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Japanese Newspaper Finally Tweets
For the first case in Japanese newspaper’s history, Asahi Shimbun, one of the country’s nationwide major papers, set up an account for Twitter[J] today, and is running play-by-play tweet …
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Japan's First Mobile WiMax Officially Announces Its Launch In July
UQ Communications, Japan’s first mobile WiMax carrier fund-raised by six shareholders including KDDI and Intel Capital, announced officially it had set the service launch on July 1st. Toshiba, …
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GeeksOnaAPlane: Silicon Valley meets the Tokyo tech scene
While it’s not unheard of that entrepreneurs and VCs from Japan go to California for information exchange, fund-raising (sometimes), networking and other purposes, Americans taking the trip to …
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Translation Tool: New Option Between Human Profession And Computer's Imperfectness
Today, in Japan, it seems that there is a boom in launching a new business category called “Social Translation”. Last week a Tokyo-based tech start-up Anydoor[J] launched a web-based new …
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ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Begins Twitter and Got 2,500 Followers in 5 Hours
Takafumi Horie, aka Horiemon, who founded livedoor, one of the Japanese major web companies, who was arrested by securities fraud in 2006, began twitter and quickly getting thousands of followers in …
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Sony Makes Mashup Screensaver for Blue-Ray Recorder Promotion
As a part of their blue-ray disc recorder promotion, Sony gives away Windows/Mac screen saver on their site. After pressing “download” button, you have to scroll down the terms of use to …
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IVP Launches New Fund Raised By Web2.0 Celebrities In Japan & China
On Wednesday, Infinity Venture LLP[J] announced it would launch a new fund targeting investment on mobile start-ups in Japan and Mainland China. The Fundraisers for this are founders and presidents …
