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Yahoo! Japan launches English version of their auction site
Yahoo! Japan introduced an English version of Yahoo! Japan Auctions on October 10th, 2008. Its target audience is foreign residents in Japan who can communicate in basic Japanese but prefer to use an …
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Japanese No.1 E-Commerce site "Rakuten" started multilingual item search
Rakuten, the largest E-Commerce player in Japan, has started a multilingual item search service in Rakuten Ichiba, the biggest Japanese online shopping mall. Rakuten Ichiba top page[J] / Rakuten …
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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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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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Yahoo! Japan starts LinkedIn like business SNS
Japan’s web giant Yahoo! Japan’s new challenge is a social business networking service, the name is CU. CU is a membership service based on invitation. The top page explains themselves as …
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Mixi gets pre-installed on all SoftBank phones, starting with the Sharp 931SH
It seems that Japan’s biggest SNS Mixi and the country’s third largest cell phone carrier SoftBank are getting closer and closer. Following the announcement of the general partnership in …
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livedoor started "Geocities 2.0"
Japanese portal site livedoor announced today that they started a new free hosting service EDGE co. Lab. Developers/entrepreneurs can get hosted servers from livedoor and run their web service …
