DeNA just announced a “business alliance” with Mixi under which the Mobage operator and Japan’s biggest homegrown social network will share the same game development platform starting as early as January 2013. DeNA explains: Beginning January 2013, developers can create their...
Mixi’s FY2012 Q2 Report: MAU Down Q-O-Q, Sales And Profit Up Y-O-Y [Social Networks]
Mixi has released its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, and it looks like the company’s actual situation is better than its current image in Japan. Sales and profit have gone up year-on-year as follows, but most of the key financial numbers went sideways or south quarter...
Mixi Message: Mixi Rolls Out Chat Function (You Read That Right) [Social Networks]
What I have always found extremely weird about Mixi was that Japan’s biggest home-grown social networking site never offered a decent chat function. For years and years, they never seemed to care. But it seems that the meteoric rise of Facebook and chat appĀ LINE in Japan has put so much...
Has Facebook Japan Finally Overtaken Mixi? Apparently, Yes. [Social Networks]
It looks like the number of active users for Facebook in Japan is now higher than that of Mixi. In March this year, Facebook caused a splash when the Tokyo office revealed its number of MAU doubled to 10 million from September 2011. Back then, I wrote: “If Facebook can keep this growth rate...
Mixi Park: Konami And Mixi Launch New Mobile Social Gaming Platform [Social Games]
There is already a social gaming platform embedded inĀ Japan’s real-identity social network Mixi (on both the PC and mobile versions), but that’s apparently no reason not to open a second one. Dubbed mixi Park, the new social gaming platform was launched today by Mixi itself and Konami...
Mixi’s Q1 FY2012 Report: Sales And Profit Up Y-O-Y, But MAU Declining [Social Networks]
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...