Chinese Search, Commerce Sites Baidu And Alibaba Coming To Europe?
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 sea… Read more »
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Sony To Unveil Its Second Video Sharing Site Friday
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Sony has created an ad-supported video-sharing site that will be launched in Japan on Friday called eyeVio, Reuters reported. If the site ac… Read more »
Microsoft Hoping For Halo Effect From Xbox Live In Japan
By James Quintana Pearce
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 i… Read more »
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Google Apologizes For Copying Sohu Typing Methods; Google, Baidu Battle Asian Ghost Sites
By David Kaplan
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YHOO: Close To Filling Major Vacancies; Panama’s Launch Smooth; Newspaper Deals Could Expand
Yahoo’s presentation at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference today covered a lot of ground as chairman and CEO Terry Semel and still-CFO… Read more »
Brightcove Raises Another $59.5 Million In Third Round; NYTCO Among New Investors
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Game Search Engine Wazap Raises $7.9 Million To Promote US Launch
By David Kaplan
In a bid to launch its game search engine in the US, German-Japanese vertical search engine Wazap has raised $7.9 million in a second round… Read more »
DoCoMo Buys 3 Percent Of Nippon TV For $112 million
By Rafat Ali
Another in Japanese operators’ efforts to shore up their content offerings: Japanese incumbent DoCoMo has bought a 3 percent stake in Nippon… Read more »
Japanese’s Faith Buys Online/Mobile Music Delivery Firm Rightscale
By Rafat Ali
We missed this one last week: Faith, one of the big mobile content companies out of Japan, through its subsidiary Brave, has bought out full… Read more »
Japanese Group Wants YouTube To Be Proactive About Copyright
The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers is asking YouTube to set up a pre-post review system for uploads. AP repor… Read more »
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Chinese Search Company Baidu Will Enter Japanese Market In ’07
Baidu.com, China’s leading search company, said Monday it will enter the Japanese market next year. According to Reuters, the company did a… Read more »
Japan’s GDH Launches Digital Media Fund
By Rafat Ali
In Japan, GDH Capital, a member of the GDH Group, has launched a $5.5 million investment fund to develop content across a range of media, in… Read more »
DoCoMo Invests $34.5 Million in Japanese Media Firm Kadokawa
By Rafat Ali
Japanese operator DoCoMo has invested in Kadokawa Group Holdings (a group of companies engaged mainly in publishing or movies/visual content… Read more »
AOL’s Advertising.com, Mitsui Team Up For Japan JV
Advertising.com Japan will be a joint venture between the AOL unit and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., designed to try to tap in to the growing online a… Read more »
Murdoch: News Corp. Could get $6 Billion For MySpace Now
MySpace would likely sell for $6 billion now, News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch told Australian investors today. Details of the me… Read more »
The Winter Of Consoles: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360; And Zune
By Rafat Ali
This is the winter of consoles: PS3 launched over the weekend in Japan, to its attendant craziness, and then there’s Wii from Nintendo, and… Read more »
Earnings: Softbank Q2 Rises On Vodafone Acquisition; Online Up 32 Percent
By Jonathan Berr
Softbank’s second quarter profit surged thanks to its recent acqusition of Vodafone Group’s wireless unit. Net income climbed to… Read more »
It’s Official: News Corp., SoftBank Set Up MySpace JV In Japan; MySpace Aims For 11 More Countries
News Corp. and SoftBank are each putting up 590 million yen — sounds a lot more impressive than the dollar equivalent of $5.09 million each… Read more »
MySpace To Launch In Japan; Partnership With SoftBank: Report
Looks like MySpace.com’s expected expansion into Japan is finally underway. Via Reuters, a report from business daily Nihon Keizai that News… Read more »
Apple Claims First Music Download Victim In Japan — Or So Claims Oricon
Japanese music chart publisher Oricon is dropping its music download service, bowing to pressure from Apple iTunes Japan, estimated to have… Read more »
Napster Launches Music Downloads Site For Japan, Tower Records Partners
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
Napster launched a music download site for Japan today in partnership with Tower Records, even as it continues its quest for a sale of the p… Read more »
Mixi’s IPO Doubles on Day One; $1.9 Billion Valuation
By Rafat Ali
Japan’s popular social networking site Mixi debuted on the stock market today, and its shares doubled their IPO price on their first day of… Read more »
Sony Japan Takes Stake in Online Golf Game Site Gamepot, For $22 Million
By Rafat Ali
Sony Japan’s online unit Sony Communication Network has bought a stake in 27 percent stake in Gamepot, an operator of a popular online golf… Read more »
Viacom To Buy Out Majority Partner in MTV Japan; Will Make Multi-Platform Push
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
Viacom will buy out H&Q Asia Pacific’s 68 percent stake in the MTV Japan cable channel for an undisclosed amount, allowing the firm to pursu… Read more »
Google: Mobile Still In Investment Phase; Search Share Dropped Slightly In June
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
Deep Nishar, Google’s head of wireless products, skims over Google’s global mobile aspirations in a MediaGuardian interview today. Lack of a… Read more »
Japanese CE Firms To Develop Net-Connected-TV Standards
By Rafat Ali
Not sure how much this would matter outside of Japan: Sony, Matsushita, Sharp, Toshiba and Hitachi, the Japanese consumer-electronics giants… Read more »
Japan May Ease TV Copy Protection Rules
By Rafat Ali
In Japan, the government plans to ask broadcasters and makers of home appliances to ease a copy protection rule for digital TV broadcasts to… Read more »
Dentsu, Mitsubishi Animation Alliance To Explore Online/Mobile Too
By Rafat Ali
[by Sahad P V] Dentsu and Mitsubishi Corporation have announced a new business alliance for the production, sale and rights management of Ja… Read more »
Sharp, Sony, M’shita To Set Up Digital TV Video Service JV; Invest $9 Million
By Rafat Ali
Not sure how this will look like, since couldn’t find the original release: Major Japanese electronics manufacturers including Matsushita, S… Read more »
Warner Invests in Japanese Mobile Radio Firm; Increasing International Footprint
By Rafat Ali
Warner Music Group is expanding its international footprint through investments and joint ventures, focusing on online and mobile potential:… Read more »
Microsoft, Toshiba, DoCoMo, Victor to Develop Japan iPod Rival
By Rafat Ali
Microsoft is trying a “Plays-For-Sure + WMP11-Urge-iRiver” hybrid strategy in Japan, where iPod is the dominant music player (though not as… Read more »
Sony’s Unit Buys Health Info Service MDLinx
By Rafat Ali
Japanese online pharmaceutical marketing firm So-net M3, backed by Sony (NYSE: SNE) Communication Network (Sony owns 60 percent), has bought… Read more »
Softbank-iPod Phone Rumor: Not Happening
By Rafat Ali
We mentioned a Nikkei story this weekend about a possible Apple iPod phone tie-up with Softbank. It is being denied now by Softbank…oh wel… Read more »
Yahoo Japan To Buy Toshiba’s Online News Search Unit For $11 Million
By Rafat Ali
Yahoo Japan, which is 33.4 percent owned by Yahoo, has majority-bought out Toshiba Corp’s online news search and clipping service unit NewsW… Read more »
Dentsu Venture Gets FIFA Soccer Rights in Asia; Includes Broadband & Mobile
By Rafat Ali
Japanese advertising firm Dentsu said its upcoming joint venture with Swiss sports event marketing firm Infront Sports & Media has obtained… Read more »
More on Voda-SBank Deal: Yahoo Content Deal Possible
By Rafat Ali
A friend-of-a-friend reasoning, but makes sense: with Softbank buying out Vodafone’s stake in Japan, a content supply link between Vodafone… Read more »
Softbank Buys Vodafone Japan for $15.4 Billion; Gets 15 Million Customers
By Sahad PV
Softbank Corp. is buying out Vodafone Japan for $15.4 billion. Softbank, Japan’s second-largest ISP, gains 15 million customers through this… Read more »
Korean Entertainment Firm Bought In Part By Softbank; Gets $13 Million
By Rafat Ali
Masayoshi Son has done crazier investments: Softbank has bought a stake in a Korean Wave company (Korean Wave refers to the country’s pop cu… Read more »
Nintendo Adds Digital TV, Web Browsing To Japanese Version Of DS
Nintendo will offer Japanese users the chance to transform the WiFi-enabled Nintendo DS into a portable media center of sorts. The company p… Read more »
German-Japan Gaming Info Site Gets $3.6 Million Funding
By Rafat Ali
Eastbeam Group of Berlin and Tokyo has received $3.6 million in venture funding from Wellington Partners.
Eastbeam operates Wazap, a vertic… Read more »
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