On Wednesday, Tokyo-based social app provider Pokelabo[J] announced that they had fundraised USD12M from Silicon Valley-headquartered VC firm DCM and IncubateFund[J], an investment fund by DeNA owning social app and mobile game platform Mobage-Town. Pokelabo was founded three years ago by the company’s CEO and his “Mixi[J]-mates”. It has developed flash games for feature phones,… Continue reading Tokyo’s Social App Provider Pokelabo Fundraises USD12M From DCM And Mobage-Town
Day: September 3, 2010
Hatena’s Ex-CTO Joins Gree
(Photo by Hatena PR[J]) On the last day of August, Japan’s system development guru Naoya Ito (@naoya_ito[J]) announced on his blog that he had stepped down from CTO post of Kyoto-based web services company Hatena[J](as reported in this Akky’s post). His fans and followers spent a day pondering what his next step would be,… Continue reading Hatena’s Ex-CTO Joins Gree
August 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Continued from (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Yahoo! Japan’s First AR App Is Showing Gundam Rival On iPhone via MyCom. Y!J release Kansai-ben Windows Customizer Changes Your Windows In 19 Different Japanese Dialects – commentary In Aichi pref., a man who had collected information of new books arriving at… Continue reading August 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 3)