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Study: Post-Quake Sales Of Japanese Group-Buying Sites Down 36%
What’s the overall size of Japan’s market for online group-buying sites? Tokyo-based Luxa (which runs one of these sites/more info here) regularly issues reports on the domestic industry …
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Teclosion 2011 Spring: Wondershake Wins The Grand Prix Among 15 Finalists
Design IT[J], a Tokyo-based UI-focused media consultancy also known for previously maintaining TechCrunch’s Japanese edition (its management was switched to AOL earlier this month[J]), held the …
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DigiColle 2010: Akiba's Univ Students Present Their Research Results & Works
Digital Hollywood was founded in 1994 by Dr. Tomoyuki Sugiyama[J] who had worked as a visiting researcher at MIT Media Lab, and later then it became a university that has grown out of a vocational …
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Gourmet Innovation Launches Donation Program For Serving Ramen Meals To Disaster Victims
Many years ago, I watched a TV commercial of UK automaker Rover Company, saying there would be nothing to proudly introduce in UK other than Rover and fish & chips. Similarly, average Japanese …
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9leap: D2C And UEI Launch Program For Young Smartphone Game Creators
Do you know a student in Japan who is under 25 years of age and who can create cool smartphone games? If yes, 9leap, a new program that just launched, might be of interest to you. 9leap is the brain …
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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 …
