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The Nikkei: KDDI To Start Offering The iPad Mini From November
The existence of a smaller version of the iPad hasn’t even been confirmed by Apple yet, but here is something fresh from the rumor mill in Japan: according to a report published in The Nikkei …
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For $12.8 Million: Yahoo Japan Acquires Decopic Creator Community Factory
Acquisitions are relatively rare in Japan’s tech startup scene, but today Yahoo Japan caused a splash when the country’s biggest web company announced it acquired Tokyo-based Community …
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Amazon Japan Mistakenly Teases Kindle Pages, But No Japanese E-Books
Amazon Japan, who has not been able to launch its long-awaited e-book reader/platform Kindle for years, leaked something related with Kindle on its website around September 3, just a couple of days …
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Nico Nico Douga Hits 28 Million Users, Generates US$46 Million In Sales Last Quarter
Nico Nico Douga, Japan’s answer to YouTube, is still growing nicely, five years after launch. Dwango, the Tokyo-based company behind the popular service, released its financial report [PDF] for …
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SoftBank Starts Using The 900MHz "Platinum Band"
There can be no doubt that SoftBank is the mobile carrier with the weakest network among Japan’s big three telcos, following that of NTT Docomo and KDDI. But now there is hope that things will …
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Rakuten Starts Featuring Pinterest On Its Japanese Marketplace And Other Properties
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten (US$15 billion market cap, about 80 million user accounts in Japan) has started featuring Pinterest on some of its biggest websites yesterday. Big R …
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KDDI's Subsidiary Wire And Wireless To Offer Free WiFi At Starbucks, Starting From Tokyo
Wire and Wireless (wi2), a subsidiary of Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier KDDI, announced [J] its new free WiFi program at Starbucks Coffee chain-store in Japan. Free WiFi at cafe? If …
