Japan social network firm finds mobile gaming success
Tokyo
IT was a familiar trajectory for a social network such as Facebook that did not happen to be Facebook: One moment there were tens of millions of users and a multi-billion-dollar stock market valuation. The next, a plunge towards whatever-happened-to-it oblivion.
But the Japanese technology company Mixi, once the dominant social network in its consummately Internet-connected home market, is rewriting the ending to its story, thanks to a striking act of self-reinvention.
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