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Social Game Vendor Klab Goes IPO On TSE Mothers
KLab [J], a social game vendor announced [J] that they will be listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers (Tosho Mothers) planned on September 27, 2011. The company was originally established as an …
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Namco Bandai And DeNA Jointly Established Social Game Company For Global Market
Namco Bandai, who was a merged company of video game company Namco and toy company Bandai in 2005, announced a new step on social game development with one of the world’s most successful social …
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KDDI au Lets Subscribers Find Facebook Friends Through Cell Phone Mail History
Back in May, Japan’s second largest mobile carrier KDDI au struck a deal with Facebook under which the social network would be featured prominently on future smartphones, for example in the …
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USB Buddism Sutra Chanting Tablet
Okyo (“Buddhist sutra” in Japanese) is a new gadget for Japanese Buddhists. Ihai (Spiritual Tablet)-shaped this portable USB gadget will chant sutra everywhere without calling monks. The …
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Mig33 Launches Developer Program, Many Asian Gaming Apps To Come Out In Japan
As we reported here on Asiajin, Japan’s largest mobile gaming company Gree[J] partnered with mig33, a Singapore-born and currently US-based social network which has become the most popular in …
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Japanese Entrepreneurs: Get The Last Spot In The "Tofu Project" To Go To America
Are you a Japan-based entrepreneur interested in taking part in a 7-day design thinking and innovation boot camp that will take place in October in California? Then you should head over to the …
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Japan's Biggest Location-Based Game Colopl Hits 2 Million Users
In 2005, long before Foursquare and other LBS became available in the US and elsewhere, cell phone users in Japan were able to play a GPS game called “Coloni-na Seikatsu Plus” (Colony …
