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Japan's No. 1 Online Mall Rakuten Buys Into Thailand's Leading E-Commerce Company Tarad
Japan’s biggest online shopping mall Rakuten (nearly 50 million registered users in Japan/Asiajin articles) today announced [JP] a capital and business alliance with Bangkok-based Tarad Dot Com …
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The First Mixi Appli Is Blamed And Stopped As Discriminatory
Mixi, the biggest social network service in Japan, started their OpenSocial compliant application platform Mixi Appli officially opened to every Mixi user on PC on last month. Mixi Appli Mobile is …
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In Japan, Freemium Works. Nico Nico Douga paid member user base passes 500k
One of the big differences between the web in Japan versus America or Europe is the way sites are being monetized. Generally speaking, the level of acceptance for the freemium model seems to be …
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Mixi Echo Becomes Mixi Voice To Chase Twitter
Japan’s biggest social network service Mixi [J, registration required], who had started in-service microblog Mixi Echo since last summer, renamed it with Mixi Voice and made it as an …
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Amazon Japan's Counterattacks To Rakuten Books
Amazon Japan v.s. Japan’s local Rakuten battle was recently well covered on TechCrunch (by our buddy Serkan Toto, of course). Amazon is doing pretty good localization on their main part, books, …
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See You, CU
Even Japan’s Web Colossus Yahoo! Japan can easily fail if trying to force real name to Japanese users. The social business networking service Yahoo! CU, which launched November 2008 is …
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New Dating Game Robs Boys Of Loves In Girlfriends
Love Plus[J] is a virtual dating simulation game, which was developed by Konami for Nintendo DS and went on sale at the beginning of this month. This game title attracts an enormous number of game …
