Social Games and Gaming Trends in Japan (Slideshare Presentation)
When Dr. Serkan Toto says something about Japan’s social gaming scene, we tend to listen, because he’s an expert with years of e...
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Japanese Photo App DecoAlbum Gets Funding, Because Kawaii Never Goes Out of Style
Japanese photo app DecoAlbum has just revealed the finalization of $100,000 in seed funding from East Ventures
Google Street View Ventures into Post-Quake, Off-Limits Fukushima Prefecture
A little more than two years after the colossal Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 2011, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has let its Street...
SoftBank to Take Majority Stake In ‘Puzzle and Dragons’ Maker GungHo
With the investment, the telco’s stake in the Puzzle and Dragons game maker increases from 33.6 to 58.5 percent.
Got Game: Japan’s NTT Docomo to Launch ‘D Game’ Portal Tomorrow with China Mobile
Japan’s NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) is buddying up with another giant telco, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), to bring its mobile gaming porta...
Truecaller Now Installed on Every 7th Smartphone in India, Eyes Japan and Indonesia Next
Sweden-based crowdsourcing phone directory app Truecaller announced today that the company now processes around 500 million name and number ...
Docomo Confirms Acquisition of MagaSeek for $21 Million to Boost E-Commerce Efforts
Today, Japanese telco NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) has confirmed that its proposed stake in fashion-oriented e-store MagaSeek (TYO:3060) has been a...
Line’s Now Got 120 Million Users And Line Play Rocks Southeast Asia
Japan-based app Line announced today that the company has reached another milestone by hitting the 120 million users landmark, an increase o...
Japan’s Cutesy Photodeco App Hits 500,000 Downloads
Made by Japanese mobile giant I-Freek, the photo customization app Photodeco has hit 500,000 downloads in nine months.
Groovy, Baby: DeNA Launches Social Music App for Japan
When the Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) rebranded a couple of months ago, it also teased an upcoming social music service. Tod...
Gungho’s ‘Puzzle and Dragons’ Probably Made Up to $86 Million In Sales Last Month
The crazy Puzzle and Dragons boom in Japan continues – and it gets even crazier. Maker GungHo (3765.OS) posted a new financial document...
Japan’s Metaps Teams Up With Appota To Monetize Apps in Vietnam
Metaps, the Android monetization platform out of Japan that just secured $11 million in series B funding, is today teaming up with Vietnamâ€...
Japan’s Flash Sales Frenzy Continues with Series B Funding for Luxa
Selling everything from pricey sake to quality skincare products, Luxa.jp, as its name might suggest, is a luxury-oriented e-commerce site. ...
Backed By Japan’s WWS Corp, NusaResearch Aims to be Indonesia’s Top Online Research Firm
Indonesian online market research site NusaResearch is a startup that believes its Japanese expertise can spice up the Indonesian research e...
GREE Games Put Up Some Impressive Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
You probably already know that Japan’s GREE is a mobile gaming giant. But just how giant is giant? How big are GREE’s biggest mo...
Japan’s VPN Gate Brings Free VPNs to the Masses
VPNs are useful for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that they help you hop over China’s Great Firewall and evade the co...
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