Continued from (Part 1). Middle part of January news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 3)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- Weekly Diamond To Feature Facebook, Run The Same Icon Campaign As Their Twitter Featuring Issue Last January
- Piku Issues Their Rule On Flash Coupon Business – The first Groupon clone company is trying to shake off the bad reputation caused by Groupon Japan.
- Cerevo CEO photo on MSNBC CES report [En]
- 2Dfacto – Docomo And DNP’s New eBook Service Launches on 12th
- Tsunami Got 42 mil Yen Investment – Cabawars Company
- Kingjim Suggests Memopads And iPhone App To Digitize Your Handwriting Memo via ITMedia
- Mixi Apologizes 0.14% Of New Year’s Greeting Cards They Had Soled Were Undelivered By Software Glitch
- Westin Hotel Apologizes On Guests Privacy Leak Over Twitter
- Webplus to set up a fund to invest in IT industry in Fukuoka.
- Mimiuchi‘s [En]parody service – Shitauchi: nofities you when there are mutual hater with you
- Affiliate Blogger Arrested By Pointing Non-Related Family As A Serial Raper-Murderer’s Home
- CyberAgent Ventures To Offer An Incubation Office At Central Tokyo
- Ad distribution optimizer Kauli partners with Septeni.
- Brasyna to launch a social commerce platform for overseas users.
- NTT DoCoMo launches real-time pollen spread updates based on data from sensors at cellphone base stations.
- Rakuten Had Silently Started Social News Site Last Month via @kensuu. Rakuten already has Infoseek Min’nano News(people’s news)
- Japanese Local Newspaper Asks Applicants For Otaku Experts Post To Critique Anime Character Design
- Japanese startup Toeny starts e-book market of self-published comic book on February 4. Toeny
- Amazon Japan To Add Two Distribution Centres In Aichi And Miyagi
- Bath Stretch Training DVD With Anime Girls Runs Free Public Bath Campaign Only For Male Fans. I cannot understand what they think
- 2-Chanellers Tracking Down A Hotel Staff Who Tweeted Celebrities Privacy Explained
- 40% Of Japanese Social Media Users Think Facebook Will Catch On In 2011, CyberBuzz Research. 1/3 Knows “The Social Network” Movie, 1/2 Says They May Watch
- Another Groupon Trouble – A Restaurant Says Tables Are Full For The Next 6 Months Until The Coupon Deadline
- Kinect Controlling Real Humanoid Robot by V-Sido
- Tosho Printing starts e-book sales that may give you discount in accordance with the number of retweets. – http://bookoupon.jp/
- Naver Runs Whole-train Ads On Yamanote-Line For Its Microblog Naver Cafe
- plastic food sample of chocolates decorated on an iPhone cover.
- Kakaku.com Research Reports 29.3% Of Japanese Now Own Smartphone
- Waseda Univ. Student Yefeng Liu Is Developing Mechanical-Turk Style Travel Helper For Foreigners Visiting Japan
- 2-Channelers Cyberbullying On Domino’s Pizza Hansome Deliveryman Contest
- Twitter’s CJK Search Engineer Hiring Page Was Removed – maybe they found the right staff?
- Coca Colas Super Vending Machine campaign [En]
- CyberAgent’s subsidiary CA mobile released Giolocation SNS “ally”
- QR Code Generator Embeds Your Twitter Icon In It [En]
- Matomeno Interior Launches An English Version [En] via Ginkgo Telegraph [En]
- Konami’s Another Mobile Virtual Dating Game Lining Up 100 Girls
- A New iPhone Pacman Game To Feed Tweets
- NTT DoCoMo To Launch A Cloud-Based Groupware Service For Enterprise Smartphone Users
- Tonchi Dot’s New Service Domo
- Mixi Coworks With KDDI To Check User’s Age, Gree Announces The Same Age Confirmation Service. KDDI side release. DeNA will follow – Mixi’s release includes info on their monitoring team location and size
- Brandomo – a Japanese Brand4friends competitor via Tsuhan Shimbun
- Campaign from realtor Homes features an interactive Youtube movie where you move around in three dimensional space
- Next (The Homes Company) Bought Littel, A Technology Startup From The Univ. Of Tokyo
- Mobage Town And Yahoo! Mobage Now Can Be Paid From Online Banks
- A NicoNico Video satirizing the osechi case with Hatsune Miku’s vocal.
If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.
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