2011-01
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Samurai Incubate Launches 2nd Fund To Invest In 10 New Tech Start-ups
Samurai Incubate, a Tokyo-based seed accelerator aiming to bring up many Japanese tech start-ups, announced today the launch of its second fund which is worth 62 millon yen (=USD755,000). With its …
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Online Train Timetable Service Ekitan Goes IPO
An online train timetable service that goes IPO? It may sound ludicrous to people living outside Japan, but Tokyo-based Ekitan is doing exactly that. The company will be listed at the Mothers Market …
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12 Tech Start-ups Present At NICT's Annual Business Plan Contest
(Source: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Earlier this week, NICT, an ICT arm of Japan’s telecommunication authority, held the award-presenting ceremony …
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Kinect Dragonball - Blast Your Kamehameha!
The guy who created Kinect Ultra Seven has released his new experiment with wider-known energy wave, Kamehameha from Dragonball.
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Nifty Uses Its Cloud To Accelerate Social Game App Business In SE Asia
Nifty, a Fujitsu subsidiary and Japan’s 4th largest ISP, announced last week that it would use their own cloud facility and encourage Japanese social game app developers to deliver their …
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Japan's Mobile Social Gaming Giant GREE Partners With China's Tencent (QQ)
Big news from Asia’s social gaming world today: Tokyo-based mobile social games juggernaut GREE ($3 billion market cap) just announced it will tie up with China’s biggest web company …
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For Social App Development: Mixi And CyberAgent Launch Joint Venture
Japan’s social apps boom isn’t ending: Today, two of the country’s biggest web companies, namely Mixi and CyberAgent, announced they will launch a joint venture to produce social …
