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"Hello Kitty World" Game App To Be Released In 48 Countries And Regions
Nifty, Inc. [J] has announced that they will expand and develop “Hello Kitty World,” an iOS game app offered in Taiwan in Japan in collaboration with Sanrio Wave Inc. [J], for 48 more countries and …
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Zynga Japan Retires 3 Social Game Titles
Zynga Japan K. K. [J] has announced that they will terminate service of the three of their social game titles “Mojitomo☆”, “Machitsuku!”, and “Montopia” by December 21st. This is because of the major …
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KDDI And Gijutsu Hyouronsha Hold AR Development Contest
Gijutsu Hyouronsha Inc. [J] and KDDI Inc. [J] are hosting the Dai Nikai Sacchi Ningen Contest [J] (Second Time Sense Human Contest), a contest for AR (Augmented Reality) applications developed using …
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Social Gamers' Social Media Use in Japan
Not a long time ago we conducted a large scale study by surveying 1000 online panel members about their social media usage habits. Although I personally have some doubts about online panels, as the …
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Sony Features Dancing Headphone Girls From All Japan's 47-Prefecture
Sony Headphone’s official new promotion in Japan is movies on its YouTube channel. Not sounds new? But 47 girls from each prefecture dancing with the headphone at tourist places and/or with …
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Yahoo! Japan And DeNA Strengthen Its Business Alliances "As Well"
As I wrote yesterday on Yahoo! Japan-Gree’s business tie-up announcement. The new Yahooo! Japan board seems to be really good on diplomacy, timing two social game giants Gree and (DeNA’s) …
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Location Service Colopl To Get IPO On TSE Mothers In December
Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers section today announced [J] that Colopl, an Tokyo-based IT company who runs the same name Internet location service Colopl, is approved to be listed planned on December …