2012-02
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Istyle(@cosme) Goes IPO On TSE Mothers
(@cosme’s tag line on the logo is “site of everyone’s word of mouth”) Istyle [J], who runs Japan’s top cosmetic products review site @Cosme, announced [J] on February 3, …
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Japan's Web News Week 5
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. Docomo Announces To Take Over Online Grocery …
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Many Hatsune Miku Videos Being Removed From YouTube By Invalid Copyright Report
Popular human voice synthesizer Vocaloid Hatsune Miku are getting known oversea as a Japanese web phenomenon. Like the global company Google picked it up as a “singer” for Chrome promotion …
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CyberAgent Establishes Subsidiary Company For iPhone Camera App "My365"
CyberAgent [J] has announced that they will transfer their iPhone camera social network app “My365” over to Sirok, a subsidiary company they set up for developing smartphone applications. From now on …
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Robot Avatar Music Sharing Service "Beatrobo"
I tried out the music service “Beatrobo,” where you create a robot avatar and listen to the same music (YouTube videos) with your friends and introduce music to each other. The avatar on the right has …
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DMM Coming Out With Social Games, Including Some 18+
DMM.com [J], who offer mail order and DVD rentals as well as video distribution, are currently testing out offering social games for cell phones. The service page is here. [J] At the moment, titles …
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Nobu-nyaga's Ambition Steps Into Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau
Koei Tecmo [J] has made a contract with Taiwan’s Cayenne Entertainment Tchnology and have announced that they will develop their currently offered social game “Nobu-nyaga’s Ambition” for Yahoo! …
