mixi announced to provide a new service, Social Phone, which allows users to view status update in mixi or to link friends' data in mixi with address book of a smartphone.
Social Phone will be available on smartphones with Android 2.2 or later. The service is only available for Softbank Mobile until the end of June of 2011. Users can download the application on Android Market. A part of mobile devices have the application pre-installed.
CNET 11/4/2010
Nov 4, 2010
Nov 2, 2010
Ameba Pigg Android app released using Adobe AIR
CyberAgent launched Android app of Ameba Pigg, avatar community, which was developed using Adobe AIR for Android. The app is free on Android Market.
It plans to sell the app on multi-stores including Docomo Market and also will release an app of AmebaPico, English version of Ameba Pigg in the next year.
ITmedia 11/1/2010
It plans to sell the app on multi-stores including Docomo Market and also will release an app of AmebaPico, English version of Ameba Pigg in the next year.
ITmedia 11/1/2010
NTT Investment Partners invests in Nihon Gigei, cloud solution provider
NTT Investment Partners invests 38 million yen through its operating fund by an allocation of new shares of Nihon Gigei.
Nihon Gigei provides web services for business customers on cloud computing platform taking advantage of its original approach combining technology and art.
NTT Investment Partners press release 11/1/2010
Nihon Gigei provides web services for business customers on cloud computing platform taking advantage of its original approach combining technology and art.
NTT Investment Partners press release 11/1/2010
DeNA announced Q2 earnings - Revenue tripled on a year-to-year basis to 27B yen
DeNA announced the financial statement of its second quarter (2010 July-September). The revenue is 27 billion yen and the operating profits is 13.6 billion yen.
The biggest contributor for the growth is social media business such as virtual goods sales of social games, which shares 23.2 billion yen.
The company's operating social networking service, Mobage-town reaches 21.67 million users. It has 241 of 3rd party game develops providing 567 game titles. Moba-coin, virtual money for social games, is consumed 18 times more than January of this year.
Yahoo! Mobage, social game service for PC launched on October 7th, has 840,000 users as of October 28th. 15% of users are 10s, 29% for 20s and 56% for over 30s. It has succeeded to acquire higher aged users than Mobage-town, which is aligned with its original intention.
CNET 11/1/2010
The biggest contributor for the growth is social media business such as virtual goods sales of social games, which shares 23.2 billion yen.
The company's operating social networking service, Mobage-town reaches 21.67 million users. It has 241 of 3rd party game develops providing 567 game titles. Moba-coin, virtual money for social games, is consumed 18 times more than January of this year.
Yahoo! Mobage, social game service for PC launched on October 7th, has 840,000 users as of October 28th. 15% of users are 10s, 29% for 20s and 56% for over 30s. It has succeeded to acquire higher aged users than Mobage-town, which is aligned with its original intention.
CNET 11/1/2010
Nov 1, 2010
GREE invests in mig33, Singapore based mobile SNS
The investment is the series C round for mig 33, which seems to use the capital for expanding the services to smartphones. Other investors are not disclosed. GREE invests several million dollars to obtain several percent.
mig33 is mobile SNS targeting for feature phones, which has 40 million users in total mainly in south east Asia expanding to India, Africa, Middle East and eastern Europe. Monthly active users are said to be around 4 million.
Before the series C, mig33 has got investment of $23.5 million from venture capitals such as Accel Partners, Redpoint and DCM.
TechCrunch 11/1/2010
mig33 is mobile SNS targeting for feature phones, which has 40 million users in total mainly in south east Asia expanding to India, Africa, Middle East and eastern Europe. Monthly active users are said to be around 4 million.
Before the series C, mig33 has got investment of $23.5 million from venture capitals such as Accel Partners, Redpoint and DCM.
TechCrunch 11/1/2010
Moshimo partners with Digital Garage Group to strengthen Twitter linkage
DG Strategic Partners, 100% subsidiary of Digital Garage in charge of strategic investment deals, buys all stocks which the existing shareholder, SBI Veritrance, posseses. This is the first deal for DG Strategic Partners.
Moshimo operates Moshifes, flash marketing type of affiliate service using Twitter launched on this August. Within this year, the company plans to allow to login its drop shipping or affiliate service with Twitter accounts and also Moshimo members (350,000) can post tweets for promotion with its dashboard.
Venture Now 10/29/2010
Moshimo operates Moshifes, flash marketing type of affiliate service using Twitter launched on this August. Within this year, the company plans to allow to login its drop shipping or affiliate service with Twitter accounts and also Moshimo members (350,000) can post tweets for promotion with its dashboard.
Venture Now 10/29/2010
GREE acquires shares of istyle, cosmetics UGC site, @cosme, operator
GREE announced that it acquires 4.2% of share of istyle from an existing share holder. istyle operates @cosme which is popular in 20s and 30s females. With the acquisition, GREE develops partnership with the company.
CNET 10/29/2010
CNET 10/29/2010
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