By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent yesterday announced it has set up the so-called “International Mobile Marketing Division” that aims at providing “overseas companies with smartphone and mobile promotion opportunities in Japan”. The devil is in the details, but given that this country is a black...
Rakuten makes another step into selling digital content. The company has announced the launch of the website for their e-book store “Raboo” two days ago: So far, only buyers of Panasonic’s e-reader UT-PB1 were able to access Raboo from their device, but now anybody can purchase books through...
And yet another investment from CyberAgent subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures: this time, the Tokyo office decided to pump an undisclosed amount into Retty, a social restaurant guide. The investment is one of the first coming from the so-called CA Startups Internet Fund I that CyberAgent set up earlier...
Here’s quite an unusual tie-up for a social game maker: DeNA today announced they partnered up with major online restaurant guide service Gourmet Navigator (Gurunavi) to promote usage of a social restaurant management game on Mobage. Under the campaign, players of “Bistro World”...
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan’s web, mobile, and social gaming industries during an event in Tokyo (on search engines, e-commerce, social networks, mobile web usage and the basic structure of the social gaming industry in this country, to be more exact). Companies and...
Amazon Japan is set to expand its business: the company started offering software (for download) today, anything from games, to anti-virus programs to office applications. The selection (or prices) aren’t terribly exciting, but this is actually a quite big move for the site. Amazon Japan...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry