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MSN wants to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion
Microsoft announced it’s offer to acquire Yahoo for $31/share, which is more than 60% higher than Yahoo’s current traded price. Yahoo shows their willingness to consider the offer. If MSN and Yahoo come to the agreement, we may see new search engine-portal site later this year.
Continue »Search Around The World at SES Paris
On Feb 15, I spoke about Japanese Internet Market during the Search Around The World session at Search Engine Strategies Paris. It was the only session provided in English. I was happy to see we had a good attendance to the session.
Continue »Japanese Government’s statement caused DeNA’s stock to fall
Japanese government’s new regulation to require all mobile service providers to use a filtering system to ban children (under 18) from accessing certain websites/mobile sites has caused Japan’s most popular mobile portal, Mobaga Town’s owner, DeNA’s stock to fall rapidly.
Continue »Yahoo Japan’s face lift for the New Year
Yahoo Japan entered 2008 with a new home page, which has no category list. Though it has a search box right below the Yahoo Japan logo, it looks that Yahoo Japan is shifting to be more as a portal site than as a search site.
Continue »SNS and Video were big in Japan in ’07 – What’s next?
Social Networking Services, Blogs, and Video sharing became very popular in Japan in 2007. Some surveys show that some of these areas are already reaching the peak. So, what’s the next big thing in Japan in 2008?
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