2011-02
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Uniqlo Launches FB-Integrated Photo Community For Sharing Dress Experience
Fast Retailing, also known as its brand name of Uniqlo, launched a Facebook integrated photo sharing community called Uniqlooks (available in seven languages) last Thursday. It allows users to upload …
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Cerevo Fundraises USD3M From Three Japanese Venture Funds
Tokyo-based Internet-enabled consumer electronics developer Cerevo[J], who is known for having introduced a series of Ustream encoder products for streamcasters, fundraised approximately USD3M …
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Radiohead's Japanese Tweet Gathers Crowd At Shibuya Crossing
At 17th night, British band Radiohead’s official Twitter account tweeted “in Japanese” just with, 渋谷 ハチ公広場 金曜日 １８時５９分 “Shibuya Hachiko-square, Friday 18:59” # The tweet …
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NHN Plans To Flood Japan With Smartphone Games
NHN Japan, the local arm of South Korean web giant NHN and operator of online gaming portal Hangame, is planning to seriously step up game development for smartphones, especially on Android. …
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Which Foreign Startups Are Doing Well In Japan "Under The Radar"?
It’s no secret that in recent years, quite a few foreign (mostly American) web brands have made it big in Japan: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon etc. But what about startups that …
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Japan Gets "How To Use Instagram" Book
The Japanese love books (the book market over here is worth $23 billion annually) and cool mobile apps, for example the popular photo sharing app Instagram. Combine these two phenomena and you get a …
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BeeTV: Docomo's Mobile TV Service Hits 1.5 Million User Mark
Mobile TV is often cited as being a dream of the future in most markets, but it has been around in Japan, the world’s most advanced mobile nation, for years. The majority of the 100+ handsets …
