Yahoo! Mobage, a joint social game networking service for PC run by Japan’s largest web service Yahoo! Japan and mobile social game giant DeNA, starts a present campaign celebrating its 6 million users registration. If you play any games on Yahoo! Mobage first in time, and purchase anything on selected stores on Yahoo! Shopping, you… Continue reading Yahoo! Mobage Celebrates 6 Million Uses Registration
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Yahoo! Market Opens For Android By Yahoo! Japan
Yahoo! Japan started its own Android Market, Yahoo! Market [J] on October 9. The market is based on Android applications information from the official Android Market, comes with Android app news provided by several Japanese Android app review media/blogs, such like Octoba, Sumaho-Girl, Andronavi, EX Droid, giveUp de Android, etc. Over 300 reviews per month… Continue reading Yahoo! Market Opens For Android By Yahoo! Japan
Yahoo Box: Yahoo Japan Starts Online Storage Service
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, has launched a new service dubbed Yahoo Box today. Yahoo Box is an online storage service with three plans: 5GB are given for free to any user with a Yahoo Japan ID 50GB is the maximum space premium members get for free (a Yahoo Japan premium membership costs US$4.50… Continue reading Yahoo Box: Yahoo Japan Starts Online Storage Service
Yahoo! Japan PR Diva Moves To Digital Garage
Popular blog Netafull reported [J] that Risa Nakanishi (@BuzzTum), who has been serving for Yahoo! Japan for 12 years, sometimes called “PR Diva”, (as Yahoo! Japan has been the champion last decade) one of the center figure of Japanese web industry, left Yahoo! and joined Digital Garage(DG), the most known by its founder Joi Itoh.… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan PR Diva Moves To Digital Garage
Yahoo! Japan To End Social Network Yahoo! Days
Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that they would cease a social networking service Yahoo! Days on October 3, 2011. On July 6, most of activities around messages, photos and community will be disabled. My page above showed me no recent diaries and messages of friends… Yahoo! Days, which started in February 2006 as Yahoo! 360°, the… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan To End Social Network Yahoo! Days
Rakuten Switches Portal Search Backend To Google
Rakuten, Japan’s huge online mall, announced on 10th that they are to use Google search on their portal Infoseek Rakuten. Infoseek Rakuten has been using Yahoo! Japan search backend, and requested Japan Fair Trade Commission to investigate if Yahoo! Japan-Google search alliance is antitrust. Naver, Korean-originated search engine running Japanese search site, announced [J] on… Continue reading Rakuten Switches Portal Search Backend To Google
Yahoo! Mobage Passes 3 Million Users In 5 Months, Facebook Falls Down To 6th Position
Yahoo! Mobage [J], a joint PC social game platform by two Japanese web gorillas Yahoo! Japan and DeNA, announced [J] that the number of their users passed over three million in 5 months since its official open on October 1st, 2010. 3 million is bigger than 2.55 million, the number of active users Facebook Japan… Continue reading Yahoo! Mobage Passes 3 Million Users In 5 Months, Facebook Falls Down To 6th Position
How to sell 16 iPhone Apps At Once
A year ago, we reviewed Yahoo! Japan’s 16 free iPhone applications which icons will show a (especially in Japan and Asian countries) popular Anime character Doraemon on your home screen. A Japanese blog iPhone Games [J] lists more of similar iPhone apps set, like Gundam, which is offered also by Yahoo! Japan, Yahoo! Japan published… Continue reading How to sell 16 iPhone Apps At Once
Yahoo! Japan Begins Its Own Application Platform YAP
Yahoo! Japan announced [J] their entering application platform competition with new Yahoo! Application Platform (Yahoo! Appli). The release was done on November 25th and it launched on the same day with 10 third-party applications. You might already know that Yahoo! Japan, No.1 website in Japan, is not really identical with U.S. Yahoo!, who has been… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Begins Its Own Application Platform YAP
Yahoo! Japan’s Search Engine All Switched To Google’s Confirmed By Y!J President Inoue
According to Jiji, Yahoo! Japan president Masahiro Inoue confirmed that their backend search engine switch had finished on December 1st. Japan Fair Trade Commission yesterday declared that the coalition between Yahoo! Japan and Google around search technology is not an unfair monopoly. He also said that another big switch to Google’s technology, ads network system… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan’s Search Engine All Switched To Google’s Confirmed By Y!J President Inoue