By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
First DeNA, now CyberAgent: the company posted a few new documents on its website, all of which are available in English, but unlike DeNA, CyberAgent’s financial reports are about the second quarter of the current fiscal year. In a nutshell, things are looking pretty good at the moment for...
It took them a few days, but DeNA finally published their operating results and financial statements for Q4 in English. I am currently reading the documents, which can be downloaded (PDF) here:
FY2010Q4 Operating Results
FY2010Q4 Consolidated Financial Statements
The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is probably one of the largest (if not the largest) of its kind worldwide (last year, I was fortunate to participate as a moderator and judge). During the GMIC 2011 (which ended yesterday), DeNA COO Isao Moriyasu gave a speech in which he unveiled a...
Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani said in an interview he gave to The Nikkei that his company will enter a handful of countries in Europe plus Brazil and India this year. According to Mikitani, further acquisitions in those markets are possible, too. These countries would follow Japan, China...
CyberAgent (its investment subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures, to be more precise) has invested $1 million in iPeen, a Taiwanese e-commerce site. iPeen offers information on a total of 85,000 Taiwanese restaurants and offers discount coupons to its members. Taiwanese news site Focus Taiwan reports that...
Another hit video game series get the social game treatment: SNK Playmore today announced it has released “The King Of Fighters Battle Festa” on Mobage (King Of Fighters is one of the most famous fighting game series of all time). SNK says that in order to make the game social, Mobage...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry