By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nice day for online train timetable service Ekitan: after announcing their IPO in January, the company got listed today at the Mothers Market (for high-growth and emerging stocks) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (code 3646). The stock’s opening price stood at 5,530 yen, which is 98.9% higher than...
GREE has added another potentially big title to its social game library, a “battle action game” based on Fist Of The North Star, a popular manga. The title is only playable on Japanese feature phones. What’s interesting (apart from the big brand name) is that Fist of the North...
Big news from Amazon regarding the Japanese market today. The company announced it has started offering its cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services to local customers via data centers located in Japan (near Tokyo). The new facility is Amazon’s fifth data center and the second in Asia...
GREE announced that “Pro Yakyuu Dream Nine” will become available on GREE for Japanese feature phones on Friday, a social baseball game (yakyuu means baseball in Japanese). There are social baseball games out there already, but this title, provided by Konami, is the first one carrying a...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry