{"id":9131,"date":"2010-07-08T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T23:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2010-07-08T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T23:48:14","slug":"grees-operating-profit-jumps-130-to-222-million-in-last-fiscal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/grees-operating-profit-jumps-130-to-222-million-in-last-fiscal\/","title":{"rendered":"GREE&#8217;s operating profit jumps 130% to $222 million in last fiscal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gree-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1376\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gree-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"73\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/gree\/\">mobile social gaming giant<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gree.jp\">GREE<\/a> is becoming so successful, it&#8217;s scary. According to Japanese daily The Nikkei, the Tokyo-based company&#8217;s operating profit ballooned to 19.5 billion yen ($222 million) in the fiscal year that ended in June. That&#8217;s $17 million more than the company expected and a whopping 130% more than in the year before.<br \/>\nGREE&#8217;s yearly revenue even grew 140% year-on-year to hit $387 million, which is also slightly more than projected.<br \/>\nThe Nikkei says that membership exceeded 20 million at the end of last month (a 60% increase year-on-year), meaning GREE is now more or less as <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/japans-no-1-social-network-now-boasts-20-million-members\/\">big<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/mixi\/\">Mixi<\/a>. Reportedly, GREE currently gets 500,000 to 600,000 new members per month.<br \/>\nGREE itself hasn&#8217;t confirmed the news on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gree.co.jp\/\">corporate site<\/a> yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s mobile social gaming giant GREE is becoming so successful, it&#8217;s scary. According to Japanese daily The Nikkei, the Tokyo-based company&#8217;s operating profit ballooned to 19.5 billion yen ($222 million) in the fiscal year that ended in June. That&#8217;s $17 million more than the company expected and a whopping 130% more than in the year&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/grees-operating-profit-jumps-130-to-222-million-in-last-fiscal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GREE&#8217;s operating profit jumps 130% to $222 million in last fiscal<\/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":[17,24],"tags":[1190,1441,2759],"class_list":["post-9131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-financials","tag-gree","tag-operating-profit","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131","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=9131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}