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Nikkei Officially Announced Its Digital Version With 4,000 Yen Per Month
As we reported the leaked info last month, Japan’s industrial newspaper Nikkei Shimbun (Nikkei is abbreviation of Nihon Keizai = Japan’s economy) is to begin their paid online version …
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Internet Ads Overtakes Newspaper To Become No.2 After Television In Japan
Dentsu Inc., Japan’s largest advertisement agency, published its annual Japan’s advertising expenditures report. [J, pdf] According to the report, Dentsu estimates that advertisers spend …
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Japan No.2 Carrier KDDI au Announces Android and Windows Phone Shipment Since This June
KDDI (cellphone network name is “au”) today announced [J] that they will sell 2 smartphones, Android and Windows Phone at earliest in June 2010. They will open their own Android …
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Ning-like "My Own Social Network" Service So-net SNS Gives Up Their Business
So-net SNS, one of the largest free hosting of user generated social networking services in Japan, announced [J] their termination of service in June. # SNS stands for “Social Networking …
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Social Application Forum: Made-in-Japan apps for the world
The recession, almost no IPOs, structural shortcomings, not enough hot startups to invest in: The Japanese venture capital industry is in a critical situation. The current state of affairs forces …
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First Arrest by Perfect Dark, the Latest P2P Client
Different language, different application. That is not an exclusive phenomenon for web services like Facebook against Japanese big 3. The most popular P2P file sharing software on Japanese web is not …
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Hummer Is Certified As "Eco Car" By Japanese Government
(photo by airgap) This may not be really web/IT for regular Asiajin, but fuel saving is supported by IT, and car and software may be hot topic around US Toyota incident, too (thanks for link Paul). …
