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Japanese Social Marketplace Flutterscape Gets $300,000 Seed Money
A Japanese Internet startup that not only has international ambitions but that’s also able to receive a substantial amount of seed money is a very, very rare beast. But today, we can report …
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Send a Package via Email Address
SoftBank Frameworks, logistics provider and a subsidiary of SoftBank, announced a new service where you can send packages without knowing the recipient’s physical address. The service is called …
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Exclusive Interview: How Does myGengo's String Help Site Translation?
We’ve covered myGengo, web-based human translation service startup in Japan on our previous article on translation tools in June. Since then, while publishing Twitter account translations and an …
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WSJ To Launch Japanese News Portal In December
The Wall Street Journal(WSJ) announced today it would launch Japanese news portal site[J] on December 15th. This will be the company’s second non-English portal site following Chinese …
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Real-Time Drawing Collaboration Service Cacoo Breaks Out of Beta
Fukuoka-based nulab, Inc. [ja] launched a real-time collaboration tool for drawing diagrams called Cacoo. With its real-time synchronization technology, you can edit files on Cacoo while other team …
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Two Different Approaches To Digitize Printed Magazines
It is very interesting that there are two different ways leading to the almost same results. I wonder which approach makes it successful in their business. What do you think? Tokyo-based e-commerce …
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Japan’s Largest Q&A Site Launches Official Chinese Edition
On Tuesday, Shibuya-based Q&A portal site OK Wave officially released its Chinese edition[C] in association with Chubun Industry[J] which publishes a Chinese-language newsletter[C] and provides a …
