Japan
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Japan's No. 1 Social Network Mixi Now Boasts 20 Million Members
Japan’s No. 1 social network Mixi [JP] just announced [JP] its member base surged past 20 million, meaning the site added 1.4 million users since the end of last year [JP] and 2.6 million …
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Google Abolishes Japan Local President. Koichiro Tsujino Resigns This Month
Nikkei reported [J, subscription required, not permitted] that Google Japan President Koichiro Tsujino resigns at the end of this month, April 2010. Also, Google is reported to erase out the local …
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NHN Japan Buys Livedoor By $67 Million
Both NHN Japan and Livedoor confirmed NHN Japan’s purchase Livedoor from Livedoor Holdings. NHN Japan and Livedoor’s press conference starts 6:05 p.m. Japan Standard Time, broadcast also …
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Pankaku Increases Capital By Allocating New Shares To Cyber Agent
Pankaku[J], a tech start-up whose iPhone game app LightBike has recorded the 1st rank in the number of paid app downloading at the U.S. AppStore, announced it had increased capital by approx. …
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Two Twitter-related Services Introduced Last Week
User Local[J], a tech start-up who is well-known for having developed a web-based access statistics tool using heat map visualization, released “Machi-Tsui[J]” (Machi stands for a city or …
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Video Artists To Hold Japan's First Festival Of Movie Clips Filmed With iPhone
Now we can easily capture every frame of every scene at any time at any place with the iPhone. A variety of the iPhone apps allow us to complete high-quality video clips including adding music and …
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March 2010 Japan-IT Links
March news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Napster Japan To End Its Service At The End Of May [Softbank Telecom Sells 1,200 …
