Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Mixi Appoints A New President. CEO Kasahara To Be A Chairman
Mixi, a Japanese local social networking service competing against Facebook, announced today [J] that the founder, president and the largest stockholder Kenji Kasahara is to hand over the presidency …
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Japanese Government Give Up Original Copyright License, To Support Creative Commons
According to IT Media [J], Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs(ACA, Bunka-chou) reportedly expressed at a symposium that they had given up their original public copyright license CLIP, which …
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Cookpad Switches To Ruby Version 2.0
Cookpad Engineers’ Blog announced [J] today that their web-service has migrated to Ruby 2.0.0-p0, the latest version of Ruby. That Japan’s (and probably the world’s) largest recipe …
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Nisshin Cup Noodle's New TVCM Cynical About (Presumably) Rakuten
Rakuten’s Englishnization has been causing wide repercussions among Japanese business people. Nisshin’s new commercial film “Survive! Globalization” depicts a Japanese company …
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Japanese Restaurant Review Service Tabelog Opens English/New York Version
Popular restaurant review site Tabelog by Kakaku.com launched English site for New York City on March 28. US version tabelog has en accent mark on ’e’, under .us domain. Its design is …
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Mixi Adds Facebook-like Poke With Comic Fonts Messages
Mixi added a new feature “Mixi Hello!” on March 25. With it, users can send pre-set messages in comic style to your friends, by 1-click without writing any letter. The pre-set messages …
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Takafumi Horie, ex-Livedoor CEO Released On Parole
Horie himself announced on his Twitter account on 10:08 a.m. today March 27 (Japan Standard Time). https://twitter.com/takapon_jp/status/316718221917028354 According to the tweet, he was release …
