the company to announce a new service for… Continue reading Yahoo Hoshou: Yahoo Japan Starts “Safety” Service For Online Shoppers

Yahoo! Box: Yahoo! Japan’s Online Storage Service Tops One Million Users

As the country’s biggest website, Yahoo Japan is constantly rolling out new products like mobile apps, social networking services or games. Some of them fail, and some of them turn out to be successful: Yahoo Box!, the online storage solution Yahoo Japan launched in October, belongs to the latter group. The company pushed out a… Continue reading Yahoo! Box: Yahoo! Japan’s Online Storage Service Tops One Million Users