By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
A lot can be said about the differences between Mixi and Facebook Japan (and who will win), but what does Mixi itself say? Today, during a social media event in Tokyo, Mixi gave some insight on how they see things. According to Mixi executive Tsuji Masataka, the key difference between his company...
Rakuten CEO Mikitani today explained why his company’s American subsidiary Buy.com has acquired DecisionStep, the company behind ShopTogether, a social shopping tool None of this information is available in English anywhere, so here we go: At a press conference in Tokyo, Mikitani said that...
It’s no secret that DeNA’s self-developed hit social game Kaitou Royal is the company’s main money maker. Now DeNA is planning to further monetize the Mobage title by turning it into a serialized manga and novel. DeNA has already started publishing the digital versions of the...
Japan’s telecommunications giant SoftBank has partnered up with China Mobile, Bharti Airtel (India) and Vodafone on Monday to set up the so-called “Global TD-LTE Initiative”. The goal here is to reduce development costs for TD-LTE-based mobile software and hardware by streamlining...
A question I often get asked in the scope of my consulting work is: how many users do you think GREE can get at the maximum? Today, during a social media event in Tokyo, GREE executive Naoya Ito (background) says GREE is aiming for 100 million members. Ito went on saying that this Zynga-esque...
Japanese Groupon clone Luxa has today issued a report that sheds a light on the combined revenue Groupon and its 190 clones generate in Japan. Luxa began tracking data in April 2010 (when Piku, Japan’s first Groupon clone, launched). According to this data, sales grew steadily after April...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry