Japan
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NHK's Weather Character Haruchan(@nhk_haruchan) Starts Tweeting
Haruchan (Haru=Spring, chan=casual form of san, honorific title) is a popular personified Spring character on public broadcast TV NHK’s prime time weather news program. She was made by …
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Nifty To Shut Off Podcasting Juice, A Podcasting Portal
Nifty [J], a Fujitsu-affiliated internet service provider/web portal, announced that they are going to close their podcast portal. Podcasting Juice [J] by Nifty is one of the popular podcasting portal …
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DeNA And CyberAgent To Start Joint Smartphone Ads Network For Mobage/Ameba
DeNA announced that CyberAgent and they are to established a new joint venture company at the end of April. The company will form an ads network for smartphone since May. CyberAgent will own 51%, …
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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Donates $120 million In Quake Aid, Live On Ustream
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is known to like to think big, and the announcement he made today is no exception: Son said that he will donate a total of 10 billion yen ($120 million) of his personal …
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Bukupe: Might A Book Curation Site Be Alternative To Skim-Reading?
City dwellers are busy every day. They don’t have much time for reading books. E-books make you possible to enjoy reading without stopping by at bookstores. Skim reading, speed reading, …
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Japan Consumer Affairs Agency Warns Penny Auction Sites
Consumer Affairs Agency, Government of Japan(CAA) [J] made public their administrative order [J, pdf] against 5 Japanese penny auction web services on March 31. Violation against “Keihin Hyouji …
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GMO-VP Launches "F-Commerce" Fund And Invests In Platform Developer
On Friday, GMO Venture Partners[J], an investment arm of Shibuya-based web juggernaut GMO Internet Group, launched a private equity fund specializing in investing in start-ups who are developing …
