Masaru IKEDA
Articles by Masaru IKEDA
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Cybozu Aims At Business-oriented Social Network, And Something Different From Facebook
Cybozu Inc., a Tokyo-based package vendor having developed a web-based groupware intended to Japanese SMEs for more than a decade, introduced their brand new SaaS edition of the groupware last …
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IncubateFund To Hold A Boot Camp For Encouraging Entrepreneurs In Their 20s
IncubateFund[J], an investment team backed by DeNA and it’s known for having invested in Pokelabo and Istpika (both are social app providers), will have a two-day camp for encouraging potential …
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Rakuten Opposes Yahoo Japan-Google Tie-up
As we reported here, Yahoo! Japan is transitioning its search engine platform from what they’ve originally developed to Google’s technology. In opposition to that move, some news sources …
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Cerevo's New Encoder Box No Longer Requires PC For Ustream Livecasting
Tokyo-based Internet-enabled consumer electronics developer Cerevo[J] introduced an encoder box for livecasting on Ustream, and it was started on sale last weekend. The first lot will be shipped in …
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Smartphone Ad-optimizer Nobot Fundraises USD1.3M From JAFCO And Nissay Capital
Tokyo-based smartphone ad-optimizer Nobot announced on Friday they had fundraised approximately USD1.3M from Japan’s largest VC firm JAFCO and Nissay Capital[J] who is an investment arm of …
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Live: Six Japanese Tech Start-ups Present At SF NewTech Japan Night
As Shunichi Arai introduced here last month, San Francisco-based digital consulting agency btrax, Inc. organizes an event featuring six Japanese tech start-ups today. Without being at the venue in San …
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Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up in Akihabara, Tokyo
On Saturday at Ustream Studio Akiba[J], a livecast facility in an Internet cafe in Akihabara, we had a readers meet-up in Tokyo for the first time in approx. 2.5 years. The meet-up started with …
