Early part of March news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- CyberAgent To Start iPhone Social Game Platform GameWave For North America And Global
- Full-flat Office Chair Enables You To Stay Even For A Week At Office
- Recruit Pompare Catching Up Groupon Japan In February
- iAppli Advence Award – 8 Docomo Feature Phone Apps
- 77% Of Japanese Interested In Smartphone Are Thinking Androids – a bit dubious reserach though
- Food Photo To Calory Recording Service via Idea*idea
- Yahoo! Chiebukuro Releases API
- Sellaband Launches Japanese version
- [Reuter] Yahoo closes in on Yahoo Japan deal [En] and [Ja]
- Studylog – Sharing Your Self-Study Records
- Onkyo Releases Audio Player Which Supports radiko.jp, a radio IP simulcast service.
- Sharee China launches deals of the day service for Chinese visitors to enable to be paid with Union Pay card.
- Panasonic to suspend the development of their new game device targeting the North American market.
- Shogakkan introduces the calendar iPhone app with a photo collection of woman TV anchors/reporters.
- NTV introduces the iPhone app including 3,000 recipes introduced on their program “Kewpie 3-min cooking”.
- In mid-March, three student nurses to tour the worst hotels in Singapore, London and NYC. (produced by TripAdvisor Japan).
- Groupon launches its Chinese subsidiary as GaoPeng.com
- Japanese Brands Facebook Page Fans Ranking
- Twitter Japan Is Hiring Communications Manager
- Oracle Japan’s Company Dog Wendy Visits Fujitsu
- Netprice-backed Cloudy Study launches a self-learning management tool called Studylog.
- Sharp Exntends Its E-Book Reader Galapoagos Onto Their Million Of Android. It’s like Kindle for Android, but only for Sharp’s Android
- Amazon Finally Opens Tokyo Data Center For Amazon Web Services
- Japanese iPhone Game Urges Users To Set 5 Star On Review. This game has “under construction” part and clicking it takes you to the review page on iTune App Store
- Half Of Kayac’s Mobile App Nakamap Download Is From Kuwait
- Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Campain Page Suspended via Togetter
- Shogakkan’s App DIME to host the first smartphone app award.
- Moe Taxi In Hamamatsu via Slashdot Japan
- Ekitan’s IPO Gets Almost Double Price On Its First Day
- Kyoto Univ Exam Cheater Arrested
- Drastic Web Design Featuring Wire Frame As Is By LDP’s Miyagi Branch via @gamme – It was all in single image at first. Now they are closing to regular web design.
- Nielsen Reports Zozotown’s TVCM And Yahoo! Japan Alliance Increases Traffic Remarkably
- Groupon Japan Reportedly To Post 50% Off Cake Coupon Without Shop’s Consent
- MMD Labo’s Smartphone Resarch For Female
- Groupon Japan Releases Groupon Promise – To Recover Their Fallen Reputations via release
- EA Launches Its First Mobile Social Game In Japan On Gree
- Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Promotion Page Resumed. And book around their web promotion is published
- OKWave Says That They Would Have RemovedKyoto Univ Exam Cheater. They mean, different from Yahoo!
- Contactless iPhone battery charger.
- Human Shaped Cellphone Elfoid via Engadget Japanese
- Ameba Pigg’s Stop Supporting Flash 9 Makes Thousands Users Upset via ITMedia
- Internet Slangs -Part Ⅱ- [En]
- iPhone app promoting Suntory Beer. via @Dominic
- Kyoto Univ Cheater Typed His Questions By His Left Hand On Regular Cellphone
- 30min releases the iPhone app specializing in sharing ramen experience.
- Playback tweets by your followers. Pixiv Redrum Smiles releases Retime.me
- Programming Language Personified – Self-publishing Book
- Quora-like Q&A service called QAREAL. It has to be signed up with real names. Another Quora-like, Another one (not opened yet)
- Ecofon-Coca Cola trouble
- Weekly Diamond Begins To Release Its Feature Articles As iPhone Apps. The first one is on Akihabara, 450 yen
- Japanese Game For Visiting Foreigners – Under Development [En]
- Web Meme El Shadai To Be Comicalized
- JR Develops Train Sheet On Which You Cannot Open Legs Wide
- TrendMicro’s Unlimited Storage Service Stops To Accept New Users After 3 Month
- Yahoo! Japan Opens iPhone/iPad App Search
- Hatsune Miku Image With A Lots Of Hatsune Miku Illustrations
- SEO Service Ginzametrics Backed By YCombinator Moves And Hires In Tokyo [En] via Hacker News
- Tumblr Begins Japanese Beta
- Pompare Ad Lady Photos on Naver Matome
- Pompare Ad Parody Using The Same Lady From Photo Stock Service
- Asian EC Service Research By Aun Consulting
- Sony PlayStation3’s Campaign Site Is So Japanese. Intentionally exaggerating how Japanese web design is, I guess
- Social Network Users Research
- Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome Featured On Google Street View [En]. Google Japan blog [J]
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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