By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mobile social gaming in Japan is a huge market. One of the leading companies in that field, Tokyo–based GREE, has scored a big IPO today: The tech IPO is not completely dead. Last Wednesday, Japan’s third largest social network GREE, launched in 2004 by the company of the same name, listed...
Mixi is the quasi-standard when it comes to social network usage in Japan (read more in my Mixi-review). Japan’s second largest social network is called GREE. There is no information in English available about GREE online. That means outside Japan almost no one knows about this Web site even...
I regularly speak with a lot of Japanese IT experts and insiders personally: software developers, programmers, IT company owners, web designers, bloggers etc. Regardless of the size of the companies they are working for (some are self-employed) I am constantly impressed about their openness when...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry