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Mixi To Replace CEO President After One Year

Today Mixi announced [J] that Yusuke Asakura, who took the lead at long-struggling Japanese Facebook rival since last June, will be replaced with Hiroki Morita, an executive officer managing the recent hit social game Monster Strike. The release said that this financial year Mixi will get black inc, moves from its business reconstruction phase to… Continue reading Mixi To Replace CEO President After One Year

Mixi Renewed iPhone Messaging App With Stamp/Photo

Mixi released an new iPhone app “Mixi Talk”, which enables users to send Mixi message with stamps and photos. [app id:698125920] No such application found. Maybe deleted? Embed iPhone/iPad App Mixi has been offering an official iOS app, which covers more features from PC/feature-phone Mixi. This message app seems to try to stop losing users… Continue reading Mixi Renewed iPhone Messaging App With Stamp/Photo

Asahi Reports Mixi To Begin Free Call Service, Mixi Denies

Asahi Digital published an interview of new Mixi president Yusuke Asakura [J], titled “Mixi expand to free call app business beyond social network” today. Mixi quickly released a short release that it is not a fact [J].

Mixi Appoints A New President. CEO Kasahara To Be A Chairman

Mixi, a Japanese local social networking service competing against Facebook, announced today [J] that the founder, president and the largest stockholder Kenji Kasahara is to hand over the presidency to Yusuke Asakura. Asakura, born in 1982, 30 years old, who joined Mixi in October 2011 when Mixi purchased his founding company Naked Technology. According to… Continue reading Mixi Appoints A New President. CEO Kasahara To Be A Chairman

Mixi Adds Facebook-like Poke With Comic Fonts Messages

Mixi added a new feature “Mixi Hello!” on March 25. With it, users can send pre-set messages in comic style to your friends, by 1-click without writing any letter. The pre-set messages are, “Oh Yeah!”, “Hello!”, “Long time no see”, “Hi”, “How are you?” and “Take care”. Mixi said [J] that the function was introduced… Continue reading Mixi Adds Facebook-like Poke With Comic Fonts Messages

Mixi Launches Smartphone Photo App Sends You Free Photobook Every Month

Mixi released iPhone/Android free app Nohana [J] today. The app is a camera application with backend photo storage web service. Every month, you get one free photobook (stamp fee 90-yen = $1 required though) made from your taking photos. The book will have 28 pages with 20 photos. They said that their business model is… Continue reading Mixi Launches Smartphone Photo App Sends You Free Photobook Every Month

Cybridge Buys Smartphone App Developer Conit From Mixi

Cybridge, Inc. [J] has announced that they have acquired all stocks of Conit, Inc. [J] from mixi, Inc. [J]. Conit is a company the entered into the mixi umbrella in November 2011, their business centers around smartphone application planning and development. They manage the ASP “Samurai Smartphone Services” such as the iPhone/iPad/Android application contents billing… Continue reading Cybridge Buys Smartphone App Developer Conit From Mixi

mixi Opens Experimental Message Function

mixi, Inc. [J] has implemented an experimental application of a real time chat-like function on the “mixi message” function of their SNS “mixi.” [J] “mixi message” is a messaging service that has been offered since the initial stage of the mixi service, and exchanges of a total of over 5.7 billion messages have taken place… Continue reading mixi Opens Experimental Message Function