{"id":8487,"date":"2010-05-11T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2010-05-11T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:04:24","slug":"cyberagent-acquires-20-stake-in-chinese-android-development-firm-mappn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/cyberagent-acquires-20-stake-in-chinese-android-development-firm-mappn\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberAgent Acquires 20% Stake In Chinese Android Development Firm mAPPn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/CyberAgent-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6879\" title=\"CyberAgent's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/CyberAgent-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mappn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8489\" title=\"mappn\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mappn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Japanese and Chinese web industries keep getting closer together. Yesterday Tokyo-based Internet behemoth <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/ir.cyberagent.co.jp\/ir_e\/');\" href=\"http:\/\/ir.cyberagent.co.jp\/ir_e\/\">CyberAgent<\/a> (currently listed at the  Tokyo Stock Exchange with a $1 billion market cap) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cai.co.jp\/english\/news000034.html\">announced<\/a> it will take a 20% stake in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappn.com\/index.php\">mAPPn<\/a>, an Android development firm with offices in China, Taiwan and the US (the press release in Japanese is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/news\/press\/2010\/0510_1.html\">here<\/a>).<br \/>\nFinancial details of the deal, which was handled by CyberAgent&#8217;s investment arm, weren&#8217;t disclosed. But CyberAgent says the agreement is aimed at marketing Android services and apps made in Japan to Chinese customers.<br \/>\nEstablished just in February last year, mAPPn Wireless has so far managed to churn out a Chinese-language Android OS, an app marketplace and a Chinese Android fan community (next to a number of self-developed apps).<br \/>\nCyberAgent claims that mAPPn OS has been installed on some 60% of all Android handsets in China and expects rapid growth in the future. mAPPn is also releasing apps for the iPhone.<br \/>\nThe current <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/03\/22\/google-shuts-down-chinese-search-redirects-to-hong-kong\/\">tensions<\/a> between Google and  the Chinese government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/190886\/android_largely_unharmed_in_googlechina_row.html\">haven&#8217;t made<\/a> a big impact on Android&#8217;s future in China so far, and even Google CFO Patrick Pichette still <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-10468684-94.html\">sees<\/a> huge potential in that country. We&#8217;ll keep you posted on CyberAgent&#8217;s and mAPPn&#8217;s cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese and Chinese web industries keep getting closer together. Yesterday Tokyo-based Internet behemoth CyberAgent (currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a $1 billion market cap) announced it will take a 20% stake in mAPPn, an Android development firm with offices in China, Taiwan and the US (the press release in Japanese is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/cyberagent-acquires-20-stake-in-chinese-android-development-firm-mappn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CyberAgent Acquires 20% Stake In Chinese Android Development Firm mAPPn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[5,7,17,24],"tags":[224,412,633,808,810,2212],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-china","category-japan","category-news","tag-android","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-cyberagent","tag-cyberagent-investment","tag-mappn-wireless","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}