Published by rwatstein February 25th, 2008
in China, social networking and Japan.
Japan’s most popular social-networking site, Mixi, on Wednesday said it plans to establish a subsidiary in Shanghai to tap China’s fast-growing Internet market. “China’s Internet population is increasing at a significant pace, and its online-advertisement market is also gathering steam,” Mixi spokeswoman Hirono Kobayashi said. Internet users in China reached 172 million in 2007, and the figure is expected to reach 200 million by 2010, making it the world’s biggest Internet market by user numbers, she said.
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Published by rwatstein January 26th, 2008
in search and Japan.
After a month of delay, China’s top search engine Baidu finally launches its Japanese portal. By establishing a stronghold in the Japanese web scene, Baidu hopes to develop search products that compliment Japanese users’ habits and preferences
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Published by rwatstein January 20th, 2008
in mobile/cell phones, books and Japan.
Until recently, cellphone novels — composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens — had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago. Then last month, the year-end best-seller tally showed that cellphone novels, republished in book form, have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.
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