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Young American Serial Entrepreneur Faces Harsh Criticism Over Free-By-Ads WiFi Service Privacy Issue
Kristopher Tate is an American-born serial entrepreneur who had appeared many times on TechCrunch by his photo-sharing start up Zooomr founded at his age of 17. TechCrunch’s database had not …
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Presentation: DeNA, Mobage, GREE - Demystifying Japan’s Social Gaming Market
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan’s social gaming sector, in which I am analyzing some key areas and companies (especially DeNA and GREE) of this rapidly growing industry. In …
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3-Minutes Video Tutorial Site For Programming Learners "Dotinstall" Launches
Two popular Japanese bloggers, @taguchi[J] and @fkoji[J], launched new video tutorial site called dotinstall[J], which is aimed at ultra-beginner of programming. The site currently provides about 300 …
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Japan's Web News Week 48
This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Twitter Japan-Mixi alliance article was on Techmeme. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise …
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Japan Gets Its Own YouTube Movie Rental Service
So far, only YouTube users from Canada, the US and (since October) the UK were able to rent movies, but yesterday, Japan has finally been added to the list, too (the country is the second biggest …
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DeNA Baseball Team Officially Approved
In the morning today December 1, Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB)’s temporary executive committee approved it, then afternoon, owners meeting also approved the deal that the original owner of …
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NTT Docomo Denied The Rumored LTE iPad/iPhone Plan
Nikkei BP’s scoop [J] on Docomo agreeing with Apple to sell the next generation iPad/iPhone in 2012 (Mac Rumors, Macgasm and many other reported) was officially denied by NTT Docomo [J]. Nikkei …
