December 2011 – Page 4

Gree CEO Talks To National Paper Readers By A Full-Page Ad

December 8 morning, Japanese major newspapers like Yomiuri, Asahi and Nikkei, sum of the number of their print will be around 20 million issues every morning, had a full-page ad almost only with text, which is by Gree CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka. http://twitpic.com/7pfyvq The text is also publicized on Gree’s company page [J]. It has about… Continue reading Gree CEO Talks To National Paper Readers By A Full-Page Ad

AKB48 Now On Google+ – Google’s Marketing Challenge

Japan’s popular girls idol corps AKB48 announces with Google that all of its members opened Google+ page today December 8. Google Japan cooperates to set up a special page you can browse all, or by AKB48 and its sister-groups. [Update] Nikkei reports [J] that this is a collaboration project between AKB48 and U.S. Google. According… Continue reading AKB48 Now On Google+ – Google’s Marketing Challenge

Young American Serial Entrepreneur Faces Harsh Criticism Over Free-By-Ads WiFi Service Privacy Issue

Kristopher Tate is an American-born serial entrepreneur who had appeared many times on TechCrunch by his photo-sharing start up Zooomr founded at his age of 17. TechCrunch’s database had not tracked him later but he migrated to Tokyo with Zooomr with seeing more possibility in Japan and Japanese web in 2007, has been actively developing… Continue reading Young American Serial Entrepreneur Faces Harsh Criticism Over Free-By-Ads WiFi Service Privacy Issue

3-Minutes Video Tutorial Site For Programming Learners "Dotinstall" Launches

Two popular Japanese bloggers, @taguchi[J] and @fkoji[J], launched new video tutorial site called dotinstall[J], which is aimed at ultra-beginner of programming. The site currently provides about 300 video tutorials, ranging from HTML basics to Creating Concentration game using Javascript, all of which last just about 3 minutes long. All the videos are recorded in Japanese… Continue reading 3-Minutes Video Tutorial Site For Programming Learners "Dotinstall" Launches

Japan’s Web News Week 48

This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Twitter Japan-Mixi alliance article was on Techmeme. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Domino Pizza’s Too Categorized Coupons – people with glasses, in single, with pig tails, name is Maeda, at section chief, parrot-owner, second-grade in junior… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 48

Japan Gets Its Own YouTube Movie Rental Service

So far, only YouTube users from Canada, the US and (since October) the UK were able to rent movies, but yesterday, Japan has finally been added to the list, too (the country is the second biggest market for movies in the world). Youtube users in Japan can initially stream content from a total of five… Continue reading Japan Gets Its Own YouTube Movie Rental Service

DeNA Baseball Team Officially Approved

In the morning today December 1, Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB)’s temporary executive committee approved it, then afternoon, owners meeting also approved the deal that the original owner of Yokohama Bay Stars TBS sells the team to DeNA, an IT company who runs a social game networking service Mobage, Sports Nippon reported [J]. NHK reported [J] that… Continue reading DeNA Baseball Team Officially Approved

NTT Docomo Denied The Rumored LTE iPad/iPhone Plan

Nikkei BP’s scoop [J] on Docomo agreeing with Apple to sell the next generation iPad/iPhone in 2012 (Mac Rumors, Macgasm and many other reported) was officially denied by NTT Docomo [J]. Nikkei BP had reported KDDI joining iPhone5 sales, which was mostly correct without iPhone’s version, and that time, KDDI au also denied the story… Continue reading NTT Docomo Denied The Rumored LTE iPad/iPhone Plan