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Drecom To Quit Job Board Service
Drecom, once was a college-venture star IPO-ed, recently financially helped by Rakuten, announced that they would shut down their job board service “Drecom Job Board” at the end of …
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Japan's Best-known Midnight Radio Program Goes Mobile
Most Japanese, who are younger than 40 years old, would have listened to this program. “Allnight Nippon[J]”, which is aired live every midnight on Nippon Broadcasting System(NBS)[J] and …
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Keitai Shousetsu export: China to get 100 Japanese cell phone novels
A big web trend from Japan that gained traction in China is now poised to become even bigger: Keitai Shousetsu (cell phone novels). These novels, which are not only being read on cell phones but also …
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Startup Showdown: Two Business Contests Announce Finalists
A couple of tech-oriented business contests announced the finalists on Friday. At first, Tokyo-based VC firm ngi Group and online game developer Aeria[J] jointly held the 1st edition of business …
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Japanese P2P Filesharing Network Being Attacked From Cloud
As same as other fields, for point-to-point(P2P) file sharing, there are Japanese counterpart of Kazaa/Limewire/Torrent. Once it was Winny, but after the developer of Winny was prosecuted for making a …
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Search engine Baidu to offer e-commerce support in China for Japanese companies
Another case of Chinese and Japanese web companies shaking hands. Chinese search engine Baidu is a super-power in its home market and has, as the company’s first regular service outside of …
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Smart.fm Fundraises USD3.37M From NTT
Japanese telecom giant NTT and Cerego Japan, an owner of a UGC-based social learning site Smart.fm(previously known as iKnow!), announced both had reached the agreement of the partnership in boosting …
