Japan
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Twitter Japan Releases Email Notification
Twitter Japan is finally getting up to speed on how people communicate with their mobile phones in Japan. Contrary to what people think, SMS does exist in Japan. It’s just not used. It never …
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Social Apps Provider Istpika Gets $2.5 Million From DeNA-Backed IncubateFund
I wonder in what shape the Japanese venture capital industry (and entrepreneur scene) would be without social games. Yesterday, TechCrunch Japan reported about Tokyo-based social apps provider gumi …
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NHK Website Celebrates 15th Anniversary With Biz Stone And Jun Murai Interviews
NHK Online, Japan’s public broadcasting organization makes a special website about its 15 years internet activities. The NHK Online History, a Flash contents, is quite interesting as it covers …
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Will DeNA Crack The Japanese Code For International Expansion?
DeNA, the company behind one of the big three social networking sites in Japan, Mobage-Town (20m users in Japan), cannot be clearer on its current strategy. It’s called international expansion. …
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Facebook Sudden Surge In Japan By Notable Web Users
Japan is known as one of the most difficult countries for Facebook. However, there has been sudden Facebook buzz happening in Japanese websphere now for about a week. Tokyo-based social media …
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New Location-Based Service: Mixi Sees 2 Million "Check Ins” In First Month
Mixi, Japan’s Facebook, last month introduced a new function, “Check-In”. As the name suggests, Check-In works much like Facebook Places does: press the “Check In” button on Mixi …
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Sharp Ties Up With Japan's Largest Video Rental Chain For Content Distribution To Android Tablets
Galapagos, the name of the South American islands where English naturalist Charles Darwin discovered rare species of creatures, is used as an adjective to describe the isolation of Japanese mobile …
