By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
LINE continues to amaze. Just a few weeks after hitting 40 million downloads, NHN Japan’s social app passed the 50 million mark (on July 26 Japanese time, to be exact). LINE was first released in the Japanese App Store on June 23, 2011. It took 399 days to go from zero to 50 million...
NHN Japan caused a big splash yesterday in Japan when the company announced its bold plans to transform LINE into something like a platform for games, music, coupons, books, news, and tons of other content. In addition, the messenger app itself will become more of a Facebook-type of social network...
LINE, a social/messenger app for smartphones and other devices, made by NHN Japan (the Tokyo-based office of the Korean web company), keeps growing and growing. Just a few weeks after hitting 30 million registered users (on April 18), the app reached the 40 million mark on June 6. Growth seems to...
Nikkei Business Online is reporting that Kenji Kasahara is ready to sell his 55% stake in Mixi (it’s not unusual for Japanese CEOs to hold such a large percentage of their companies, even after multiple rounds of funding and an IPO). To make it clear: this is just a rumor at this point, and...
CyberAgent‘s Ameba platform is becoming more and more popular. In their most recent financial report, the company has released some pretty interesting stats on how the blogging/social networking service grew over the last months in Japan. Monthly page views hit 36 billion in March –...
LINE, a smartphone messenger app made by NHN Japan, the Tokyo-based subsidiary of the Korean web powerhouse, continues to amaze. The app, which makes it possible for users to call or message each other for free, now boasts a whopping 30 million users – just after hitting 20 million last month...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry