Posted by Scott Halcomb Asia Mobile Social Media Startups Twitter Ain’t No Thang: KakaoTalk Sends a Billion Messages in a Day At the end of 2012 Naver Line, a free mobile messaging service, announced it reached 10 million down... By Scott Halcomb 1 January 13, 2012 at 11:30 am Asia Business Mobile KDDI Teams with Total Immersion for Powerful AR Development Today Japan’s second largest telecom, KDDI (34 million subscribers), announced its strategic p... By Scott Halcomb 0 December 16, 2011 at 12:17 pm Asia Business Gaming Mobile Angry Birds Landing in Japan. But Will It Succeed? Yesterday at the Techcrunch Tokyo 2011 event there was a panel discussion regarding starting a compa... By Scott Halcomb 1 December 1, 2011 at 9:03 am Gaming Mobile Social Media Web How Coca-Cola is Gamifying Vending Machines in Japan Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) wants its customers in Japan to get to know their favorite vending machines a li... By Scott Halcomb 1 November 10, 2011 at 10:00 am Asia Business Mobile Web Japan’s Milog Builds Business Around Selling User Data, Angers Android Users Milog, a Japanese startup focused on Android development, has recently been the recipient of much ne... By Scott Halcomb 4 October 13, 2011 at 6:00 pm Asia Business Gaming Mobile Web Mobile Location Based Games to See Massive Growth in Japan Location based services (LBS) garnered quite a bit of attention last year with new services like Fou... By Scott Halcomb 0 October 6, 2011 at 12:30 pm Asia Gadgets Mobile Advanced Speaker Technology Developed for Smartphones CEATEC Japan 2011, Japan’s annual IT and electronics trade show, isn’t until next week b... By Scott Halcomb 0 September 28, 2011 at 8:00 pm Asia Gadgets Gaming Mobile Web Japan’s Smartphone Gaming to Grow 30-Fold by 2015 Seed Planning, a market research and consulting firm, recently released a report projecting massive ... By Scott Halcomb 1 September 15, 2011 at 1:00 pm Asia Business Mobile Japan Railways Experiments with ‘Train Net’ Japan is renowned for its train innovation. The ‘Bullet Train’ was a breakthrough for hi... By Scott Halcomb 0 September 8, 2011 at 12:00 pm Asia Business E-commerce Mobile E-commerce Soars in Japan, Smartphones the Cause? The Nikkei reported this week that Japan’s e-commerce sales increased 16.9 percent during fisc... By Scott Halcomb 0 August 31, 2011 at 1:14 pm Asia Mobile Japan’s Mobile Carriers Play Chicken with Smartphone Data Plans On multiple occasions this week, Japan’s mobile carriers have publicly addressed a looming pro... By Scott Halcomb 0 August 25, 2011 at 9:08 am Asia Creative Web Colopl Innovates the Social Gaming Business Model Scott performs mobile related research and consulting for Infinita in Tokyo. He is fascinated by all... By Scott Halcomb 1 July 28, 2011 at 10:08 am
