New Business
DeNA’s business lab with the entrepreneurial tradition
DeNA aims to make alliances with other companies in order to challenge new fields, and use the expertise it has gathered through its involvement in various businesses to advance into new operations.
Everystar
Everystar delivers general UGC (User Generated Content) media, for users to post and browse their hobbies and works in various fields, such as novels, comics, illustrations, photographs, essays, how-to articles and poetry in haiku, senryu, tanka styles. We are establishing a new type of mobile-based UGC (User Generated Content) media that strives to support the culture of widely disseminating hobbies and works, widens people’s pleasures and supports their creativity.
Skygate
http://www.skygate.co.jp [Japanese]
Skygate is a comprehensive online travel service that handles a wide range of services centered on overseas tours, discount international flight tickets, overseas hotels, domestic tours, discount domestic flight tickets, discount highway buses. Searching on a 24-hour realtime basis, seat vacancy queries, immediate bookings and payments are available. Bookings can also be made from the mobile site.
Shumee-to Club
Shumee-to Club is a social networking website for hobby-based social exchange among middle-aged and senior citizens. It began as a joint business with Club Tourism, a major Japanese travel agency. It can be used for all sorts of purposes, such as by people who want to meet people through their hobbies, people who want to use the Net to keep in touch with friends, and people who want to share photos of tour trips with other tour members.
Air Link
http://www.airlink.co.jp [Japanese]
Air Link is a business air travel support service used by around 100,000 customers a year. It is backed by 30 years of experience and expertise, primarily in arranging complex overseas trips but also covering arrangement of domestic trips, direct booking of official and discount tickets, and other services. Personally assigned agents provide total support, and surveys on “reception ranking” by the Help Desk Institute (HDI-Japan) awarded it the highest three stars for three consecutive years from 2006.