What makes Yahoo Japan unique to other Yahoo properties worldwide is the fact that it is jointly owned by Yahoo and a Japanese company called Softbank; this might be the reason for its success in that market.
This doesn't apply to Softbank Mobile, which will keep Yahoo mobile search and its mobile ad platform. The Yahoo Japan search engine and PPC platform for web, image, video, and mobile products will be affected, and the transition will happen as...
From looking at the Japanese mobile market as a whole, Google Japan is the leader with its search partnerships with Docomo and KDDI with Softbank in third place. Yahoo Japan powers Softbank phones (and vice versa, considering Softbank is the...
In June, it was reported to have secured a $147 mln investment from Softbank and Bloomberg cited sources close to the deal as saying that talks between the two companies focused on "distributing and jointly promoting games through Softbank's...
Bearing in mind that, last month, Yahoo agreed to partner with Zynga to carry its games across Yahoo sites, and that Yahoo has, on top of this, entered a partnership with Nokia to reach Asian users via mobile access, this Softbank investment in...
MarketWatch reports that Softbank, who acquired Vodafone, will be using Yahoo to "bring the broad world of the Internet" to their mobile users. The mobile phones will have some sort of direct link to the Yahoo portal, to bring the content of...
The mobile phones will have some sort of direct link to the Yahoo portal, to bring the content of that portal to Softbank's mobile users. PhotoBucket Has 44% Share of Photo Sharing Sites: Beating Yahoo bring the broad world of the Internet" to...
MarketWatch reports that Softbank, who acquired Vodafone, will be using Yahoo to "bring the broad world of the Internet" to their mobile users. The mobile phones will have some sort of direct link to the Yahoo portal, to bring the content of that...
Softbank sells 17.5 million Yahoo shares. Portals for the Mobile Workforce: An Overview. He then provided some interesting information about how their users tend to interact with the Yahoo site when doing just that.
