2012-02
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Japan's Web News Week 6
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. Toshiba Blu-ray Recorder Stops By …
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Report: Amazon To Bring Kindle To Japan In April
Business daily The Nikkei says it learned that Amazon Japan, the country’s second-biggest e-commerce company, is planning to finally offer its e-book reader Kindle to Japanese customers. …
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Mangajet Makes Your Tweet Into A Comic-style Illustration
Mangajet [J] is a new Japanese service which let you make a Japanese manga-comic style illustration with provided characters, background images, baloons with your text. The generated comic strip can …
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D2 Communications Acquires 0.9% Stake In Tokyo-Based Ubiqituous Entertainment
Japan’s largest mobile marketing and advertising firm, D2 Communications (D2C), has acquired a 0.9% stake in Tokyo-based Ubiqituous Entertainment (UEI). D2C acquired a total of 400 UEI shares - …
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Let's Get a Foursquare Limited Tokyo Badge!
The smartphone location sharing service Foursquare has added the “Sakura Badge,” limited to the Tokyo area. This is the first appearance of a limited badge from Foursquare in Japan. The conditions …
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Not Only Tokyo - Twitter Japan Adds 6 More Japanese Cities On Trending Topics
Twitter added more choices of cities on its trending keywords in Japan on February 2. There were only all-Japan and Tokyo rankings before. 6 cities, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Sendai …
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e-Money Service Edy Rebrands Itself As Rakuten Edy
BitWallet, who runs one of Japan’s most successful e-money service Edy since 2011, who joined the Japan’s largest e-mall group Rakuten in January 2010, 2 years ago, announced [J] that the …
