Company in Focus

TOKYO (Nikkei)--The market appears less than convinced that Nintendo Co. (7974) President Satoru Iwata can keep his promise to return profits to normal levels.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--Cookpad Inc. (2193) is whipping up solid earnings by drawing visitors to its cooking recipe sites and using the content to support food-related companies from behind the scenes.

TOKYO (Nikkei)-Cookpad Inc. (2193), which operates Japan's leading recipe website, is shaping up as another big Internet success story. The company's shares began trading on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December of last year, less than three years after it was first listed on the TSE Mothers market for start-ups.

TOKYO (Nikkei)--Operators of so-called knowledge-sharing websites are trying to improve the quality of their user reviews of goods and services after Tabelog, a popular restaurant information site, discovered that some of its reviewers received money in exchange for favorable write-ups.