People say two key reasons why they subscribe to daily newspaper are for checking up TV program’s time table and free standing inserts provided by local supermarkets. The inserts are very important items especially for housewives who have to manage the family budgets. On Friday, it became possible for them to check up the latest… Continue reading Check Up Supermarket Prices At Station With Your Mobile
Category: Japan
Asahi Newspaper Tweets Soccer and RSS Mixed
As we reported a week ago, national newspaper Asahi Shimbun began a twitter experiment reporting soccer match by national team for the World Cup. The tweeted reports were well-received by web users, but some web people worried that the too frank and personal-sounding tweets may make the main readers of the newspaper, elders, upset. Then… Continue reading Asahi Newspaper Tweets Soccer and RSS Mixed
New Law Approved To Permit Nonbank Remittance And To Accelerate E-Commerce Deals
New legislation (its proposal draft[J]), which allows nonbanks to deal with payments and money transfers, was approved by the Lower House of Japan today. It will accelerate competition in reducing remittance charges among banks and potential service agents in this market. In order to protect consumers from damages caused by possible bankruptcies of remittance agents,… Continue reading New Law Approved To Permit Nonbank Remittance And To Accelerate E-Commerce Deals
Japan’s First iPhone Ad Network Arouses More Useful Free Apps
Traffic Gate, an affiliate service provider and a joint venture of two of Japan’s major dot-com companies CyberAgent and Rakuten, unveiled today a new ad network for developing ad-revenue services using iPhone app, named “TG Ad for iPhone[J]“. It is a very similar approach to AdMob‘s mobile ad solutions that the San Francisco-based tech company… Continue reading Japan’s First iPhone Ad Network Arouses More Useful Free Apps
Banner? Banana? No Banner-na! AD services to seek designs from users.
Drecom[J], a company developing blogs and web2.0 services, has released an AD service to seek design of web banners for mobile sites from public users, named as “Atsumete Banner-na[J]“(meaning collect Banner-na). A banana-shaped character is used as a mascot for the service. Advertisers post themes for banners, then public users create banners and register them… Continue reading Banner? Banana? No Banner-na! AD services to seek designs from users.
McDonald’s And Nintendo Team Up To Call In More Minors
McDonald’s Japan[J] teamed up with Nintendo, and today it launches a new service allowing Nintendo DS users to download Pokemon avatars, evaluation copies of game software and discount coupon for the humburger meals for free via WiFi access points installed at 3,200 McDonalds shops in Japan, which is 85% of the entire fast food chain.… Continue reading McDonald’s And Nintendo Team Up To Call In More Minors
Original Comic Distribution To Be Launched For World’s iPhone-rs
In July, Hot Source[J], a Tokyo-based start-up company, will start online comic distrubution service specifically designed for iPhone/iPod devices, in association with Sakura Cube[J] operating an Internet comic sale site. Unlike similar services that other iPhone/iPod app-based content publishers provide by scanning paper-printed comics, Hot Source’s new series are originally developed to be seen on… Continue reading Original Comic Distribution To Be Launched For World’s iPhone-rs
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 whopping 2 million more as early as the end of this month. GREE offers dozens of (essentially) free games to play on… Continue reading Mobile social network GREE adds 2 million members in 3 months, makes lots of money
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 category search will be closed. They had already closed down their movie and image search last month. The announcement says that some… Continue reading Ask.jp Shuts Down Its Japanese Search Engine
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. Cookpad is a recipe sharing site with 558,939 registered recipes. The site has 6.8 million unique users and 351 million page views per month. Cookpad… Continue reading Recipe Sharing Site Cookpad Goes IPO