The Tokyo-based mobile app start-up YouMind[J] launched last Friday the free mobile service called Hitomebo[J], which allows you to record where and when you have seen cute girls or handsome boys and fallen in love, just only with a GPS-compatible mobile phone. One of the the company’s directors experienced to see a cute girl in… Continue reading Your Cellphone Helps Inducing A Coincidental Meet To Dating
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Yahoo! Japan Launches TV Version Site
“Terebi-ban (TV version) Yahoo! Japan” is a new variation of Yahoo! Japan for home TV browsers. Left side-bar menu has only 7 items, news, weather, sports, astrology, TV programme, cooking recipe and Chiebukuro (Yahoo! Answers Japanese version). The content is only 8 news headlines, 1 news with photo and 2 hot keywords. It is so… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Launches TV Version Site
Two Broadband Video Streaming Sites To Be Merged To Survive
Yahoo Japan[J] announced Tuesday it would buy 51% stake in Gyao[J] which is the free broadband video streaming service and has been wholly owned by Japan’s largest cable music broadcaster USEN. Yahoo Japan will buy Gyao’s 4,998 shares for USD5.3M, and merge Gyao and Yahoo Douga (Yahoo Japan’s free video streaming service) together this… Continue reading Two Broadband Video Streaming Sites To Be Merged To Survive
NTT DoCoMo Buys 51% Stake in Japan’s 4th Largest Informercial Company
Japan’s largest cellphone career, NTT DoCoMo announced it has agreed to buy 51% stake for approx. USD310M in the country’s 4th largest TV infomercial company based in Nagoya, Oak Lawn Marketing(OLM). OLM was co-founded by a Chicagoese and university graduate who visited Nagoya in 1989. The company is best known for selling a German stain remover… Continue reading NTT DoCoMo Buys 51% Stake in Japan’s 4th Largest Informercial Company
Ichitaro Inventor, Just Systems To Be Subsidiary of The Osaka-Based Sensor Company
The Japanese word processing software pioneer, Just Systems announced today it would increase the capital by allocating new shares to the Osaka-based sensor manufacturer Keyence Corporation. Keyence plans to buy 43.96% stake in Just Systems, and it worths USD45M. After a full chase with the other word processing softwares like Microsoft Word, Just Systems’ money-making… Continue reading Ichitaro Inventor, Just Systems To Be Subsidiary of The Osaka-Based Sensor Company
Agile Media Network raises $1M
Agile Media Network raised a $1M investment from Ant Capital Partners on March 31st. They use the investment to develop new software systems. Agile Media Network is a Japanese ad-network / blog marketing company for blogs and social media which was established in February 2007. They sell ads of many Japanese top blogs such as… Continue reading Agile Media Network raises $1M
April Fools’ Day Jokes On Japanese Websphere
On the day when all we are permitted to wag the dog, many companies devoted themselves to create attractive pranks on their websites. I wrapped up what had happened on Japanese web scene. For pursuing the journalist’s perspective to be honest on the facts, we Asiajin report no prank nor joke, but do the fact… Continue reading April Fools’ Day Jokes On Japanese Websphere
Train Your Singing With iPhone Under Cherry Trees, And Attend MySpace Japan’s Karaoke Contest
Japan’s third largest karaoke company Xing[J](pronounced “eksing”) started Monday the free karaoke service[J] on MySpace Japan(MSJ)[J], which enables to record your karaoke performance on video or audio. Twenty five brand new tunes will be added to the lineups every week, the video recording your performance can be shared with your friends on the SNS. In… Continue reading Train Your Singing With iPhone Under Cherry Trees, And Attend MySpace Japan’s Karaoke Contest
Google Japan Removes Hot Keywords From Its Top
“Google Kyuujyoushou Waado (Hot Keywords)”, which was introduced on the Japanese top page of Google on February 5th to show users recent most searched keywords, has been removed from the top page and the former top page is back (Google Japan’s announcement [J]), except “more” localization done in March. The page with hot keywords was… Continue reading Google Japan Removes Hot Keywords From Its Top
“Refugee Camp” Is Launched For Stray Blog Readers Who Have Lost Their Favorites
You would like to avoid moving your blog to a new platform as far as being satisfied with the one you are currently using. However, your blog platform provider may suddenly shut down its service due to their financial reasons or policy changes. When moving, in order to prevent disengaging your fans, you are truly… Continue reading “Refugee Camp” Is Launched For Stray Blog Readers Who Have Lost Their Favorites