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Movatwitter Has A New Owner: jig.jp Buys Twitter Client Operator Mindscope
Tokyo-based mobile tech company jig.jp today announced it acquired Mindscope, the startup behind popular Twitter client movatwitter. movatwitter is Japanese-only, web-based and as such usable across …
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Event: Echelon 2012 Japan Satellite In Tokyo This Friday (April 27)
Singapore-based tech blog e27 is holding Echelon 2012 on June 11-12, a startup event the site calls the biggest of its kind in Asia. As in previous years, Echelon will take place in Singapore (the …
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Three Of Japan's Top Telcos Standardize Display Of Email Emoticons
Three of Japan’s four biggest mobile carriers, namely NTT Docomo, KDDI au, and eAccess, are about to make it easier for their combined subscriber base of roughly 90 million people to exchange …
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Rakuten To Dissolve Lekutian In China, Joint-Mall With Baidu
Japan’s largest e-mall company Rakuten today announced [J] that they would shut down its Chinese e-mall Lekutian(rakuten.cn) planned in May, 2012. Rakuten jointly established Lekutian with …
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Jeff Bezos Wants Amazon Japan's Sales To Grow 30%, Bring Kindle Over This Year
There can be no doubt that with a US$15 billion market cap, 75 million user accounts in Japan alone, and over 10,000 employees worldwide, the 800-pound gorilla in Japan’s e-commerce sector is …
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Hulu Japan Cuts Price 2/3 To 980 Yen
Hulu Japan lowered its subscription fee from monthly 1,480 yen (US$18.3) to 980 yen (US$12.1) . 2 weeks ago, Hulu Japan succeeded to receive contents first from major national broadcast …
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FxCamera: Tokyo-Based Bitcellar Buys Popular Android Photo App
Tokyo-based photo storage service startup Bitcellar today announced it has acquired FxCamera, the biggest camera app on Android phones at the moment: according to the company, FxCamera currently …
