{"id":11593,"date":"2010-12-08T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T02:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=11593"},"modified":"2010-12-08T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T02:27:58","slug":"breaking-japan-ftc-conducts-investigation-on-denamobage-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/breaking-japan-ftc-conducts-investigation-on-denamobage-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Japan FTC Conducts Investigation On DeNA(Mobage-Town)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nKyodo reports<\/a> [J] (11:08) that DeNA<\/a>, who runs one of Japan’s largest mobile social networking Mobage-Town, is subjected to an on-site investigation by Japan Fair Trade Commission(JFTC).
\nDeNA was rumored to ask their third-party game application providers not to provide games for Gree.
\n[Update] Nikkei follows<\/a> [J] (11:13) with more detail. It says that the investigation is for unfair business practices, on forcing third-parties to make exclusive contract with DeNA.
\nDeNA and Gree have been in severe competition, on number of users<\/a>, games ideas\/themes\/copyrights<\/a>, hiring<\/a>, etc.
\nJFTC approved Yahoo! Japan and Google search alliance last week<\/a>, which had been objected by some of their competitors.
\n[Update 13:36] Bloomberg followed<\/a> (12:43) Nikkei news.
\n[Update] DeNA COO Isao Moriyasu canceled his session in the afternoon at Infinite Venture Summit, Kyoto, Japan. Half a day later, CEO Tomoko Namba appeared on a session at LeWeb, Paris, France.<\/p>\n

See Also:<\/h3>\n

How DeNA Beats Facebook and Zynga<\/a> – DeNA’s business model is 30 times more profitable than Facebook
\nDeNA CEO Namba told her interests in alliance with Facebook or Zynga last month to Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyodo reports [J] (11:08) that DeNA, who runs one of Japan’s largest mobile social networking Mobage-Town, is subjected to an on-site investigation by Japan Fair Trade Commission(JFTC). DeNA was rumored to ask their third-party game application providers not to provide games for Gree. [Update] Nikkei follows [J] (11:13) with more detail. It says that the… Continue reading Breaking: Japan FTC Conducts Investigation On DeNA(Mobage-Town)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[883,1755,1837,2370,3751],"class_list":["post-11593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-dena","tag-isao-moriyasu","tag-jftc","tag-mobage-town","tag-tomoko-namba","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}