Earnings: Yahoo Japan Posts Highger Q3 Earnings
Yahoo Japan’s Q4 net profit grew 36.7 percent, helped by its online auction and Web advertising businesses, and it forecast even higher resu… Read more »
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Konami Sets Up Internet Portal JV; $22 Million Investment
By Rafat Ali
I am not very sure of the implications of this, but significant nonetheless: Japanese gaming pioneer Konami has tied up with local ISP and t… Read more »
Index & TV Companies in Japan Form Online/Mobile Joint Venture
By Rafat Ali
This news came out in some bit about a month ago (see links below), but it has been finalized now: Tokyo Broadcasting System. (TBS), Japan’s… Read more »
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Softbank, Yahoo Japan Announce Joint Venture, New Broadband Video Service
Last month Rafat wrote about Softbank’s broadband video and Masayoshi Son’s interest in taking TV Bank global. First steps first … today S… Read more »
“I Have Made The Highest Returns From Internet Investments:” Masayoshi Son
By Rafat Ali
An interview with Masayoshi Son, President and CEO of SoftBank, in business magazine BT in India..he talks about his plans for TV-Bank (I wr… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Dec 6, 2005: Sky Broadband; CinemaNow Japan; BellSouth IPTV
By Rafat Ali
– Sky TV Download Service Goes Live: About to be launched formally..Sky movies and TV shows for download…nothing groundbreaking, but a st… Read more »
Sony’s ISP/Content Arm in Japan To Raise $257 Million in IPO
By Rafat Ali
Sony Communication Network, an ISP and content subsidiary of Sony Corp. is planing at IPO that will raise up to $257 million, helping it exp… Read more »
Japanese Ad Agency Dentsu, Five Japanese Networks Discussing Internet TV JV
Japan’s largest ad agency and five networks — TBS, Fuji, Nippon, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo — are working on an internet TV joint venture, acco… Read more »
Japanese TV Broadcasters Close to Deal With Index
By Rafat Ali
Five private TV broadcasters have entered into final negotiations with Japanese mobile conten giant Index Corp on forming a company to distr… Read more »
Masayoshi Son Plans Global Rollout Of His Video Service TV Bank
By Rafat Ali
Softbank, the Japanese broadband giant, is planning a global rollout of its online video service TV Bank (the link won’t work outside Japan… Read more »
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Index Launches U.S. New Media Rights Fund
By Rafat Ali
Index Corp, the big Japanese mobile content provider, has tied up with fellow-Japanese media rights firm Sojitz to launch a $2.2 million New… Read more »
Hispanic Portal ClickDiario Bought Out By Japanese Livedoor
By Rafat Ali
Did I miss something here? The release above announced the closure of the agreement, but I can’t seem to find any announcement about the ini… Read more »
AllAbout IPO Soars 727% in Japan
By Rafat Ali
AllAbout, the Japanese human-compiled portal (the Japanese version of About.com) has debuted strong on the stock market: its shares soar 727… Read more »
Sony Phasing out SonicStage For Connect Software?
By Rafat Ali
I’m not surprised…Sony is trying to bring everything music related under the Connect umbrella, worldwide. Sony, which launched a bunch of… Read more »
Ruckus Brings Warner Home Video to Campuses
By Rafat Ali
A series of stories in Asahi Shimbun, about the broadband content and movies market in Japan:
– TV broadcasters heading online for future g… Read more »
Audioblog.com Gets Funding For Podcast Services
By Rafat Ali
AudioBlog.com, an audio bloggin and podcasting service based in Flower Mound, Texas, has recived an undisclosed amount of venture funding by… Read more »
Sony In Talks With Apple On Licensing Its Service In Japan
By Rafat Ali
Sony, which till now was gamely trying (and losing) to fight Apple in Japan and other countries, is now in talk with it about a possible co… Read more »
Yahoo, Fuji TV to Air Live Program, Viewers to Join Via Internet
By Rafat Ali
An interesting mix of interactivity which Yahoo could possibly try in U.S. too: Yahoo Japan and Fuji Television will offer a live TV program… Read more »
Alibaba Says “Open Sesame”
The Wall Street Journal looks at Yahoo-Alibaba from the e-commerce perspective, particularly the auction segment and the challenge Alibaba’… Read more »
Napster and Tower Records Creates Japanese Joint Venture; $10 Million Investment
By Rafat Ali
Napster, which is also announcing its Q2 results today, has tied up with Tower Records Japan, the leading music retailer in Japan, to launch… Read more »
Sony Launches Video Portal for PSP; Web Browser Update; HBO Shows
By Rafat Ali
This could be a pre-cursor to a similar service in U.S.: In Japan, Sony has launched a Web portal through which owners of the PlayStation Po… Read more »
Japan’s Big Broadcaster To Stream Online
By Rafat Ali
(sub. req.): Nippon Television Network, one of Japan’s big five TV broadcasters, is launching a new service to distribute TV programs online… Read more »
Bellrock Media Launches With Big Backing
As we reported earlier, Bellrock Media, a Japanese-US venture focusing on delivery of digital content on via mobile and broadband platforms,… Read more »
MTV Launches Mobile Content Channel
From our sister site MocoNews.net: MTV will launch a mobile video clip channel in Japan at the end of this month, called Flux…The plan is… Read more »
Intel Invests In Japanese Content Distributor
Intel is investing some of its Digital Home [fund] money in Japanese company Bellrock Media that specializes in distributing movies and musi… Read more »
Japanese Hot IPTV Market, Thanks To Korean Soaps
Also part of the Newsweek cover feature (read stories below): a story about the Japanese online/IPTV market: Dozens of companies offer old d… Read more »
DVR Download Service Trialed In Japan
By Rafat Ali
Toshiba and two other comapnies in Japan have started trials of a DVD content distribution service, “Hikari de DVD,” that delivers video to… Read more »
Index Corp Buys Into French Soccer Club
By Rafat Ali
Continuing on the Net-Sports connection, Japanese mobile content giant Index Corp has bought French professional soccer club Grenoble Foot 3… Read more »
Tech Firms Try to Get Into Japan Baseball
By Rafat Ali
An interesting story about how Net firms in Japan are trying to buy out baseball teams…for example, Net services company Livedoor hopes to… Read more »
Disney, Intel To Launch Content Service in Japan
By Rafat Ali
The Japanese subsidiaries of Walt Disney and Intel have teamed to launch a new broadband content service that lets consumers add their own s… Read more »
Google Launches Japanese News-Search…Without Yomiuri
By Rafat Ali
(via editorsweblog.org): Google Japan has launched in news search service there, without having the biggest newspaper in the land in its ind… Read more »
Yahoo Japan Buy All About
By Rafat Ali
Yahoo Japan Corp plans to take a 41.3% stake in All About, for 2.3 billion yen (US$20.9 million), with an eye toward a tie-up in Internet ad… Read more »
Vindigo, Zingy Bought Out By Japanese Company For-Side.com
By Rafat Ali
Two New York City-based mobile content players, Vindigo and Zingy, have been bought out by Japanese mobile content powerhouse For-Side.com,… Read more »
Asian Mobile Broadcasting Satellite Launched
By Rafat Ali
A satellite built to deliver digital audio and video services to portable devices in Japan and South Korea was launched early Saturday from… Read more »
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