By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
LINE, NHN Japan’s super-popular social app, is getting another push in Japan. KDDI, the country’s second largest mobile carrier (around 35 million customers), announced it will take LINE into its so-called “au Smart Pass” service. That service makes it possible for...
NHN Japan sure isn’t losing any time regarding their plan to transform social app LINE into a platform. Following games, a set of social networking features, horoscopes, a greeting card app, a drawing app, and a camera app, the company today announced yet another service based on LINE. With...
LINE, the super-popular social app from NHN Japan, is now counting 55 million users, up from 50 million a few weeks ago. According to the company, 25 million users are located in Japan. NHN Japan also discloses that LINE Birzzle, the first social game using the newly introduced LINE platform...
LINE, the popular messenger app made by NHN Japan, is now available for Blackberry OS, the company announced yesterday. As almost nobody in Japan uses a Blackberry (I’d say the “man on the street” wouldn’t even know what the term Blackberry means), this version was created...
Mixi posted its financial report for Q1 FY2012, and in a nutshell, things look mixed (no pun intended) for Japan’s biggest real-identity social network. To dive right into it, sales went up 18.5% in the April-June quarter 2012 when compared to the same timeframe last year. Profits even went...
From today, LINE, the impossibly successful messenger app made by NHN Japan, isn’t a messenger app anymore. As previously announced by the company, LINE is now officially a social network. By that, LINE tries to compete with Facebook. By focusing on mobile and a tight social graph, it tries...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry