2010-11
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Apple Partners With Dentsu To Boost Smartphone Ad Business In Japan
The world’s largest ad agency Dentsu announced it had partnered with Apple for the sales of smartphone ad network iAd in Japan. Dentsu will start the sales in early 2011, and their subsidiary …
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Idol Event In Ameba Pigg Gathers 15,000 Users Online
An idol unit “Team Pigg Mint” held a gig in Japanese virtual world “Ameba Pigg” [J] on November 3rd. Team Pigg Mint is an unit selected from members of popular girls group …
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Mixi Unveils SocialPhone For Softbank's Androids
Mixi, one of Japan’s biggest social networking services, which is the most similar with Facebook among three, announced their new smartphone application plan with the third largest cellphone …
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Japanese Social Network Update With Quarterly Reports
The ranking by registered users keeps the same. Or, maybe DeNA is passing Mixi by population as Mixi’s number has October adding included. Gree: 22.46 million (at 2010-09-30, by 1Q report [pdf, …
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500,000 People Needed To Get The Deal; Pompare Is Selling A Challenging Coupon
Groupon Japan’s Rival, Ponpare[J] has started to sell a special coupon today. You can get Häagen-Dazs ice cream ticket for 2 mini cups by paying only 100 yen ( about a dollar and quarter). This …
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Will Google, Instead Of Apple, Buy Sony?
At the end of last month a rumors had spread that Apple would buy Sony and Sony stocks had moved up. If Apple buy Sony we might be able to see Sony Pictures’ movies on iTunes, more games on …
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Tokyo's P2P Lending Service ExCo Fundraises From Dave McClure's 500 Startups
Tokyo-based P2P(peer-to-peer) lending service company Exchange Corporation (in short, ExCo) announced today that they had fundraised several hundred thousand US dollars - exact number not disclosed - …
