2012-01
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Takeo-city To Force All Employees To Register And Work On Facebook
Takeo city, in Saga prefecture in Kyushu island, has been known by its net-savvy mayor Keisuke Hiwatashi. As a mayor, he switched the city website onto Facebook page, which gets 50 times more page …
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DeNA Sues Back To Gree And Its CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka
DeNA, who runs Mobage, announced today [J] that it instituted legal action to demand Gree and its CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka an apology and compensation for the loss caused by Gree’s press release …
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Video: Girl Band JKT48 (AKB48's Sister Band) Promoting Rakuten In Indonesia
JKT48, the Indonesian sister band of ultra-popular Japanese girl group AKB48 (Asiajin), is promoting Rakuten Belanja Online, Rakuten’s joint venture with Jakarta-based media powerhouse PT …
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Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 4 Million Members
Pixiv, the most popular of Japan’s many social drawing services, announced [ENG] it hit an amazing four million registered users last Saturday (January 28). It took the site, which launched on …
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Japan's Web News Week 4
This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Navit Allegedly Manipulates Reviews On @Cosme …
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Twitter Japan Add A Function To Find Friends From Yahoo! Japan Address Book
Twitter Japan official blog announced on January 23 that they added a feature to find friends from your Yahoo! Japan mail address. Twitter Japan supported Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail and Messenger …
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App For Sliding On Bald Mens' Heads: "Hage-mu" Reaches 400,000 Downloads
Downloads of “Hage-mu” (Bald Game in English version, comes from “hage(bald)” and “game”), an iPhone application for gliding on the bald heads of guys from around the world …
