Here is an updated calendar of major free-to-play native apps that publicly traded Japanese mobile game makers have announced for the coming months. Please note that these titles can be modified, canceled, or released at any given time. The list isn’t necessarily exhaustive, as games can...
GameBank: Yahoo Japan’s New Subsidiary Announces Its First Games
As I mentioned here on my company blog last September already, no other than Yahoo Japan (4689), the country’s biggest online company, has been planning to enter the mobile gaming business. Fast forward to today, and GameBank, the subsidiary Yahoo Japan set up for its new unit earlier this year, is...
Yahoo Japan Starts Mobile Game Publishing Business
Yahoo Japan (4689), the country’s biggest online company, is entering the smartphone game publishing business. The news started making the rounds over here after this recruitment page went online, where the company is looking for game producers, designers, planners, and a whole range of other...
Yahoo Japan Inks Deal With Twitter For Real-Time Search Results [Search Engines]
Big news from Japan’s search engine market: Yahoo Japan has landed a deal with Twitter that makes it possible to integrate real-time search pulled from Twitter in Yahoo Japan’s results pages. Twitter is huge in Japan, and Yahoo Japan is not only the country’s biggest website, but...
Yahoo Japan Beefs Up Yahoo Shopping With FashionNavi [E-Commerce]
Yahoo Japan just added FashionNavi to its popular Yahoo Shopping site, a similar image search engine that’s supposed to make shopping easier and drive sales. The way it works is similar to Hitachi’s (now shut down) Gazopa: if a user needs to find another item that fits the one they are...
Yahoo Japan And Convenience Store Chain Lawson Sign Marketing Deal [Search Engines]
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, and major convenience store chain Lawson have signed a deal under which the companies will promote each other’s products and services. First, Lawson will establish a virtual shopping mall selling many of their own products plus items listed on...