Fab’s $150M Backers Include Tencent and Itochu, Plans to Launch in China and Maybe Japan
American design-oriented e-commerce site Fab has just raised $150 million in the first part of its series D funding. For us, the most intere...
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Asian E-Commerce Sites Net $6.9 Billion in Investment in Past 3 Years, But Exits Still Tiny [STATS]
Asian e-commerce companies have attracted $6.9 billion across 383 deals – through funding, acquisitions, and IPOs – from 2010 to...
Rakuten Helps American Merchants Make Faster Deliveries With Logistics Company Acquisition
Japanese e-commerce titan Rakuten (JSD:4755) has revealed today that it’s acquired California-based logistics company Webgistix for an...
Line Appeals to Bookworms With New ‘Line Novel’ E-Books Portal
The Line juggernaut continues today with the app’s makers, NHN, adding free e-books within the social messaging app. While this doesn&...
DeNA Starts Integrating Casino Games Into its Chat App Comm
Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on Twitter and his blog. This article is re...
US, Japan, Korea Drive about 80% of Google Play’s Games Revenue
80 percent of all games revenue on Google Play is generated from US, Japan, and Korea.
TwitCasting Gets Seed Funding for Social Live-Streaming Expansion
Twitter is fun, but it’s not a very visual medium. Japan’s TwitCasting is trying to change that with its video broadcasting platform tha...
DeNA Reveals the Secret Sauce In Its Latest Mobile RPG Global Hit
Developed by Japanese gaming company DeNA, Blood Brothers is a popular mobile game that has hit number one place in 33 countries. It is also...
Japanese Fashion E-Store Locondo Slips Into $6.2 Million in Funding
Japanese fashion and shoes e-store Locondo.jp has today slipped into JPY 600 million ($6.2 million) in series B funding. The investment is l...
New Docomo App Animates Your Panoramas
Japanese mobile telco NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) has today launched a fun smartphone app that will create video panoramas that include sound. Whi...
Manga Madness: Otaku Camera Reaches 3 Million Downloads Worldwide
Manga camera app Otaku Camera has hit three million downloads as of May 2013 (see graph below). Launched in November last year, the app help...
Japanese Netizens Have Fun Impersonating Line’s Cartoony Characters [PICS]
Japan-made social messaging app Line sees about 70 percent of users outside of Japan, which is a good rate of global expansion. But the most...
Rakuten Remains Committed to Indonesia with Payment Gateway Upgrade and Global Marketplace Launch
Rakuten’s (JSD:4755) Indonesian e-commerce site, Rakuten Belanja Online (RBO), turns two-years old today.
Square Makes First Overseas Move, Launches in Japan
Japan has long had square watermelons, and now it has Square for mobile payments too. This marks the first overseas expansion for Square, th...
Following CEO Shake-Up, Mixi Ploughs Seed Funding into Two Startups
Japan’s Facebook-like site Mixi has been struggling for a couple of years with stagnant user numbers and an apparent lack of direction. La...
In Collaboration with a Legendary Brazilian Footballer, Touchten Releases a Soccer Game
Indonesian game developer Touchten today released a soccer app for Android that’s proving to be quite a head turner. This soccer game is q...
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