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Which Foreign Startups Are Doing Well In Japan "Under The Radar"?
It’s no secret that in recent years, quite a few foreign (mostly American) web brands have made it big in Japan: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon etc. But what about startups that …
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Japan Gets "How To Use Instagram" Book
The Japanese love books (the book market over here is worth $23 billion annually) and cool mobile apps, for example the popular photo sharing app Instagram. Combine these two phenomena and you get a …
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BeeTV: Docomo's Mobile TV Service Hits 1.5 Million User Mark
Mobile TV is often cited as being a dream of the future in most markets, but it has been around in Japan, the world’s most advanced mobile nation, for years. The majority of the 100+ handsets …
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DeNA To Introduce Unified Brand 'Mobage' Worldwide
DeNA, a Japanese company who runs the Japan’s possibly-No.1 social network Mobage Town, announced [J] that they would change their current brands, Mobage Town(mbga.jp) in Japan and Plus+ …
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February 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Early part of Februrary news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Otobank’s book reading app (by a …
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Pacman Twitter Client Pac'n Twit
Pac’n Twit for iPhone/iPad is a new free Twitter client by Bandai Namco, yes, the company made Pacman 31 years ago (Namco merged with Bandai in 2005). Here is a screenshot of Twitter timeline, …
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Mark Zuckerberg Look-alike Japanese Comedian
When something’s the topic of the moment, anything about it can become big news. Here we go, Facebook news again. Japanese comedian Shigeo Takahashi (photos on Google Image Search), a member of …
