Yahoo Japan announced today at their Store Conference 2013 that they would remove fees from Yahoo Shopping and Yahoo Auctions services. According to the announcement, they are hoping to increase the number of merchants and the available products sold and … Read More
Rakuten, who is one of Japan’s biggest and most successful e-commerce companies announced that they invested US$100 million to Pinterest. In recent years, Rakuten has been aiming to replicate their success in Japan in the global market. They have aquired … Read More
Yahoo!, SoftBank and Alibaba Group jointly announced that they have reached an agreement on Alipay. Under the agreement, Alibaba Group will continue participating in Alipay’s future financial performance, including a future IPO or other liquidity events. The agreement structures the … Read More
Yahoo Japan announced that their year on year net profit rose 7.69% in last quarter (April-June) in advertising revenue. When Yahoo Japan decided to adopt Google’s technology in its web searches in last December, many expressed their concern that it … Read More
Yahoo Japan will run a Yahoo Point Campaign in March. During a month of March, all registered users (Yahoo ID is required) will gain Yahoo points every time they search. Members can use Yahoo points to pay for several services … Read More
Aun Consulting announced that Japanese SEO industry grew to 194 billion yen market in 2010, which was a 18.6% growth from 2009. According to the report, SEO outsourcing category grew 22%, SEO In-house category grew 19% and SEO Tool industry … Read More
When Yahoo Japan and Google Japan announced its plan for search service tie-up (both organic search and PPC services) in July, Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) gave a statement that they didn’t think it would violate the Antitrust (or Competition) … Read More
DeNA and Yahoo’s social gaming platform for PC, “Yahoo! Mobage” launched its β version. It is available for free of charge. “Yahoo! Mobage” is a social gaming platform, which lets users play games that are linked PCs and mobile. It … Read More
Yahoo and Google have come to the agreement on the partnership in Japanese market. It was officially announced on each blog on July 27th. While the effective date is yet to be decided, according to the announcements, we can expect … Read More
Japan’s biggest e-commerce site Rakuten announced that it will acquire Buy.com Inc for $250 million, foraying into the U.S. market for the first time as it steps up its push to expand overseas. Earlier this year, Rakuten announced a joint … Read More
Earlier this month, UCC coffee, one of the popular coffee manufactures in Japan, made a big mess on Twitter in a matter of days. Here’s what happened. They have been running “Good Coffee Smile Campaign” since 1999 using mas-media. This … Read More
During the interview with Nikkei Business, Yahoo Japan’s president Inoue said that he wasn’t impressed by some of the popular Google services such as Street View, Book Search and AdWords. He thinks that those services are either in the “gray … Read More
The Mobile Marketing Association announced the results of its Annual Global Mobile Attitude and Usage Study conducted in 2008. The markets surveyed in the Asia Pacific segment of the study include: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and South … Read More
It is a known fact that Japanese are one of the top users of Social media in the world. Japan was the number-one country by the number of YouTube users for years, and still now, Japanese spend most time on … Read More
According to a report on “Shopping and E-commerce businesses in Japan” by Fuji-Keizai, the market including catalog shopping, TV shopping, online shopping and mobile shopping, will become $5.4 billion market in 2010, a 109% growth from 2008. The report also … Read More
