Masaru IKEDA
Articles by Masaru IKEDA
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MCF Announces This Year’s Award-Winning Mobile Projects (2/2)
Continued from the previous post. -——— Excellent Award (Mobile Solution Category) Won by McDonalds Japan[J] and the JV, a McDonalds’ joint venture with NTT DoCoMo, with their …
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MCF Announces This Year's Award-Winning Mobile Projects (1/2)
Last Friday, Mobile content forum (MCF)[J], a consortium of many Japanese mobile device developers and mobile app developers, announced this year’s award[J] winning projects, which were chosen …
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Japan's Best-known Midnight Radio Program Goes Mobile
Most Japanese, who are younger than 40 years old, would have listened to this program. “Allnight Nippon[J]”, which is aired live every midnight on Nippon Broadcasting System(NBS)[J] and …
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Startup Showdown: Two Business Contests Announce Finalists
A couple of tech-oriented business contests announced the finalists on Friday. At first, Tokyo-based VC firm ngi Group and online game developer Aeria[J] jointly held the 1st edition of business …
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Smart.fm Fundraises USD3.37M From NTT
Japanese telecom giant NTT and Cerego Japan, an owner of a UGC-based social learning site Smart.fm(previously known as iKnow!), announced both had reached the agreement of the partnership in boosting …
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Two Ventures Jointly Introduce E-Publishing Business Targeting Android Users
Probably this move must prepare for the market deployment of a brand new Android phone from NTT DoCoMo[J], which is scheduled to start tomorrow, Celsys, a Shinjuku-based developer of e-book online …
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Ad Agency Giant Lets Publishers Digitize Their Business, Now More Than Ever
Dentsu, the world’s largest ad agency, announced today it would join forces with Yappa, an iPhone/iPod software developer which is strong in developing e-publication online reader, and launch a …
