Two e-commerce giants Rakuten and Amazon Japan have been discounting their shipping cost for free even your purchase is just few dollars since mid 2009 . Both of them, and some other follower online book sellers have been bleeding by extending their free shipping campaign. Now On November 1st 2010, Amazon Japan declared [J] that… Continue reading Amazon Japan Makes Free Delivery Campaign Persistent
How DeNA Beats Facebook and Zynga
Do you think Zynga is the hot player in town? Think again. At yesterday’s DeNA press conference, Founder and CEO Tomoko Nanba gave some great insight behind the seemingly unstoppable success of her company. An incredible ARPU With 20m users in Japan, Mobage Town, the social gaming network could be considered a small player compared… Continue reading How DeNA Beats Facebook and Zynga
Gree To Take Several Percent Stake In Singapore’s SMS/IM-based Social Network Mig33
Japan’s third largest social network GREE[J] announced today they would invest in Mig33 (by Project Goth, Inc.) who is a SMS and IM text messaging-based social network platform in Singapore. GREE plans to invest several million US dollars in Mig33’s series C round and to acquire several percent stake. This will be the first ever… Continue reading Gree To Take Several Percent Stake In Singapore’s SMS/IM-based Social Network Mig33
Hostess Club Social Game Is Popular Among Japanese Women
Japanese company KLab Inc. [J] ‘s social game “Koi-Shite-Kyaba-jyo(恋してキャバ嬢)” makes 5M users. Press release [J] Koi-Shite-Kyaba-jyo is a Japanese hostess club(Kyabakura) simulation game popular with women. Now, you can play this on GREE(mobile), mixi(mobile), MobageTown(mobile) and Yahoo!Mobage(PC) [J]. *My cell phone is iPhone4, so I can’t play Japanese mobile social games. These are screenshot of… Continue reading Hostess Club Social Game Is Popular Among Japanese Women
Nikkei Reporting Facebook-Mixi “Alliance” Lets Mixi Stock Up 6%
Thursday evening we reported that Facebook released a new application to put your updates on Facebook into its local rival Mixi. 2 hours later, 9:15 p.m. 28th (Japan Time), Nikkei reported [J] the news with a title “US Facebook allied(Teikei, in Japanese) with Mixi, shares information on social sites”. Nikkei said that Facebook announced their… Continue reading Nikkei Reporting Facebook-Mixi “Alliance” Lets Mixi Stock Up 6%
Barcode Kanojo – Barcode Battler Reincarnated With Otaku Flavour
Barcode Kanojo is a free iPhone Application with virtual social dating community service by Cybird, Japan-based mobile contents company. We reported the news title (only) in early August, but it seems to take time to be approved by Apple. You may download the application, scan any 1D barcode around you, then you will get one… Continue reading Barcode Kanojo – Barcode Battler Reincarnated With Otaku Flavour
Adtech Tokyo: Event Wrap Up
The 2nd annual Adtech Tokyo took place this week in Tokyo at the Prince Park Tower for marketing and agency professionals. The conference aims to gather leading thought-leaders to share insights and trends in digital marketing. This years programme featured 12 dedicated tracks, 36 individual sessions, and 5 keynotes. This article will summarize some of the speeches and… Continue reading Adtech Tokyo: Event Wrap Up
How Google Shopping Impacts On Kakaku.com’s Pricing Business?
Google launched its price comparison service intended to Japanese market today, that collects product description and price updates from an enormous number of e-commerce retailers and allows you to find the cheapest price at a glance. Google’s new service launch influenced the stock price of Japan’s largest e-commerce price comparison site Kakaku.com[J], it dropped slightly… Continue reading How Google Shopping Impacts On Kakaku.com’s Pricing Business?
Facebook Adds Mixi Connector For Japanese
Facebook has just released a new export tool to connect itself with Japanese competitor social networking service, Mixi. The tool on Facebook, named “Facebook to Mixi wo Rinku”(Link Facebook and Mixi), will take you to Mixi API’s approval page. Which asks the following permissions you allow to the Facebook connector to do on Mixi data,… Continue reading Facebook Adds Mixi Connector For Japanese
Twitter CRM Service CoTweet To Enter Japan Assisted By NTT Communications
On October 27th, NTT Communications announced [J] that they would cooperate with Indiana-based ExactTarget to promote their enterprise Twitter client for customer service CoTweet for Japan. They agreed to proceed developments of Japanese language localization and customization for Japanese companies. NTT Communications will provide technical assist, Japanese marketing, sales and Japanese support for paid Japanese… Continue reading Twitter CRM Service CoTweet To Enter Japan Assisted By NTT Communications