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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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Yahoo! Box: Yahoo! Japan's Online Storage Service Tops One Million Users
As the country’s biggest website, Yahoo Japan is constantly rolling out new products like mobile apps, social networking services or games. Some of them fail, and some of them turn out to be …
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C.A. Mobile Releases Smartphone Social Commerce Platform "SCP"
C.A. Mobile [J] has released the smartphone social commerce platform “SCP.” They will proceed by the introduction of their cell phone site “ONE☆FESTA.” “SCP” is a corporate electronic commerce site …
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The First Top-Pro-vs-Computer Shogi(Japanese Chess) Match Was Won By Computer
The first top professional player vs computer Shogi(Wikipedia) match Dennousen (Battle of Cyber-King) was held at Shogi Kaikan (Japan Shogi Association building), Tokyo January 14, 2012. Kunio …
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Tabelog, Japan's Yelp Reportedly Tainted By Undercover Positive Review Agents
A popular consumer restaurant review site Tabelog [J], who has been competing the top position of restaurant listing site against Gurunavi with user-generating-contents power, admitted on January 4 …
