MSN wants to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion

Posted at February 1, 2008, in Japanese Search Engines

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.

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Search Around The World at SES Paris

Posted at January 21, 2008, in This and that

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.

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Yahoo Japan’s face lift for the New Year

Posted at January 3, 2008, in Japanese Search Engines

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.

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Back from SES Chicago and only 20 days left in the year!

Posted at December 11, 2007, in This and that

I spoke about Japanese Internet Market at SES Chicago 2007’s “Search Around The World” session on day 1. The Asian market including Japan is an important market for not only the large corporations but also for small and mid-size businesses. I hope my presentation gave some new information to people came to the session.

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SES Tokyo 2008

Posted at November 28, 2007, in Japanese Online Market

I’m pleased to write that I’m co-hosting the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo in Tokyo next Spring! We are currently making all the strategic plans, selecting speakers, contacting sponsors, etc. to produce a great event for Japanese SEO/SEM professionals in Japan.

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