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Granny's Maid Cafe Rottenmeier Opens For A Month In Ikebukuro
Not only in the holy land Akihabara, but everywhere in Tokyo you see maid cafe. When market is competitive, some tries to be unique like in the geeky BSD daemon motif [J], dressing up in boys cloths …
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Gree To Take Several Percent Stake In Singapore's SMS/IM-based Social Network Mig33
Japan’s third largest social network GREE[J] announced today they would invest in Mig33 (by Project Goth, Inc.) who is a SMS and IM text messaging-based social network platform in Singapore. …
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How Google Shopping Impacts On Kakaku.com's Pricing Business?
Google launched its price comparison service intended to Japanese market today, that collects product description and price updates from an enormous number of e-commerce retailers and allows you to …
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Twitter CRM Service CoTweet To Enter Japan Assisted By NTT Communications
On October 27th, NTT Communications announced [J] that they would cooperate with Indiana-based ExactTarget to promote their enterprise Twitter client for customer service CoTweet for Japan. They …
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Cybozu Aims At Business-oriented Social Network, And Something Different From Facebook
Cybozu Inc., a Tokyo-based package vendor having developed a web-based groupware intended to Japanese SMEs for more than a decade, introduced their brand new SaaS edition of the groupware last …
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IncubateFund To Hold A Boot Camp For Encouraging Entrepreneurs In Their 20s
IncubateFund[J], an investment team backed by DeNA and it’s known for having invested in Pokelabo and Istpika (both are social app providers), will have a two-day camp for encouraging potential …
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Rakuten Opposes Yahoo Japan-Google Tie-up
As we reported here, Yahoo! Japan is transitioning its search engine platform from what they’ve originally developed to Google’s technology. In opposition to that move, some news sources …
