By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Truth be told, I don’t quite understand GREE‘s internationalization strategy, but here we go: the company announced dates and locations for a total of five new offices outside Japan. Here’s the full list: GREE Korea (in Seoul, from October 2011) GREE Singapore (from October 2011)...
DeNA did it for Mobage back in February, now Mixi is following: it’s now possible for subscribers to KDDI au using Mixi on Android phones to make payments via “KDDI au Kantan Kessai”. This mobile settlement service makes it possible to pay for Mixi points, Mixi’s virtual...
Earlier this week, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi changed two things on its website: First, Mixi introduced a new logo, as you can see on the picture below: Second, Mixi launched a new feature, Mixi Pages, which works much like Facebook pages: individuals, companies...
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”...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry