Europe
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Mixi Partners With German Social Network VZ
Mixi, one of Japan’s largest social networks and a direct competitor to Facebook, announced [J] a new alliance on January 20 with German company Vznet Netzwerke. Mixi says that both companies …
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Rakuten Subsidizes French No.1 E-Commerce Company PriceMinister
Rakuten has just announced [J, pdf] that they bought 100% of French E-commerce company PriceMinister S.A. The purchase is planned to done in July 2010 for 200 million Euro (22.5 billion yen). Rakuten …
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Flipnote Hatena Strikes Back To USA, Plus Europe Assisted By Nintendo Fame
Hatena, known by a million geekiest loyal users and the most popular social bookmarks service in Japanese [J], announced that their joint project with console game giant Nintendo “Flipnote …

