Japan
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Livedoor Starts Video Search Service
Livedoor started a video search service[J] on its portal, in association with Tokyo-based tech-venture Accessport Inc. Livedoor adopted Accessport’s video search engine called …
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Jason Calacanis meets Japanese Bloggers in Tokyo
Jason Calacanis, a big name in Silicon Valley (founder of Weblogs and Mahalo, legendary blogger,VC etc.) visited Japan last week for the first time. We had dinner with him and with other famous …
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Summary of Gree's financial statements
Yoshikazu Tanaka founded Gree (JP) in 2004. At first, Gree’s SNS services were aimed at PC users, but Mixi had greater success in the PC market. So, Gree partnered with mobile phone operator …
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Breaking News: Gree goes IPO
Gree Inc. Japanese Social Network Service (SNS) company which has been chasing Mixi in PC web, and Mobage-Town/DeNA in mobile web, seems to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers (Tosho …
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Japan is going to ban online non-prescription drug sales
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has announced a plan to ban online sales of non-prescription drugs. The MHLW is planning to issue an Ordinance of the Ministry to ban online …
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pixiv and Square-Enix are developing 3D CGM service
Square Enix and pixiv started the participation recruitment of “Party Castle”, a community site for creators, in illustration contribution site “pixiv” on 6th November. Square …
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Voodoo LAN cable sold in $1070
What I’d like to show you today is audio LAN cable called “BLACK MAGIC”. It will be out soon on Nov. 15th on Zigsow, which is an online-mall with users-review community. Its price …
