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Rakuten Brings "Super Points" Loyalty Program To Buy.Com
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten, which currently boasts a market cap of US$9.7 billion, has been relatively quiet after having acquired US-based Buy.com earlier this year (for US$250 …
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LTE vs. Extention Of Current Techs: Who Brings Us The World's Fastest Mobile Broadband?
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo announced at their seasonal press conference that it would launch an LTE (long-term evolution) service called Xi[J] (pronounced as …
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Medical Net Communications Goes IPO On Tokyo Stock Exchange
Japan’s tech IPO market has been drying up dramatically in recent months, but there are still some IPOs happening. Today it was announced that Tokyo-based Japan Medical Net Communications, …
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Nico Nico Douga Turns In The Black In Full-year Result And Plans New Office In Harajuku
Dwango[J], the parent of the company running Japan’s largest video sharing site Nico Nico Douga[J], announced its full-year consolidated financial statements (Oct. 2009 thru Sep. 2010) last …
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Kadokawa To Launch E-Book Distribution Platform; Some Novelists Can't Wait And Launch Their Own
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing[J] and its subsidiaries, which are known for having published many comic titles and magazines, announced on Friday that they would launch an e-book distribution platform …
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Apple Partners With Dentsu To Boost Smartphone Ad Business In Japan
The world’s largest ad agency Dentsu announced it had partnered with Apple for the sales of smartphone ad network iAd in Japan. Dentsu will start the sales in early 2011, and their subsidiary …
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Tokyo's P2P Lending Service ExCo Fundraises From Dave McClure's 500 Startups
Tokyo-based P2P(peer-to-peer) lending service company Exchange Corporation (in short, ExCo) announced today that they had fundraised several hundred thousand US dollars - exact number not disclosed - …
