2011-01
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Say Media To Sell Six Apart Japan And The Brand To Infocom
Six Apart Japan, a 100% subsidiary of Say Media, who bought a blog service company Six Apart (U.S.) in September 2010, announced [J] that the whole stock of the company will be sold from Say Media to …
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Homunculus: The Car Becomes More 'You'
Yoichi Ochiai and Keisuke Toyoshima from Tsukuba University developed a car with facial expression - convey your driving intentions and emotions over the car, to communicate with other drivers and …
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Listagram And Instastream - Two Instagram Mash-ups From Japan
Listagram is an unofficial Instagram related site by Kotaro Chiba, which lists up Instagram photos by specific user. Giving a single URL of the Instagram photo will show the set of photos by the …
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15 New Games: GREE Beefs Up Smartphone Offering
Another day, another GREE-related news item on Asiajin. Today, it’s about GREE’s web site for smartphones for which new games by third-party developers have been added. If you access GREE …
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Tokyo Parking Machine As Seen From Onboard Camera
photo © 2005 shibainu | more info (via: Wylio) Roppongi Hills is a central Tokyo landmark, and is well-known as the preferred office location for many top IT companies in Tokyo. Current tenants …
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For $26 Million: GREE Acquires Mobile Ad Startup Atlantis
M&A-related news are relatively rare in Japan’s startup scene, but today we can report that mobile social gaming juggernaut GREE has acquired Tokyo-based ad exchange service Atlantis for …
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Virtual Economy During Oshogatsu (Japanese New Year) In Ameba Pigg
In Japan, New Year’s Eve and the New Year holidays are the biggest events of the year, and it is similar in virtual worlds. CygerAgent’s virtual world “Ameba Pigg [J]” sold a …
