By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent, online fashion store operator Start Today and venture capital firm Globis Capital Partners have invested 350 million yen in Kayac, a web startup based out of Kamakura, Japan. According to reports in Japanese media, the stakes will add up to around 10% of the entire company. Kayac was...
CyberAgent quietly inked deal with Disney Japan to license some characters for Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan), CyberAgent’s wildly successful virtual world. To be more specific, CyberAgent created a “Disney Town” within Ameba Pigg, which looks like this (pictures via...
DeNA and CyberAgent today announced they will jointly launch an ad network specifically for the smartphone versions of Mobage (DeNA’s mobile social game platform) and Ameba (CyberAgent’s blogging and social networking platform). It’s one of the biggest alliances in Japan’s...
Last year, CyberAgent (its investment subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures, to be more precise) launched Startups2010, a program that was supposed to identify promising tech startups in Japan (report on Asiajin – actually the company started in 2009). And now CyberAgent has announced it’s...
CyberAgent‘s gaming subsidiary CyberX today announced that one of its hit social games on Mixi, Hoshizora Bar Town (Starry Sky Bar Town), has made its way to GREE for Japanese feature phones. As the name suggests, Hoshizora Bar Town is a “bar management simulation”: players set up...
Two investment-related news items from CyberAgent today: first, the decision to invest $120 million in startups in China and Taiwan and later the announcement to invest in Vietnam-based online shopping mall Vatgia.com. According to CyberAgent VC subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures, Vatgia.com is...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry