By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA’s social game platform on the PC, gets a new hit title from Tecmo Koei. Players wanting to register for an early version of “Nobunyaga No Yabou” (Nobunyaga’s Ambition”, a war simulation game), could do so today. However...
Should Yahoo sell its 34.78% stake in Yahoo Japan? The question has been asked for several years now if Yahoo Japan (founded in 1996) should become more independent of its US counterpart. SoftBank owns more than Yahoo itself (37.36%). Yahoo Japan is currently worth $21.5 billion at the Tokyo Stock...
CNET Japan wrote a pretty interesting analysis on the success of Rakuten Recipe, a recipe site Japan’s biggest e-commerce company is running. Here’s a short summary: Rakuten opened the site in October 2010. Rakuten Recipe now has 40,000 recipes and a whopping 2 million users. Yahoo...
DeNA today announced it will make it possible for the 2 million users of Yahoo Mobage, its PC-based social games platform run with Yahoo Japan, to pay via online banking. The obvious goal is to remove friction for players paying real money for virtual in-game or avatar-related items (and to boost...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC social games platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage-town), is continuing to grow nicely. Today it was reported that Yahoo Mobage now has 2 million users. The first million users were counted after 51 days, while it took Yahoo Mobage to get a second million in 53 days. 68%...
A nice win GREE announced today: following Mixi, GREE has succeeded in getting its “Like/Share” button on Yahoo Japan (15 services, i.e. Yahoo News, Q&A, Finance, Beauty, etc.) – on the PC, feature and smart phones. The collaboration should help GREE strengthen its social graph on...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry