Japan
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Rakuten Starts Featuring Pinterest On Its Japanese Marketplace And Other Properties
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten (US$15 billion market cap, about 80 million user accounts in Japan) has started featuring Pinterest on some of its biggest websites yesterday. Big R …
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Rakuten's Kobo TV Commercial
An official video explaining Kobo Touch’s feature for Japanese market http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUZt4FHiHo
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Rakuten Announced Kobo Touch For Japan, Priced 7980 Yen(US$99)
Rakuten is having a press conference now, just announced that they release Kobo Touch e-book reader for Japanese market, with a price 7,980 yen ($US 99). Rakuten, and its e-commerce/e-book rival …
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KDDI's Subsidiary Wire And Wireless To Offer Free WiFi At Starbucks, Starting From Tokyo
Wire and Wireless (wi2), a subsidiary of Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier KDDI, announced [J] its new free WiFi program at Starbucks Coffee chain-store in Japan. Free WiFi at cafe? If …
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Anonymous Hackers Personified As A Clumsy Girl On Japanese Web
Anonymous, a hacker group known by several internet protest attacks against the recently passed Japanese anti-copyright bill which penalized music downloaders, who are being reported to be attacking …
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Rakuten Launches Teaser Site For Kobo e-Book Reader In Japan
Some time on the exact same day when Amazon Japan informed its customers Kindle coming to Japan market, Rakuten, the nation’s largest e-mall platform, is turned out to launch an information site …
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Amazon Japan Preannounces Kindle Coming "Soon"
Amazon Japan’s top page is showing a new text banner that says its e-book reader Kindle will be sold in Japan soon, today on June 26. The time it was displayed seemed around 15:15, 30 minutes …
