By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Indonesian tech blog DailySocial just reported that Rakuten Belanja, Rakuten‘s online mall in Indonesia is now live (as a beta version). Rakuten Belanja is a joint venture with PT Global Mediacom Tbk, the biggest media company in Indonesia. The partnership was announced in December 2010. My...
Reuters just reported that Yahoo may finally be really willing to transfer its stake (35%) in Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, to SoftBank, Yahoo Japan’s other major shareholder. SoftBank owns more than Yahoo itself (37.36%). Rumors about a possible exit by Yahoo have been...
GREE today announced it has entered a partnership with famed 3D game development tool maker Unity from San Francisco. Under the deal, GREE has started to offer the so-called “Unity Plugin for GREE” to social game developers providing titles to the platform. The plugin is part of the...
I am not sure if YouTube Japan and Nico Nico Douga will be amused about this: Tokyo-based startup Knowledge Flow has developed Niccori Chanel Viewer, a service that essentially mixes YouTube and Nico Nico Douga. Niccori is based on Nico Comment, a service that allows users to add comments to videos...
Groupon Japan is losing ground to Ponpare, a clone offered by Japanese web giant Recruit, if data compiled by daily coupon search service CP4U is to be believed. Too many “glitches”? The study CP4U released today [JP, PDF] analyzes sales numbers of Groupon and a total of 155 Japanese...
CyberAgent just announced GameWave, a mobile social gaming platform that will go live this spring. No doubt, this will be an uphill battle, but there are three things that are noteworthy here: GameWave will be available exclusively on the iPhone CyberAgent wants to initially focus on the US market...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry