Nintendo surges to hit six-year high, Pokemon GO hits UK marketShares of Nintendo Co (7974.T) jumped nearly 10 percent to a six-year high on Friday, extending their rally since the launch of its Pokemon GO augmented reality game and almost doubling the company's market value in just over a week. The mobile game has become an instant hit with more users in the United States than Twitter just one week after launch. A woman uses a portable battery pack to charge her phone while playing the augmented reality mobile game ''Pokemon Go'' by Nintendo in New York City, U.S. July 11, 2016. The game is now available in the United Kingdom and Germany after being launched in the United States, Australia and New Zealand last week. At that price, the stock is up 86 percent from last Thursday, adding almost $15 billion to the company's market value.

Source: VietNamNet News July 15, 2016 01:41 UTC