By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo has trouble attracting subscribers to BeeTV, its mobile TV broadcasting service. Growth has slowed down dramatically in recent months: Mobile TV is often cited as being a dream of the future in most markets, but it has been around in Japan, the...
I just put up an article on Mixi’s new smartphone functions, “Mixi Real Check” And “Mixi Real Check In” for Android, on TechCrunch. The article explains these functions, which were demo’d to me and just a handful of other people earlier this weekend at...
Japan’s biggest social network Mixi invited me (and a small group of about 10 other people) to a special event at their HQ in central Tokyo last night to introduce two new services that are unique for social networks worldwide. Mixi CEO Kenji Kasahara, COO Akinori Harada, CFO Fumiaki Koizumi...
How can Facebook Japan beat Mixi in Japan? It seems the Americans think one way is to differentiate themselves from Mixi is by urging users to register with their real names only. On Mixi, members are allowed to use nicknames and fake pictures on their profiles. Even though this makes it hard (and...
CyberAgent on Friday announced that its “Ameba Geinoujin-Yuumeijin” (“Ameba Talents-Celebrities”) blogging platform has hit the 9,000 user mark in January. This section on Ameba is exclusively available for bloggers “accredited” by CyberAgent as “stars”. Ameba Geinoujin...
CyberAgent today announced its main Internet platform, Ameba, is now counting a whopping 13 million members. In fact, Ameba hit this mark one month ago, on January 5. One factor driving growth for CyberAgent is the aggressive TV advertising campaign the company started in the fall of last year and...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry