Japan
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Dwango Enters Engineer Hiring Race With OSS Community Grant
Following to the 20 million users social gaming networks Gree and DeNA’s hiring competition with over $20,000 rewards for engineers beginning 4 days ago, Dwango [J] (Asiajin), who has much …
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Augmented Reality App Sekai Camera Now Available On The Web
Japan’s Augmented Reality poster company Tonchidot has brought its hit app Sekai Camera to the web. It’s now the fourth platform the app is available on, following versions for the …
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College Girl Manga Blog On Server Management
Koakuma Joshidaisei no Server Engineer Diary(Little-devil Server Engineer College Girl) is a Japanese blog by a female college student Aico who works as a part-time on server management at Tokyo-based …
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Web-based Translation Start-up myGengo Fundraises USD585,000 From Ten Angel Investors
myGengo, a web-based multilingual human translation service start-up in Japan, announced convertible note fundraising of approximately 50 million yen from ten angel investors including: Felix Miller, …
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Groupon To Buy Majority Stake In Japanese Clone Qpod
Everyone in Japan’s startup scene has been guessing which of the about 20 local clones Chicago-based Groupon would buy for about 3 months now. And today it came to light that the Americans have …
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Gree And DeNA Competition Heats Up: Both Announce Cash Rewards To New Employees
DeNA, who runs Mobage Town, one of Japan’s most successful social networks, sparked a hiring war yesterday to post their new incentive reward [J]. On the announcement, DeNA tells they will pay …
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Yahoo Japan Buys Location-Based Mobile Advertising Company Cirius
Something pretty rare happened today in Japan’s web industry: a big Internet company acquired a smaller one. In this case, Yahoo Japan (the nation’s biggest website) snatched up all …
