Yahoo! Japan Allies With CCC(Tsutaya), Japan’s Blockbuster

Yahoo! Japan, the nation’s largest web service, and Culture Convenience Club(CCC), who runs video rental chain store Tsutaya and the center of the reward point network T-point, announced their tight alliance today after the Tokyo stock market closed. According to the release [J], Yahoo! Japan to merge T-ID, online ID for 40 million T-point card… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Allies With CCC(Tsutaya), Japan’s Blockbuster

Nihon Enterprises Opening Android Market From Summer Which Allows Payment Using Point Program “Ponta”

Nihon Enterprise, [J] in partnership with Royality Marketing, who run the community point program Ponta, [J] has announced that from this summer they will launch the Android contents service “Ponta App Market” which can make transactions using Ponta points. “Ponta App Market” is a marketplace for Android where you can leisurely purchase contents using saved… Continue reading Nihon Enterprises Opening Android Market From Summer Which Allows Payment Using Point Program “Ponta”

Dentsu Buys 15% Stake In Tokyo-Based Web Company Kakaku.Com

Tokyo-based Dentsu, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world, today announced [JP, PDF] it has acquired 15.06% of Kakaku.com, Japan’s largest price comparison site and community (all Kakaku-related articles on Asiajin, my very early review of the site from 2007). The eponymous company behind the service is currently listed at the Tokyo Stock… Continue reading Dentsu Buys 15% Stake In Tokyo-Based Web Company Kakaku.Com

Opt Offers Social Recommendation Application Market “myappee” Also In Coordination With T-points

Opt has begun to implement the social recommendation application market “myappee,” which knows which Android apps are popular based on “Like this” and user tweets. New applications are also open for registration [J]. Myappee is a service which introduces popular applications for Android. It combines “ranking.” “recommended,” and “points” to introduce the truly most popular… Continue reading Opt Offers Social Recommendation Application Market “myappee” Also In Coordination With T-points

Video Rental Store Chain To Be Lead Shareholder Of Kakaku.com

A Shibuya-based Internet conglomerate Digital Garage (DG) announced on Thursday that it would sell a half of all the shares of Kakaku.com[J], a B2C price comparison site and a subsidiary of DG, to Culture Convenience Club (CCC) owning Japan’s largest nationwide store chain providing video rental service called Tsutaya[J].   CCC plans to purchase 58,360 shares… Continue reading Video Rental Store Chain To Be Lead Shareholder Of Kakaku.com