CyberAgent’s consolidated subsidiary company Appli bot, [J] who plan and manage applications for smartphone, have released the social card game “Furyoudou~Gang  Road~”, which held the #1 ranking top seller for Japan’s App Store, for Mobage.

“Gang Road” is based around the concept of a “scoundrel’s passion story game.” Set in the corners and alleys of an underground inner city society, you collect various types of gang cards and aim to be the strongest gang team.  With features like quests where you take out enemy characters to advance, synthesized components allowing 4 phases of evolution, and advanced production effects, it began its distribution as an iOS applicaion from February 6th and gained the number one top sales ranking at the Japan App Store merely ten days later.  “Gang Road” offered for Mobage can be played on both Android and iOS phone models.

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CyberAgent [J] has released the Android application “Pigg Talk.” [J]  In concert with this, the functions of the smart phone version of Ameba Pigg [J] have also been enhanced.  Download is free.

“Pigg Talk” is an application that allows group chat with companion “Pigg Tomo” friends from within Ameba Pigg.  It works in conjunction with the PC version of Ameba Pigg, so it enables chat which straddles the bounds between platforms.  Also, you can make your way over to friends’ rooms and do “Good Pigg” (a function for praising other members.)

Furthermore, in addition to the “Change Clothes,” “Coordination Log,” “Shop,” and “Capsule Toys Machine” functions available until now on the smartphone version of Ameba Pigg (Browser), “My Room” and “Going Out Function” have been added.

When you click on the “Going Out” button, you can go to plazas divided by category.

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CyberAgent’s [J] community service “Ameba” has announced that they along with Yahoo’s [J] “Yahoo! JAPAN” will sell the joint product “Broad Canvas [Yahoo! JAPAN×Ameba]” which combines both company’s advertisements for smartphone.

“Broad Canvas [Yahoo! JAPAN×Ameba]” is an advertisement product combining Ameba’s “Ameba for SmartPhone Touch Canvas” and Yahoo JAPAN’s “Smartphone Yahoo! JAPAN Smart Panel Expand.”  Advertising sponsors can post advertisements for both “Ameba” SmartPhone and “Yahoo! JAPAN” SmartPhone services by placing one order.  Also, after tapping a banner, rich and creative transmission with expanded view and animation is possible.  Both companies are aiming for 20 company publications a month, and they will implement joint development of new products into the future.

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CyberAgent [J] has announced that they will transfer their iPhone camera social network app “My365” over to Sirok, a subsidiary company they set up for developing smartphone applications.  From now on this new company will manage the service.

“My365” is an iPhone camera app that was released on October 26th of 2011.  Based on the concept of “When you look back at every casual day, lovely memories are made,” each day you store a photo of what you feel is an impressive moment  and upload it into your calendar.  By word of mouth, downloads have spread out to reach 300,000 at present.  Not only in Japan but also in Thai, Hong Kong and elsewhere it has ranked among the highest for free apps in the App Store photo category, and currently about 30% of access is from overseas users centered in the Asian continent.  This time Sirok, established as a subsidiary company, will take over as developing team for “My365” and continue to manage the service.  From here on they are plotting to expand “My365” functions and will proceed to develop an Android version.

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CyberAgent [J] announced on December 30th of 2011 that the number of users of their “Ameba” [J] community has topped 20 million.  To commemorate this momentous development of the “Ameba” service, they held the 20 Million Member Breakthrough! Thank You Campaign [J] between January 10th and 23rd.

Since the Ameba service opened in September of 2004, focused on blogs, they have expanded their various service develepment and features such as the virtual space “Ameba Pigg” and the miniblog “Ameba Nau,” and they have been steadily expanding their base of users.  Particularly their “Ameba Pigg” service, which opened in February of 2009, reached 10 million users in November of 2011.  Also in 2011 use from smartphones increased, and in one year, monthly page views grew by more than 10 times, continuing their rapid growth.

As for the “20 Million Member Breakthrough! Thank You Campaign,” plans in the works for various services offered by “Ameba” are being developed for PC, mobile and smartphone.  For “Ameba Pigg,” limited items are on sale for 20 Ame-Gold, and for 4 popular “Ameba Mobile” titles, each are giving away limited campaign items.  Also, during the campaign, 20 Million of the virtual currency “Ame-Gold” is being uniformly returned and distributed to all users who have purchased “Ame-Gold,” and various other plans are in effect.

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