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New Law Approved To Permit Nonbank Remittance And To Accelerate E-Commerce Deals
New legislation (its proposal draft[J]), which allows nonbanks to deal with payments and money transfers, was approved by the Lower House of Japan today. It will accelerate competition in reducing …
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Japan's First iPhone Ad Network Arouses More Useful Free Apps
Traffic Gate, an affiliate service provider and a joint venture of two of Japan’s major dot-com companies CyberAgent and Rakuten, unveiled today a new ad network for developing ad-revenue …
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Banner? Banana? No Banner-na! AD services to seek designs from users.
Drecom[J], a company developing blogs and web2.0 services, has released an AD service to seek design of web banners for mobile sites from public users, named as “Atsumete …
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McDonald's And Nintendo Team Up To Call In More Minors
McDonald’s Japan[J] teamed up with Nintendo, and today it launches a new service allowing Nintendo DS users to download Pokemon avatars, evaluation copies of game software and discount coupon …
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Original Comic Distribution To Be Launched For World's iPhone-rs
In July, Hot Source[J], a Tokyo-based start-up company, will start online comic distrubution service specifically designed for iPhone/iPod devices, in association with Sakura Cube[J] operating an …
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Mobile social network GREE adds 2 million members in 3 months, makes lots of money
GREE, a mobile social network only operating in Japan, is adding members at an incredible speed. In April 2008, the number of registered users hit 10 million members already, but GREE expects a …
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Report of RubyConf China 2009
May 21st, the father of Ruby, Yukihiro Matsumoto aka Matz, visited Shanghai to attend RubyConf China 2009, the first large Ruby conference in China. The conference was an astonishing success. 450 …
