Japan
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Top 20 of Japan's most valuable web companies
The following list shows an up-to-date list of Japan’s most valuable web companies by market capitalization. It’s interesting to see 6 of them are large-cap (with 2 being very close). But …
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Web-sticky service Lino now available in three languages: Japanese, English and (new) Chinese
Lino, a web based sticky note service competing with Postica, MyStickies and most notably Slingpage (and others) is a rare beast among Japanese web companies: It’s very international. The …
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Digital Garage gives 30% of Technorati Japan to Technorati US
Technorati Japan, established by Digital Garage(DG) in January 2005, is now shared with Technorati, Inc.. DG announced that they sold issued new shares which becomes 30% of the Technorati Japan …
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Mixi starts "Celebrity Account"
Japan’s largest social network Mixi started a specialized user accounts limited for TV-talents/musicians on July 28th 2008. Mixi has a system limitation on your number of friends “Mai …
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Q&A: What is the Japanese equivalent of [Western web service]?
Here is a list of where Japanese users usually go on the web when they want to connect with their friends, buy something or get information. I feature “made-in-Japan” sites and software …
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Nico Nico Douga goes global (almost)
The once Japanese-only and super-successful video platform Nico Nico Douga goes international. They announced Friday on the company blog that they developed a German and Spanish version of their …
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Cyber-Maid Augmented Reality
Geisha Tokyo Entertainment Inc. announced a new entertainment software title using augmented reality technology named “Dennoh Figure ARis"(Cyber Figure Alice) which will be on sale this …
