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BREAKING: DeNA Officially Launches Mobage to All English Speaking Countries and China
In a truly global rollout, DeNA has just announced that Mobage social games platform for Android has just been released in English-speaking countries around the world as well as China. Mobage is …
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Microsoft Dives Into Japan's Booming Smartphone Market With World's First Mango Smartphone And Other Key Partnerships
In a joint press conference held this morning, Microsoft, Fujitsu-Toshiba and KDDI unveiled [J] the Fujitsu-Toshiba IS12T smartphone, the world’s very first Windows Phone Mango handset hitting …
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Cyber Agent Releases New Social Game "World Chef" For Facebook
Cyber Agent has released the new social game “World Chef” for Facebook. You can play using an already existing avatar from the 2D virtual space “Ameba Pico,” which is offered by the same company. …
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DeNA Recruits Legendary Japanese Game Designers Into "Super Creators" Initiative
In a press conference yesterday, DeNA announced [J] the formation of the “Super Creators” initiative, an all-star team of five veteran game designers from the traditional Japanese games …
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Colish Gives Roommate-Matching A Different Spin
You may have heard of the launch of a roommate matching service Colish yesterday. It’s a project born out of Startup Weekend Tokyo in May, that provides a meeting point for like-minded people to …
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Japanese Twitter Users Play On New Japanese Hashtags
Official Twitter blog announced [J] that Twitter is capable of Japanese character hashtags. (our post reported it) Then, a lot of Japanese Twitter users started strange wordplay. This is a trend …
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Web Reactions - Japan Analog TV Ends Its 58 Years History
All Japanese analog terrestrial television broadcasting were terminated today at 12:00 p.m. July 24 (Japan Standard Time) as planned, aiming more effective radio wave usage by re-assigning their bands …
