By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
There are quite a few companies in Japan that are currently making good business with overcharging for Facebook-related B2B services, for example in e-commerce or marketing . The background is that Facebook, even though it’s growing in Japan, is still a black box for a lot of Japanese people...
Mobage and GREE may have well over 25 million users in Japan each, but that doesn’t stop Forif to try to become another mobile social gaming platform provider in the country. The Tokyo-based company, which was established in 2007, just launched a mobile social gaming service called Joynt...
Years after setting up a base in China, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi has announced it will open a subsidiary in the US as early as next month. Aptly named mixi America, the new unit is registered in Delaware, capitalized at US$5 million and wholly owned by Mixi in Japan...
The Sparxup Awards 2011 event for Indonesian startups in Jakarta has ended over the last weekend, and I was lucky to be chosen to hold the keynote presentation. My presentation’s topic was “Innovation, Imitation & Hyper-Localization In Asia”, and here are the slides (direct...
Mixi announced it added a new feature to Mixi Pages, its version of Facebook pages for individuals, companies or celebrities to broadcast information and promote themselves (Mixi introduced the feature in September). Owners of sites can now track the number page views, unique users, followers...
LinkedIn may have under half a million Japan-based users, but that didn’t stop the company to offer their user interface in Japanese. The new version went live on Thursday. LinkedIn’s managing director of Asia-Pacific and Japan Arvind Rajan said Japanese is the 10th language the site...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry