By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
LinkedIn surely faces an uphill battle in Japan, the country with the long list of business social networks that failed, but the company is trying. After rolling out a version with Japanese UI, establishing an office in Tokyo, and launching a special “navigation” service specifically...
Mixi, Japan’s biggest social network (still), is getting more serious about social commerce: the company has entered a partnership with Mobage operator DeNA to launch Mixi Mall. The social commerce platform was pre-announced back in January. DeNA is bringing in its experience in running a...
Facebook reached an important milestone: the company’s Tokyo subsidiary today announced that the number of active Japanese users on Facebook users hit 10 million (active=logged in at least once per month). In other words, 10% of Japan’s web population is actively using Facebook. The...
Mixi released their financial report for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 (October to December 2011), and things aren’t looking too good for Japan’s largest social network. Sales, for example, went down 2.7% year-on-year to 3.447 billion yen (US$45 million), while operating profit...
Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi and Mobage operator DeNA have announced an e-commerce partnership. The companies are in the process of setting up an online shopping service for Mixi members that’s scheduled to start in late March this year. The idea here is to combine...
CyberAgent has announced that Ameba, its social networking and blogging platform, hit 20 million users across all related services at the end of last year. Ameba started off as a blogging platform in September 2004 and added various services like Ameba Pigg or Twitter clone Ameba Now over the years...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry