Masaru IKEDA
Articles by Masaru IKEDA
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Uniqlo Starts Online Sales in Mainland China
Japan-based casual clothing retailer First Retailing(its brandname, Uniqlo) started its online sales in Mainland China[C], in tie-up with Taobao[C]. Taobao is China’s largest online shopping …
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Ex-school Sites Are On Sale For The First Time In Japan's Internet Auction History
A rural town located on the south coast of Hokkaido Island, Niikappu, put four of the town’s unused municipal elementary school sites on sale on Yahoo Auction[J]. The sites consist of school …
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Tezuka Manga Works Come To Your Palm Every Week
Tokyo-based mobile app developer Yappa started distributing the manga works of Tezuka Osamu, with a content distribution technology that the company also used to develop the Sankei Newspaper’s …
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The RSS-based Service Developer Adds A Twitter-like Business Solution To Line-up
The Tokyo-based tech venture company Modiphi[J] started a twitter-like micro blog service for enterprise use[J] today. The company introduced the same series for consumer use[J] last month, which …
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S. Korea's YouTube Disabled Video Uploading Due To The New Act For Preventing Cybercrimes
In South Korea, where many crimes and suicide cases have been caused by slanderous messages posted on social websites, the country’s telecommunication authority has deployed an act which …
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Your Cellphone Helps Inducing A Coincidental Meet To Dating
The Tokyo-based mobile app start-up YouMind[J] launched last Friday the free mobile service called Hitomebo[J], which allows you to record where and when you have seen cute girls or handsome boys and …
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Two Broadband Video Streaming Sites To Be Merged To Survive
Yahoo Japan[J] announced Tuesday it would buy 51% stake in Gyao[J] which is the free broadband video streaming service and has been wholly owned by Japan’s largest cable music broadcaster USEN. …
