By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based Mobile Factory announced on Friday that its application to go public at the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Mothers section has been approved. The company will get listed on March 26 under ticker 3912. Japan has seen a number of mobile game companies going public as of late: gumi (3903)...
The recent string of mobile gaming companies in Japan going IPO continues. After gumi (3903) and Kamakura-based Kayac (3904) last December and Silicon Studio following this month, Toky0-based Aiming today announced it was approved by the Tokyo Stock Exchange for a new listing on its Mothers section...
Major Tokyo-based mobile game maker gumi (official website) went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, under ticker 3903. As a quick run down of the company’s history, gumi was established in 2007, just about when the mobile game industry in Japan started taking off. After providing games...
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has released their ranking of the top 50 high-growth companies in Japan in the TMT sector (Technology, Media & Telecommunications), and the rapid expansion of the country’s social gaming sector is clearly reflected in the list. According to Deloitte’s...
Mobile group chat / social messenger services are currently hot in Asia. Very hot. Now Japanese company Kayac lets developers integrate these “social communication functions” into their social games with a new SDK. The so-called nakamap SDK can be found here, is free to use (and in...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry