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Mobage town - a mobile social network for teens
Mobage town has been started in 2006 by Tomoko Namba, a Mckinsey alumna. “Mobage town” is short for “mobile game town”. So, Mobage provides numerous small games and a social …
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Rakuten/Matz are developping Web OS based on "Roma" and "Fairy"
via atmark IT At Rakuten Technology Conference 2007, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, a Rakuten fellow who also designed Programming Language Ruby, told about their projects “Roma” …
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Overture Japan leaked massive customers information
via Mainichi Shimbun newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported that Overture Japan, online-advertising subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan, spilled its 28,157 customers information including address, phone number, …
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Twitter founder's talk in Japan
According to Nikkei IT-Pro, Evan Williams, co-founder of twitter had a talk session with Tim O’Reilly at Web2.0 Expo 2007 in Tokyo and told localization plan. In the session, Williams disclosed …
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Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino dies at 37; IPv6 developer and evangelist
Jun-ichiro “itojun” Hagino who as a core developer of the KAME project which enables IPv6 on BSDs, died Oct. 29th 2007. He was 37 and was living in Tokyo, Japan. He was a hacker. A …
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Mochio Umeda - Japan's leading web visionary
Mochio Umeda lives in the Bay Area but he is very influential in Japan. His best selling book, ‘Web Shinkaron’, was excitedly accepted by business people. His word is straight-forward and …
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Rakuten: online shopping monopoly
Rakuten is a giant. Rakuten group has an Internet shopping mall ‘Rakuten’, a hotel reservation site ‘Rakuten Travel’, ‘Rakuten Securities’, ‘Rakuten Credit …
