Two huge Japanese social gaming networks who are working on oversea expansion showed a new move to utilize their accumulated assets on Japanese feature phone world – Flash based games. On June 30, Mobage company DeNA announced [J] that they had purchased Broadtail, a Tokyo-based tech start-up, who developed a tool named “ExGame” to run… Continue reading Mobage And Gree Both To Bring Their Flash Games Into Smartphone
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DeNA(Mobage) Founder Tomoko Namba To Step Down CEO, COO Isao Moriyasu To Take Presidency
DeNA has just announced [J] that the board had decided to replace the head of the company after planned ordinary general meeting of shareholders on June 25th. [Update] DeNA issued English release, too. I did not need to translate them. Thank you for a comment, Tomo. Tomoko Namba, who founded DeNA in March 1999 and… Continue reading DeNA(Mobage) Founder Tomoko Namba To Step Down CEO, COO Isao Moriyasu To Take Presidency
DeNA And CyberAgent To Start Joint Smartphone Ads Network For Mobage/Ameba
DeNA announced that CyberAgent and they are to established a new joint venture company at the end of April. The company will form an ads network for smartphone since May. CyberAgent will own 51%, DeNA 49%. DeNA holds 24.48 million social network users on Mobage and Yahoo! Mobage, Cyber Agent has 13 million users on… Continue reading DeNA And CyberAgent To Start Joint Smartphone Ads Network For Mobage/Ameba
DeNA To Introduce Unified Brand ‘Mobage’ Worldwide
DeNA, a Japanese company who runs the Japan’s possibly-No.1 social network Mobage Town, announced [J] that they would change their current brands, Mobage Town(mbga.jp) in Japan and Plus+ Network (by ngmoco, which DeNA purchased in October 2010) in overseas, into single brand Mobage from March 28, 2011. At now, Japanese Mobage-Town’s logo is mix of… Continue reading DeNA To Introduce Unified Brand ‘Mobage’ Worldwide
Video: DeNA CEO Tomoko Namba’s Interview at LeWeb’10
Tomoko Namba, the CEO of Japanese mobile social gaming giant DeNA (and one of my personal heroes), gave a pretty interesting interview at web industry conference LeWeb’10 earlier this month. LeWeb organizer Loic LeMeur asked her for a full 20 minutes about her company’s history, present and future plans Namba, speaking in excellent English, doesn’t… Continue reading Video: DeNA CEO Tomoko Namba’s Interview at LeWeb’10
DeNA Exports Mobage In Alliance With Samsung
Yesterday issue of The Japan Times, on my monthly article I reported two social gaming network giants DeNA(Mobage Town) and Gree competition. And the competition between the two rivals is set to continue beyond their desire to be Japan’s leading social network as both companies are seeking another growth possibility — international markets. In the… Continue reading DeNA Exports Mobage In Alliance With Samsung