Day: February 6, 2012

Istyle(@cosme) Goes IPO On TSE Mothers

(@cosme’s tag line on the logo is “site of everyone’s word of mouth”) Istyle [J], who runs Japan’s top cosmetic products review site @Cosme, announced [J] on February 3, 2012, that they will be listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers (Tosho Mothers) planned on March 8, 2012. The company was established in 1999, and its… Continue reading Istyle(@cosme) Goes IPO On TSE Mothers

Japan’s Web News Week 5

This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Docomo Announces To Take Over Online Grocery Service Radishbo-ya. Radishbo-ya’s release Smartphone Time-recorder Solution Driven By Virtual High-school Girl Government Bond Recommended To Prepare For Possible Crash Of Government Bond!! –… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 5

Many Hatsune Miku Videos Being Removed From YouTube By Invalid Copyright Report

Popular human voice synthesizer Vocaloid Hatsune Miku are getting known oversea as a Japanese web phenomenon. Like the global company Google picked it up as a “singer” for Chrome promotion in Japan, where they chose Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga for US. As the Chrome video shows, there are massive number of generated songs and… Continue reading Many Hatsune Miku Videos Being Removed From YouTube By Invalid Copyright Report

CyberAgent Establishes Subsidiary Company For iPhone Camera App “My365”

CyberAgent [J] has announced that they will transfer their iPhone camera social network app “My365” over to Sirok, a subsidiary company they set up for developing smartphone applications.  From now on this new company will manage the service. “My365” is an iPhone camera app that was released on October 26th of 2011.  Based on the… Continue reading CyberAgent Establishes Subsidiary Company For iPhone Camera App “My365”