By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Facebook Japan and the country’s biggest advertising agency Dentsu are copying an innovation from Mixi: both companies have announced the launch of “Postman”, a service that makes it possible to create and send New Year greeting postcards to your friends on Facebook. Just like...
The New Year is just around the corner, and millions of Japanese people will write even more postcards to friends, family and business partners to celebrate the occasion. Mixi, in 2008, started making it possible for users to create and send these so-called nengajo to their friends via Mixi, even...
Japanese web and digital advertising powerhouse CyberAgent has posted its financial report for fiscal 2011 today. And in a nutshell, things are looking pretty good for the owner of blogging platform Ameba, virtual world Ameba Pigg, and a handful of social gaming companies: sales: ¥119,578 million...
Mixi is ready to set up a US unit next month, but this is not all as far as its efforts in America are concerned: as reported on TechCrunch Japan, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network (over 25 million users), has entered a partnership with Silicon Valley-based NetService Ventures...
There are quite a few companies in Japan that are currently making good business with overcharging for Facebook-related B2B services, for example in e-commerce or marketing . The background is that Facebook, even though it’s growing in Japan, is still a black box for a lot of Japanese people...
Years after setting up a base in China, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi has announced it will open a subsidiary in the US as early as next month. Aptly named mixi America, the new unit is registered in Delaware, capitalized at US$5 million and wholly owned by Mixi in Japan...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry