The Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, home to the GREE, Inc. headquarters.
GREE, Inc. (グリー株式会社, Gurī Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese Internet media company with headquarters in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Roppongi, Tokyo.[1] It has been operating the social network service GREE since its establishment in December 2004.
Nov. 2010 Announcement of investment in Project Goth, Inc.
Dec. 2010 Launches "GREE Platform for smartphone"
Dec. 2010 Exceeds 23.8 million users
Jan. 2011 Establishment of a subsidiary, GREE International, Inc. in the US
Jan. 2011 Acquisition of Atlantis Co., Ltd.
Jan. 2011 Announcement of business collaboration with Tencent
Apr. 2011 Buys US social mobile gaming platform OpenFeint for $104 million [2]
May 2012 GREE purchased the mobile game developer Funzio for $210 million[3]
Origin of the name GREE
The company name GREE comes from a hypothesis, Six Degrees of Separation postulated by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1967. "Six degrees of separation" is a hypothesis that everyone is approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth. If a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements are made, on average, any two people in the world can be connected in six steps or fewer.
The name symbolizes GREE’s hope to "create and provide any new possibilities of the Internet" and to "create new forms of fun, convenience, and excitement."
References
^"Company Information." GREE, Inc. Retrieved on March 4, 2012. "Headquarters Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan"
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