Their app app was launched back last December by Masahiro Morita who previously work with Rakuten as a business development producer. Some of our readers may recall that we featured Gamba in our coverage of Samurai Venture Summit. Yokohama-based startup Gamba announced today that its business reporting tool has been integrated with four code- and task-tracking tools: GitHub, BitBucket, Pivotal Tracker and Google Tasks.
In this way, coworkers get a brief update first can later explore… If you there are any additional details that you want to share with colleagues, that information will be submitted to the integrated third-party services mentioned above. In terms of differentiation from similar services, the app lets users post just an excerpt of their daily updates, which keeps things from being too troublesome. For management who has difficulty finding time to speak with employees face-to-face, it provides information on the progression of tasks and what are employees focusing on. For sales representatives or engineers, the app provides an easy way to share your updates with colleagues or management, at the beginning and the end of business hours. To date it has acquired more than 1,000 corporate accounts in Japan ranging from listed companies to SMEs. Or to get a better idea of the look and feel of this mobile virtual world, check out the promo video below.įor more information on the growth of Line and its vast repertoire of apps, including Line Play, please check out our interactive Line Timeline which chronicles its growth from its launch back in 2011 up until the present day.
If you have yet to try out Line Play, you can get it for free on the App Store or on Google Play. įrom now until August 4, Line will be holding special fan appreciation events within the app to mark the occasion, including bonus gem and ‘gacha’ events. Of course Line’s global mindset as a company, in contrast the the more insular CyberAgent certainly won’t hurt either. One would think that Line Play has a clear upper hand having been born on mobile – in contrast to Ameba Pigg which is scrambling to adjust to mobile. There are even games that you can play right within the app. It features the same kind of cute avatars which can be customized according to your preference, and a similarly styled virtual environment where you can decorate your own room and visit the rooms of others.
Line Play is very much following in the footsteps of CyberAgent’s virtual world Ameba Pigg, which itself has 15 million users. Having already reached the very impressive milestone of 200 million registered users earlier this week, Line Corporation has announced today that its Line Play virtual world application has over 10 million users around the globe, reaching that goal in just 8 months.