By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Here’s a quick run-down on Rakuten-related news I wasn’t able to cover in the last 2 weeks (listed chronologically): July 28, 2011: Rakuten acquires German shopping site Tradoria (article in English) August 4, 2011: Rakuten releases financial report for Q2 FY2011 (in English) August 9, 2011:...
Here’s a quick run-down on DeNA (Mobage)-related news I wasn’t able to cover in the last 2 weeks (listed chronologically): July 25, 2011: Five Japanese star game makers decide to create games exclusively for Mobage (article in English) July 27, 2011: DeNA starts offering Mobage worldwide (my...
Here’s a quick run-down on GREE-related news I wasn’t able to cover in the last 2 weeks (listed chronologically): August 4, 2011: GREE gets pre-installed on the world’s first Microsoft Windows Mango phone in Japan (article in English) August 4, 2011: GREE announces a user base of...
Here’s a quick run-down on CyberAgent-related news I wasn’t able to cover in the last 2 weeks (listed chronologically): July 25, 2011: CyberAgent Ventures opens office in Taipei to serve the Taiwanese market (more info in English here) July 28, 2011: CyberAgent releases financial report...
I spent the last 14 days in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and during that time, these major Japanese social networking/social gaming companies published financial reports (links to all PDFs in English):
CyberAgent: 3Q FY2011
Mixi: 1Q, FY2011
GREE: 4Q, FY2011
DeNA: 1Q, FY2011
Kakaku didn’t just release their newest financial report in English today, they also published a press release to announce “Tabera”, a Tabelog-connected iPhone app that allows customers to make pictures of dishes at restaurants and share them on Facebook and Twitter. There are...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry