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...Mobile game developer Mixi also said it had participated in various committees and study groups to discuss the promotion of sports business, including sports betting....
...The real interest here is in the technology companies — Rakuten, Mixi and Cyberagent being the most prominent — that have already developed mobile betting apps that allow wagering on Japan’s legal sports...
...Chiba Jets Funabashi, one of the league’s member teams, signed a partnership deal with mobile game developer Mixi to build a 10,000 capacity arena....
...Buying a 1970s or 1980s villa and refurbishing is one solution, says local architect Luis Quesada of Mixis Arquitectos....
...Analysts say Netmarble’s strength lies in its ability to come up with a steady stream of hit games, unlike Asian rivals such as Mixi or GungHO, which have failed to extend their strong performance after...
The country’s past arcade gaming prowess will help a new wave of developers hook smartphone owners
...The homegrown games that have dominated the mobile games app stores in Japan — GungHo’s Puzzle & Dragons and Mixi’s Monster Strike being the two biggest — failed to gain any traction when marketed overseas...
...The first half of the book analyses a number of social platforms, from the eHarmony and OKCupid dating sites to Twitter, Facebook and Japanese social network Mixi, looking at how these provide solutions...
...Twitter also had to contend with well-established local rivals such as Mixi, a social network founded in 2004....
...DeNA and Gree have both signed deals to supply games through Yahoo’s Japanese web portal, and Gree is working with Mixi, a Japanese social network that has wilted under assault from Facebook....
...It is one of a handful of social networks – alongside mig33, a mobile internet network popular in Indonesia, Mixi of Japan, and a slew of Chinese microblogs – that are growing in Asia by focusing on content...
...Mixi has ceded its crown to a trio of newcomers who understand the importance of games, chatter and virtual living....
...China’s QQ and Japan’s Mixi, for example, reap more from social gaming and “virtual goods”, such as clothes for users’ avatars (surely one of the highest-margin businesses ever invented)....
...Facebook faces large, established competitors in Asian markets, including Japan’s Mixi, Tencent QQ in China and Vkontakte of Russia....
...dominant search engine in South Korea with a 70 per cent market share, but Livedoor is now a minor player in a Japanese internet market that is dominated by Yahoo Japan, Google, and social networks such as Mixi...
...Facebook faces large, established competitors, including Japan’s Mixi, Tencent QQ in China and Vkontakte of Russia....
...One exception is Mixi, Japan’s most popular social-networking site (SNS)....
...For Japanese internet users of all ages, Mixi has become a favourite place to network online. In France, Dailymotion draws one of the biggest audiences for its user-generated videos....
...But Mixi, the social networking site listed amid high demand last September, jumped 7.4 per cent to Y1,750,000 after upgrading its profit forecast for the year to March 2007 to Y1.1bn from Y986m, citing...
...Mixi also has uniquely Japanese features that could make alternative social networking models from abroad less attractive....
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...Besides, once the small firecrackers are excluded – must-have stocks like Mixi, a social networking site that attracted hugely inflated bids but not a single seller on its debut – Japan’s IPO market looks...
...That deal was itself a response to the success of Mixi, a home-grown social networking site that has more than 10m Japanese members....
...Shares of Mixi, Japan’s biggest online community, nearly doubled to Y3,120,000 on its second day of listing after a strong market debut....
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