By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Here’s an interesting article on how Groupon is doing in Japan and how it competes with its rivals (Pike, Ponpare etc.). The company makes $12 million in revenue in Japan per month, which is about two times of what it’s biggest rival generates. I reported a few days ago that Groupon...
Kakaku isn’t only a price comparison engine: the eponymous company behind the service also offers Tabelog, a restaurant site that’s competing with Gourmet Navigator (listed, 2440). What many people don’t know is that Tabelog used to be just a forum for people to discuss...
It’s safe to call Japan’s biggest price comparison engine, Kakaku.com, an iconic web brand in this country. The company made $31 million in net profit in fiscal 2009 – that’s 11 times what it was generating when it went public in October 2003. What’s interesting is...
I reported yesterday about DeNA’s plans to consolidate its branding and call it social gaming platform Mobage-town just “Mobage” in Japan and elsewhere. DeNA employs 30 foreigners (out of a work force of 800 people) currently. And just now, I stumbled upon this interesting...
Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo has trouble attracting subscribers to BeeTV, its mobile TV broadcasting service. Growth has slowed down dramatically in recent months: Mobile TV is often cited as being a dream of the future in most markets, but it has been around in Japan, the...
DeNA just announced that it will rebrand its mobile social gaming platform Mobage-town to just “Mobage” from March 28. Mobage will also be the brand name for international markets. ngmoco’s plus+ community will be absorbed into Mobage from that day as well. At the same time, DeNA...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry