November 4, 2009
October 22, 2009
All top mobile social sites in Japan are doing well, and attracting more advertisers. You may think that you should be at both places to get the most exposures. But, you may not have a luxury of advertising everywhere you want to be. See the data here to make the smart decision.
October 14, 2009
METI report shows the advertising industry in Japan continue to decline in sales. While 4 of the mass media such as TV and newspaper had 2 digit loss compare to the sales in the same month last year, Internet advertising had a slight growth in August 2009.
October 6, 2009
Baidu offers mobile search in Japan, which lets you search with Emoji (emoticons), too. It's not just a fun factor, but also helps usability.
September 30, 2009
ICANN announced its plan to begin offering TLDs in different letters and characters other than Alphabet in 2010. The plan includes Japanese characters, which makes domains such as ".Japan" and ".Tokyo".
September 25, 2009
You can buy just about anything you want in Beijing, but most Western brand products cost at least 2 times more. It looks that smart Chinese women are shopping online to save money, and to spend more.