Japan is a kind of isolated country from various perspectives. So sometimes many things show unique developments. Those phenomena is called Galapagoz-ka, where many species have been developed uniquely,
IT techologies and service companies are one of the typical industry that shows unique trend.
For instance, community site, MIXi is unique SNS service in Japan, while Facebook is trying to squeeze into Japanese Market.
GREE is a gaming platform company focusing on the mobile phone, which has 25 million users, according to its announcement.
Now the company is expanding overseas business aggressively and announced that they will acquire OpenFeint Inc,(HQed in California, U.S) with USD 104 millon dollars.
Founder and CEO of GREE is Yoshikazu Tanaka, who graduated from Nihon Univ and ex-employee of Rakuten co.
His aggressive management style is well known and enabled the comapany to grow rapidly. So, let's see if his new challenge will work as planned.
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