Japan

Softbank and Alibaba.com Create $20 Million Joint Venture in Japan - 0 Comments
Posted By Pearl Research - Thu 15 May 2008 09:07 AM PST

Alibaba.com and Softbank today announced formation of a joint venture company called Alibaba.com Japan. The total investment will be $20 million with Softbank accounting for 65 percent of the investment…

Woulda Coulda Shoulda: Sony Working on PS3 Movie Download Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:40 PM PST

By now, I have lost count on the number of times Sony (NYSE: SNE) has started working for movie/video download services for either Playstation or PSP, and has launched some…

Korea Telecom And Softbank Launch $40 Million Fund Aimed At IPTV Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Apr 2008 05:09 AM PST

South Korea’s dominant fixed-line and broadband operator Korea Telecom and Japanese telecom and internet group Softbank have partnered together to launch a $40 million investment fund aimed at delivering internet…

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Video Search Engine Foooo Gets $1 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 18 Mar 2008 05:06 PM PST

Because Zooomr can’t hog all the o’s, Japanese video search engine Fooooo has raised a $1 million second round from Cyberagent, reports Alarm:Clock and NTV. It’s the company’s second $1…

Disney Tries Again: Launches MVNO With Softbank In Japan - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 03 Mar 2008 10:32 AM PST

Following two failed MVNOs in the US, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has gone to Japan, where on Saturday, it launched an MVNO--Disney Mobile--with Softbank, the country’s third largest operator. AFP reports…

Dentsu And Focus Media Back New Chinese Interactive Shop; $9 Million Invested - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 22 Jan 2008 10:21 AM PST

Japanese ad agency Dentsu and Shanghai-based marketing company Focus Media (NSDQ: FMCN) have agreed to establish a new interactive ad firm. Dentsu, like a lot of others these days, wants…

Japan Announces Plans For Content Filtering, Watermarking - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 03 Jan 2008 10:00 AM PST

While the Australian Government is getting slammed on the internet for its proposal to require telecommunication companies to filter online and mobile access to adult content, the Japanese Government has…

Dubai Investment Fund Takes ‘Substantial’ Stake in Sony; Endorses Management’s Strategy - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:10 AM PST

Dubai International Capital, an investment firm owned by Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has taken a “substantial”, though unspecified, stake in Sony. The WSJ notes that the stake…

Manganovel Offers Market For Reader-Translators Of Japanese Manga - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 02 Oct 2007 04:30 PM PST

Manganovel and Toshiba have launched Manganovel, a site which serves as a distribution channel for Japanese manga publishers and allows readers to post their own translations of the manga comics…

Three Major Japanese Newspapers To Launch Joint News Website; Share Distribution - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Oct 2007 09:25 AM PST

In an unusual only-in-Japan kind of deal, the three top newspapers in the country, The Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun and Nikkei, will jointly launch a new website next year, and…

GPlus Media Acquires News Site JapanToday.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 18 Sep 2007 10:15 AM PST

Pacific Rim-focused holding company IA Global has announced that GPlus Media (in which it has a 25 percent stake) has acquired JapanToday.com from CrissCross co. for an undisclosed sum. Japan…

Japanese Government Tries To Inspire Homegrown Search Challenge To Google; Devices Search - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 04 Sep 2007 03:50 PM PST

Japanese fears that its hegemony of the electronic marketplace is waning has spurred the country’s federal government to take on the challenge of what many in the tech industry might…

Yahoo Japan Invests $5.2 Million in Travel Info Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 30 Aug 2007 10:35 AM PST

Yahoo Japan is acquiring a 16.5 percent stake in 4travel, a Japanese travel info website , for about 610 million yen (about $5.2 million). This brings 4travel’s parent, Kakaku.com’s share…

Chinese Virtual World Hipihi Receives Funding To Build Japanese Presence - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 20 Aug 2007 09:30 AM PST

Chinese 3D virtual community Hipihi has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Japanese venture firm NGI group. In addition to the funding, NGI is also serving as Hipihi’s strategic…

YouTube Japan Second After U.S.; New Partners But Copyright Concerns Persist - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 03 Aug 2007 01:51 AM PST

YouTube has announced a series of partnerships in Japan - but the country’s copyright advocates fear producers could still lose out. Google VP David Eun told a Tokyo news conference…

Earnings: Sony PS3 Price Cut Brings Q2 Sales Jump - And Bigger Losses - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 26 Jul 2007 01:17 AM PST

Sony’s (NYSE:SNE) Q2 net profit more than doubled to 66.46 billion yen ($540 million) on 13.3 percent better revenue of 1.98 trillion yen ($16 billion) in the quarter to end…

ValueClick Buys Comparison Shopping Site MeziMedia For Up To $352 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 16 Jul 2007 08:32 AM PST

Often talked about as a prime acquisition target itself, online advertising firm ValueClick is buying MeziMedia, an operator of comparison shopping sites, for $100 million in cash upfront, and the…

YouTube Launches Nine Country Sites; UK, Brazil, Japan Included - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Jun 2007 02:22 AM PST

At a Paris press conference, YouTube unveiled localized versions for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Holland, Poland, Spain and the UK (Germany is missing). Initially, the sites get translated homepages,…

Sony I: Stringer Talks New Media, Club Penguin, PS3 Price Cuts, Etc. - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 15 Jun 2007 02:45 PM PST

Sony Corp. chairman and CEO Howard Stringer covered a lot of ground in a lengthy video interview with the FT (Full transcript here and here: Sony and the Valley: Asked…

Chinese Search, Commerce Sites Baidu And Alibaba Coming To Europe? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 05 Jun 2007 06:18 AM PST

Both Baidu and Alibaba are soon to open up in Europe, according to Telegraph.co.uk. Sans sourcing, the paper says Baidu, China’s largest search engine and now the world’s fifth most…

Sony To Unveil Its Second Video Sharing Site Friday - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 26 Apr 2007 08:14 AM PST

Sony has created an ad-supported video-sharing site that will be launched in Japan on Friday called eyeVio, Reuters reported. If the site achieves a measure of popularity in Sony’s home…

Microsoft Hoping For Halo Effect From Xbox Live In Japan - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 25 Apr 2007 07:51 PM PST

Microsoft is hoping that the launch of its Games for Windows Live service in Japan will give PC gaming a boost in that country, which will in turn give a…

Google Apologizes For Copying Sohu Typing Methods; Google, Baidu Battle Asian Ghost Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 09 Apr 2007 05:26 AM PST

Google has admitted to using Chinese portal Sohu’s typing technology in latest product, according to Reuters. Google admitted its method had been built “leveraging some non-Google database resources” and, in…

YHOO: Close To Filling Major Vacancies; Panama’s Launch Smooth; Newspaper Deals Could Expand - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Mar 2007 01:50 PM PST

Yahoo’s presentation at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference today covered a lot of ground as chairman and CEO Terry Semel and still-CFO Sue Decker tried to prove to investors and…

Brightcove Raises Another $59.5 Million In Third Round; NYTCO Among New Investors - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 17 Jan 2007 08:51 AM PST

Updated: Spoke to Jeremy briefly at NATPE...on the money he said it won’t be used much for acquisitions, or at least they don’t have anything coming on their horizon. Mainly…