By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mixi has announced the acquisition of Naked Technology, a Tokyo-based mobile application development company. Naked Technology was founded in 2006 by a group of four engineers who are all graduates of the so-called MITOH program set up by the Japanese government to support outstanding engineers...
Registered users≠active users≠paying users: Mixi is about to lose three social games (on its PC platform) with more than 700,000 or even one million registered players each. Apart from RockYou Asia’s Speed Racing (about 720,000 registered players on September 16), Happy Aquarium by Drecom...
Social network analytics tool Socialbakers still says Facebook has 4.6 million users in Japan for some reason, but Facebook Japan itself now claims it has 5 million active users in this country (active=all users who logged in at least once in the last 30 days). TechCrunch Japan reported the newest...
DeNA did it for Mobage back in February, now Mixi is following: it’s now possible for subscribers to KDDI au using Mixi on Android phones to make payments via “KDDI au Kantan Kessai”. This mobile settlement service makes it possible to pay for Mixi points, Mixi’s virtual...
Earlier this week, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi changed two things on its website: First, Mixi introduced a new logo, as you can see on the picture below: Second, Mixi launched a new feature, Mixi Pages, which works much like Facebook pages: individuals, companies...
Last month, I attended an event in San Francisco entitled “Social Networks and Games: Transition from Web to Mobile in Japan and the US” when I spent a few days in California. The event, which was organized by the local office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) was very...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry