By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Facebook is growing in Japan, Twitter is already huge – no surprise that GREE now lets you find and invite friends registered on these social networks with the push of a button. GREE enabled the two new options on its PC and smartphone platforms today. All you need to do is to enter your...
Good news for Facebook Japan lately: driven by heavy coverage in local media, the Social Network movie (that topped the box office in Japan) and a few other factors, Facebook has now hit 2.55 million users. That’s still a far cry from the 23 million users Mixi boasts, but Facebook added...
Japan’s No. 1 recipe site Cookpad (listed, 2193) posted its newest financial report [JP, PDF] for the third quarter of fiscal 2011, and things are looking pretty good. Sales soared 61.8% to 24.11 billion yen ($29.1 million), while net profit grew 86.2% to 722 million yen ($8.7 million)...
Digital Garage has made an investment in an American startup again: TechCrunch reported that DG is part of a group of (star) investors who injected $1.7 million in San Francisco-based online ad startup ContextLogic. Terms of the deal, an angel investment, weren’t disclosed. ContextLogic is...
YouTube yesterday said that its Japanese site will live-stream the 12th Tokyo Girls Collection fashion show as an official partner. Viewers will be able to watch the show from 2pm until 10pm tomorrow (Japanese time). Tokyo Girls Collection is a bi-annual fashion show (featuring celebrity models)...
I am not sure if YouTube Japan and Nico Nico Douga will be amused about this: Tokyo-based startup Knowledge Flow has developed Niccori Chanel Viewer, a service that essentially mixes YouTube and Nico Nico Douga. Niccori is based on Nico Comment, a service that allows users to add comments to videos...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry