By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
It’s not a big surprise: MySpace Japan will close its office early next year, according to Japanese news site IT Media. According to the report, MySpace in the US will manage the Japanese version starting February 1, 2012. MySpace Japan was established as early as November 2006, but the...
Facebook Japan now boasts over 6 million registered users, if you believe the newest data coming from social media analytics service Socialbakers. To be more concrete, Facebook counts 6,267,540 registered Japanese members – again, according to Socialbakers. In other words, Facebook added...
Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi and Twitter Japan have officially announced that partnership that was leaked to the press a few days ago. The goal is to develop new products and advertising services, with Mixi hinting at a function that may make it possible for their users...
Twitter isn’t as hot in Japan as it was in 2010, but it’s still huge and firmly established itself as one of the top web brands in the country. Reason enough for Mixi, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network to partner up with Twitter next week. Japanese tech news site IT...
In their latest financial report, Mixi didn’t only report numbers but also announced a major overhaul of its app platform for November 15. It’s the most radical revamp of that section ever and is likely to benefit social game makers. The basic idea is to split the apps section into two...
Mixi has released the financial report for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 (July to September), and in a nutshell, things aren’t looking too good for Japan’s biggest social network: while sales have slightly (1.8%) risen to US$39.66 million, operating profit fell 16.8% to US$6.54...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry