By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Good news for Dwango: in its latest financial report, the company says that Nico Nico Douga has counted 21.03 million users at the end of March 2011 (the end of fiscal 2011). 6.23 million users are using Nico Nico on cell phones. Dwango also says that the number of premium members in Japan (who pay...
Japan’s biggest social network Mixi started offering the official Mixi app for Android in December last year. And today the company announced the release of the Mixi Android SDK kit for developers. The SDK is supposed to make it easier for social app providers to create Android apps using the...
Kakaku has announced a native Android app for yoyaQ.com, its online reservation site for luxury hotels in Japan. The app lets users look up various information on hotels, for example pricing or availability of rooms. It’s also possible to bookmark entries, look for same-day deals with a...
Tokyo-based gaming company Spicysoft has announced it has landed a hit with Charisocial, a social game it has launched on Mobage 3 months ago: the company says that it has racked up 500,000 users since then. What’s special about this number is that according to Spicysoft, promotional efforts...
Amazon Japan has released a native Android app today. It allows users to search for all 20 million items listed on Amazon Japan and directly make a purchase, too. The app also features a barcode function, Amazon’s 1-click ordering system, and Amazon Prime support. The Amazon Japan Android app...
Japan’s largest e-commerce company Rakuten released its earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 today. And things are looking quite good: consolidated net sales, for example, rose 9.8% year-on-year to 86,921 million yen, despite the negative effects of the March 11 earthquake. Operating...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry