RubyConf China 2010 will be held on June 26th at Shanghai Television University (228 Guoshun Road, cross Yangpu Road) (上海电视大学，国顺路288号). Last year RubyConf China was held very successfully with 450 attendees. Ruby’s father Matz was treated like a superstar with lots of autograph and photograph requests. This year, some of the talks will be done… Continue reading RubyConf China 2010 To Be Held In Shanghai On June 26
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CyberAgent Acquires 20% Stake In Chinese Android Development Firm mAPPn
The Japanese and Chinese web industries keep getting closer together. Yesterday Tokyo-based Internet behemoth CyberAgent (currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a $1 billion market cap) announced it will take a 20% stake in mAPPn, an Android development firm with offices in China, Taiwan and the US (the press release in Japanese is… Continue reading CyberAgent Acquires 20% Stake In Chinese Android Development Firm mAPPn
Softbank To Stop Further Development Of Japan-Made Mobile Technology And To Take Chinese 4G Standard?
Softbank, a Japanese telecom and media company who will take over the next-generation PHS service called XGP[J] from the service’s predecessor Willcom in corporate reorganization proceedings, is reportedly considering to adopt China Mobile‘s TD-LTE standard instead for the service in Japan, several Japanese news sources reported. If Softbank adopts TD-LTE, Softbank’s subscribers in Japan and… Continue reading Softbank To Stop Further Development Of Japan-Made Mobile Technology And To Take Chinese 4G Standard?
Uniqlo Runs Powerful Web Promos In Prior To Shanghai Real Store Launch
Tokyo-based global fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo started the Internet promotion campaign using China’s Facebook-like social network Kaixin and YouTube-like video sharing platform Youku, in prior to the May 15th opening of the company’s first flagship store in Shanghai. On Kaixin, the company set up an exclusive account[C] for the promotion, and is announcing news updates and… Continue reading Uniqlo Runs Powerful Web Promos In Prior To Shanghai Real Store Launch
2010 Shanghai Expo Theme Song Sounds… Japanese Pop
Some Japanese online media on China news reported that the opening theme of Expo 2010 Shanghai China, which is coming next month, is very similar with a Japanese pop song released last century. A Japanese singer/songwriter Maya Okamoto’s “Sonomama no Kimi de ite”(そのままの君でいて) in 1997. Shanghai Expo Theme Song “Waiting you in 2010″(2010等你来) sung by… Continue reading 2010 Shanghai Expo Theme Song Sounds… Japanese Pop
Yahoo! Japan And Taobao To Connect Their Shopping Networks This Summer
Nikkei reported [J, subscription required] that Yahoo! Japan and Taobao are discussing to interconnect their shopping services between Japan and China in summer. Yahoo! Japan holds Yahoo! Shopping, No.2 online shopping service after Rakuten Ichiba. Taobao is China’s largest shopping site in Alibaba group. Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba are related via the common investor Softbank.… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan And Taobao To Connect Their Shopping Networks This Summer
Index Corp. Helps Foreign Social Game Developers Enter Japan
Mixi, GREE, Mobage-town – Japan’s top three social networking services have either already opened or decided to open their platforms to third-party developers in the last few months. And a handful of foreign application providers, such as RockYou from the US or Rekoo from China, already managed to successfully launch localized social games on Mixi,… Continue reading Index Corp. Helps Foreign Social Game Developers Enter Japan
Rakuten Allies With Baidu To Promote Their E-commerce Business in Mainland China
Japan’s biggest, and the world second largest e-commerce company Rakuten, which is also known by its active overseas activities in last years as a Japanese originated web company, announced its partnership with China’s leading, and the world third largest search engine company Baidu. [pdf] According to the release, Rakuten and Baidu agreed to establish a… Continue reading Rakuten Allies With Baidu To Promote Their E-commerce Business in Mainland China
President Thrown Shoes Ads by Alibaba China
China’s largest e-commerce company Alibaba.com seems to have a good sense of humour and doing viral marketing there in the secret Chinese web. Chinese film creator Hu Ge(胡戈) makes a parody movie of the former US president Bush’s dodging thrown shoes at a press conference in Iraq. In the movie the president was less patient… Continue reading President Thrown Shoes Ads by Alibaba China
Japan’s Index Corp. To Launch (Apparently Gigantic) Virtual Mall In China
Tokyo-based (and JASDAQ-listed) Index Corp. has decided to shake hands with Chinese retail giant Hualian to launch and run a large virtual shopping mall. Somehow surprisingly, Index, a leading mobile contents provider, will develop the site for China’s fixed web and not the country’s rapidly growing mobile web. The main idea is to offer an… Continue reading Japan’s Index Corp. To Launch (Apparently Gigantic) Virtual Mall In China