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Japanese government: Google Street View isn't soo bad
Google took multiple beatings from various Japanese sides (press, politics, activists etc.) ever since deciding to launch Street View in this country. Google Japan countered concerns if their service …
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Mobile social network GREE adds 2 million members in 3 months, makes lots of money
GREE, a mobile social network only operating in Japan, is adding members at an incredible speed. In April 2008, the number of registered users hit 10 million members already, but GREE expects a …
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Ask.jp Shuts Down Its Japanese Search Engine
Ask Dot JP(ask.jp) announced [J] the end of its search engine service in Japan, to restructure their business operation. On 25th of this month, June 2009, web search, blog search, product search and …
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Recipe Sharing Site Cookpad Goes IPO
Cookpad [JP], Japan’s biggest cooking site, announced today that they will be listed to Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers section on July 17th. CEO, Akimitsu Sano, started the service on 1998. …
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Manga Mode: DoCoMo brings e-manga to European cell phones
Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier NTT DoCoMo and major publisher Shueisha have teamed up and plan to launch an e-manga delivery service for cell phones in Europe. Dubbed Manga Mode and …
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Honda Launches Ranking Site To Encourage Owners To Compete In Fuel-Efficiency
Today, Honda Motor launched a page, titled “Eco Grand Prix”[J], on its corporate website, which shows realtime ranking in fuel-efficiency of the company’s brand new hybrid vehicle …
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Google Developer Day 2009 Yokohama
Google held “Google Developer Day 2009”, an annual conference introducing a number of technology trends that the company had recently developed, in Yokohama on Tuesday and started with a …
