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 tracked him later but he migrated to Tokyo with Zooomr with seeing more possibility in Japan and Japanese web in 2007, has been actively developing… Continue reading Young American Serial Entrepreneur Faces Harsh Criticism Over Free-By-Ads WiFi Service Privacy Issue
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WordPress Japanese Official Character Gets A Name
WordPress set [J] its Japanese official character in February 2011, and held a naming contest [J] recently. So its name is Wapuu. Wapuu’s character is copyrighted by the creator Kazuko Kaneuchi [J], but the license is the same as WordPress, GPL version 2 or any later version. Six Apart, a blog application rival who led… Continue reading WordPress Japanese Official Character Gets A Name
Say Media To Sell Six Apart Japan And The Brand To Infocom
Six Apart Japan, a 100% subsidiary of Say Media, who bought a blog service company Six Apart (U.S.) in September 2010, announced [J] that the whole stock of the company will be sold from Say Media to a Japanese company Infocom soon. According to the announcement, Six Apart Japan takes the “Six Apart” trademark, keeps… Continue reading Say Media To Sell Six Apart Japan And The Brand To Infocom
April Fools’ Day Jokes On Japanese Websphere
On the day when all we are permitted to wag the dog, many companies devoted themselves to create attractive pranks on their websites. I wrapped up what had happened on Japanese web scene. For pursuing the journalist’s perspective to be honest on the facts, we Asiajin report no prank nor joke, but do the fact… Continue reading April Fools’ Day Jokes On Japanese Websphere