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Akiba mobile app biz plan competition held by Mitsui VC
Mitsui Ventures, the investment arm of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., organized a business plan competition called “i*deal competition”, and the award presentation ceremony was held today in …
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KAYAC sells their 88 websites
Kayac, a web development and consulting service in Kanagawa, announced that they sell 88 web services they created last year. Kayac, which often addresses themselves as “Omoshiro Houjin …
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Gree says net profit is up 500%, expects yearly sales of 123 million USD
Mobile social networking site Gree [JP] said Friday that their net profit will probably increase by a whopping 500% on a year-by-year basis to 3.5 billion Yen (38.6 million USD, 28.7 million Euros) …
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Users of Kadokawa's New Video Site Can Add Anime Subtitles Collaboratively
Kadokawa Marketing, a subsidiary of this publishing and film-making conglomerate｢J], has introduced a new web video service called “kadoTV”. Kadokawa’s new service allows its users …
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Project CodeRepos - All Our Code Are Belong To Us
CodeRepos is a software repository space where many top-level Japanese web programmers contribute and share their source code. Kazuhiro OOSAWA, aka Yappo, is known well by his privately running …
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TV Asahi Quiz Show cooks up Fake Blogs for Clues
Tokyo-headquartered private TV broadcaster TV-Asahi used fake blog sites on its quiz show, fabricated by the program’s production staff as a real news source for the show’s questions, and …
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Surprise Automatic Withdrawal Angers Japanese ISP Kai's Customers
Tokyo-based ISP and web-hosting provider, Kai Creates Inc. (its services website is called “Linkclub”), recently changed its service rates without notifying its customers. A large number …
