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Japan Gets "How To Use Instagram" Book
The Japanese love books (the book market over here is worth $23 billion annually) and cool mobile apps, for example the popular photo sharing app Instagram. Combine these two phenomena and you get a …
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KDDI Agrees To Assist Foursquare's Promotion And Support In Japan
KDDI, Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier, announced [J] their new agreement with New York based location based service Foursquare, to collaborate on promotion and customer support of …
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Who Are Japan's Top 10 Celebrity Bloggers?
Tokyo-based CyberAgent, one of Japan’s oldest web companies (founded in 1998 and currently listed with a $1.7 billion market cap), issued two interesting press releases earlier this week. On …
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Toyota's Marketing Arm To Hold Social App Contest And Cheer Motor Industry
Toyota Marketing Japan(TMJ)[J], a 100% subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, announced it would have a contest on ideas of new apps integrating social network platforms which especially intend to …
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Japan's No.1 Social Network - Gree And Mobage Town Competes
At the beginning of February, two of Japanese social networking giants, Gree and DeNA(Mobage Town company) released quarterly financial reports. Gree’s 2011-2Q report [J] showed its sales …
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Groupon Slows Down After New Year Osechi Incident In Japan
One month after the Groupon Japan’s New Year celebration food Osechi delivery trouble, Japanese consumers mind seem to be away from daily deal coupon services, even with the Groupon CEO Andrew …
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Social Translation Service Conyac Integrates Facebook And Badgeville
Tokyo-based tech start-up Anydoor announced today that it had completed the integration of its social translation service Conyac with Facebook and social rewards platform Badgeville, which allows …
