Mapion Inc. [J] and TF Payment Service [J] have developed a service that allows the use of mobile game special points at real shops.

This uses NFC, and by linking the service platforms of both companies, payments are settled simply by holding a smartphone.  It acquires a series of marketing data from customer introduction to payment of account.  From this, shop businesses and all kinds of internet businesses can develop more effective 020 (online to online) services which combine the net world with real world actions.  From October of 2012 Mapion is offering the 020 platform “Stamp” which includes various services based on the mobile location based game with over 1.07 million users, Keitai Kuni Tori Gassen [J] (Cell Phone Country Taking Battle).  An original special point system “star,” in which gains can be made according to the level of mission achievement within the game, is being developed in coordination with “Stamp.”  On the other side TFPS is offering a cloud type payment platform service “Thincacloud” which uses NFC technology, from June of 2012.  “Thincacloud” supports two methods of payment: over the counter use (face to face payment) as well as online use (no face to face), and it adds all kinds of electronic money payments, allowing the materialization of customer attraction using NFC and services based on 020.  Furthermore, TFPS is exhibiting a demonstration of this policy at the “NFC & Smart WORLD 2013” held at Tokyo Big Site.

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Web Money, Inc. [J] has begun the “Web Money Store Card” which corresponds with NFC (Near Field Communication), based on cooperation with Net Alive, Inc. [J], as well as its payment service terminal.

Web Money has appended the “Web Money Store Card,” which until now has been offered as a magnetic card, and has developed a payment terminal and “Web Money Store Card” newly based on the NFC forum method.  From this, not only will it be possible to make speedier transactions, but also it will be possible to develop service to match the popularization of NFC which is expected to expand from here on.  They exhibited a demo machine in the “CASTLES TECHNOLOGY” booth at the “Second NFC & Smart WORLD 2013” [J] held at Tokyo Big Site from March 3rd through the 8th.

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mobcast, Inc. [J] has announced that they will strengthen their collaboration with pro baseball by working together with Osaka Dome, newly establishing “moba pro seat” on the field.

“Pro moba seat” is to be set up on the baseball field, and spectators will be able to see the intensity of play from the same point of view as the players at the place nearest to where they are.  From now, they are planning to implement limited campaigns and services aimed at mobcast [J] users connected with “moba pro seat”  as well as users of their baseball social game Mobapro [J].  This campaign which “moba pro seat” will enact as the first stage will begin from the middle of March.

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SoftEther Corporation [J] and Tsukulus Co., Ltd. [J] have released Charamin Omp [J], software featuring a 3DCG character who dances together with music.  It runs on Windows XP/7/8 and 64 bit versions 7/8, and you can download it from their official site.

“Charamin Omp” is the successor to “MOOSTA OMP,” a 3D data and materials service opened by “moosta” in October of last year, whose service was terminated on January 31st.  It analyzes data from an MP3 file and can automatically make a 3D character dance.  As well as experimentally supporting PMD/PMX files used by the 3d movie creation software “MikuMikuDance,” it also features a screenshot function which can save the dancing character image as a PNG file.  Furthermore, it uses Komine Shiro [J], the officially recognized character of the Fukushima prefecture Shirakawa tourist product association, as the standard 3D character.  When you register as a user within the software, you can also download “Yumeno ☆ Akichi” data, which was used in “MOOSTA OMP” together with Komine Shiro.

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iJet, Inc. [J] announced on February 28th that they are allocating third party shares.

iJet is a business offering services such as 3D print output, 3DCG data creation, 3D scanning, and small lot vacuum casting.  They are also known for producing output of “OMOTE 3D SHASHIN KAN” [J], a shop where you can make your own figures by 3D printing.  At this time, due to the increase of capital, their capital stock is 28 million yen, with a reserve capital of 25 million yen.  Due to this increase of capital, they will be strengthening their management base, and continue to strive for improved customer service and business expansion.

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