KDDI and GREE will launch GREE Market, apps search service in summer /ITmedia

KDDI and GREE announced that they will provide GREE Market for au and other career's Android devices from summer of 2011 aiming to promote social applications on "au one GREE" and "GREE", social networking service for Android devices.

GREE Market offers search of applications as well as categorizing, ranking, and recommended applications. It also plans to add social features such as informing users  that friends start using applications for the future.

GREE Market is provided as an application on Android market or au one market. In addition, the application will be pre-installed on Android devices from au.

ITmedia 2/24/2011

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• KDDI invested in GREE in 2006, which was quite early phase and has leveraged the partnership so far.