By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent today announced a new iPhone app for Ameba members: Ameba Channel is supposed to make it easier to consume blogs available on the Ameba platform (CyberAgent calls the app a “blog reader”) on the iPhone. For that, CyberAgent decided to break down the Ameba blogging platform...
Mixi released the earnings result for the full fiscal year 2010 on its website. According to the report, Mixi now has 23.37 million users, saw sales growing 24.1% year-year-on-year, and operating income growing 22.5%.
The entire report can be downloaded in English from here.
How has the stock of Japan’s major social networking companies, Mixi, GREE, DeNA and CyberAgent, been doing in the past 5 years when compared to the development of the Nikkei? In a nutshell, investors seem to really love the potential social games offer. Here’s the chart for Mixi (IPO...
First DeNA, now CyberAgent: the company posted a few new documents on its website, all of which are available in English, but unlike DeNA, CyberAgent’s financial reports are about the second quarter of the current fiscal year. In a nutshell, things are looking pretty good at the moment for...
Earlier this month, DeNA and CyberAgent announced the launch of 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). The joint venture, which is 51% owned by CyberAgent and 49% by...
Twitter is huge in Japan, but CyberAgent thinks it has found a niche with Ameba tappie and Ameba tachy. Both services are free, were announced today and essentially offer the same function: they allow users to share “tweets” and communicate with a self-selected group of friends. Up to...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry