Japan
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Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 4 Million Members
Pixiv, the most popular of Japan’s many social drawing services, announced [ENG] it hit an amazing four million registered users last Saturday (January 28). It took the site, which launched on …
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Twitter Japan Add A Function To Find Friends From Yahoo! Japan Address Book
Twitter Japan official blog announced on January 23 that they added a feature to find friends from your Yahoo! Japan mail address. Twitter Japan supported Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail and Messenger …
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Motto TV: Japan Gets New Video-On-Demand Service
Hulu Japan, actvila, and other existing video content providers are getting competition soon: a total of seven Japanese companies are currently preparing a video-on-demand service for connected TVs …
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Japan Patent Office Gives Up New Patent System Which Already Spent 5.5 Billion Yen
Asahi reported [J] that Japan’s Patent Office(JPO) decided to terminate their patent management system renewal project which began in 2006. They already spent 5.5 billion yen(US$70 million) and …
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Mixi And DeNA Allies In Social Commerce
January 25, two of Japan’s largest social networking service companies, DeNA(who runs Mobage) and Mixi announced their new alliance on social commerce. On the release, it is said that …
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Hatsune Miku's Song Used For Google Chrome Commercial Tops At iTunes Japan Chart
“Tell Your World “, the song which is used for Google Chrome Promotional campaign of livetune feat. Hatsune Mike (初音ミク) tops at iTunes Japan among all categories. iTunes Japan chart at …
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Privacy: How To Get Postal Address From Amazon Wish List
Amazon’s wish list is a list of products that you can publish on Amazon and ask people to purchase and send, a kind of donation feature. You are expected to be anonymous and still receive gifts, …
