2010-11
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30% Japanese Sends E-Mail First To Ask If They Can Make Phone Call
Internet research company Ishare reported [J] that new phone call “manner” emerging, especially among young women in Japan. 40.7% of female and 19.9% male answered that they ask if they …
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Startup Weekend Tokyo 2010: Picture Crop Tool Kachop Wins 1st Prize Among Nine Teams
It was Global Entrepreneurship Week between November 14 and 21 when a variety of business development events took place in Tokyo and Kyoto. In time with this opportunity, there was a three-day tech …
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JAFCO Invests $6 Million In Japanese Groupon Clone Luxa
Like everywhere else, the Japanese market is full of Groupon clones. Market share-wise, the “original” Groupon (Groupon Japan) is leading after it acquired one of its local clones earlier …
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Japan's Itochu Invests In Hong Kong And Taiwanese E-Commerce Sites
Major Japanese trading (and Fortune 500) company Itochu is making a foray into the Asian e-commerce space. According to The Nikkei, Itochu made two investments recently, having bought into Hong …
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Rakuten Brings "Super Points" Loyalty Program To Buy.Com
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten, which currently boasts a market cap of US$9.7 billion, has been relatively quiet after having acquired US-based Buy.com earlier this year (for US$250 …
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LTE vs. Extention Of Current Techs: Who Brings Us The World's Fastest Mobile Broadband?
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo announced at their seasonal press conference that it would launch an LTE (long-term evolution) service called Xi[J] (pronounced as …
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Medical Net Communications Goes IPO On Tokyo Stock Exchange
Japan’s tech IPO market has been drying up dramatically in recent months, but there are still some IPOs happening. Today it was announced that Tokyo-based Japan Medical Net Communications, …
