Early Sunday morning on 2-channel social-network forum, there are people reporting a cheat using bug on a social game Tanken Doriland, run on Japan’s large social game platform Gree. If believe it, Tanken Doriland’s player can copy any virtual card by using two accounts on two cellphones, by sending the original to the other phone,… Continue reading Gree’s Tanken Doriland Bug Let Users Copy Rare-Cards, Sell At Auction Over $300
Tag: Yahoo! Auction
Yahoo! Japan PR Diva Moves To Digital Garage
Popular blog Netafull reported [J] that Risa Nakanishi (@BuzzTum), who has been serving for Yahoo! Japan for 12 years, sometimes called “PR Diva”, (as Yahoo! Japan has been the champion last decade) one of the center figure of Japanese web industry, left Yahoo! and joined Digital Garage(DG), the most known by its founder Joi Itoh.… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan PR Diva Moves To Digital Garage
It’s Official Now. Google Announces Their Search Platform Provided To Yahoo! Japan
Google Asia Pacific and Japan vice president Daniel Alegre announced [J] on official Google Japan blog that Google’s search technology is again provided to Yahoo! Japan. According to the article, Yahoo! Japan uses Google’s search engine as a backend, is able to customize frontend in any way. Google emphasizes that Yahoo! Japan has freehand on… Continue reading It’s Official Now. Google Announces Their Search Platform Provided To Yahoo! Japan
Yahoo! Auction Releases iPhone App
Yahoo! Auction, Japan No.1 auction website who had defeated eBay in 2002 (eBay now collaborates with Yahoo! Auction), expands [J] its frontend into growing smartphone segment with a free iPhone application which name is “Yahuoku”. “Yahuoku” is Japanese abbreviation form of Yahoo! Auction (such like “Super Mario” becomes “Su-mari” and “Pocket Monster” to “Pokemon”) and… Continue reading Yahoo! Auction Releases iPhone App
January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)
Last week our RSS subscribers passed over 5,000, which is a good milestone. Twitter followers also increased to 400. Following @asiajin also will notify our latest articles. Thank you so much. Here is the first half of January Japanese IT/Web interesting news links we did not take as a dedicated article. (part 2 is here)… Continue reading January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)
23 Feet High T-Shirt For Tokyo Gundam Auctioned
Club T, one of the biggest online T-shirts seller (like threadless) in Japan, suggests 7 meters high T-shirt which fits the Odaiba real-sized Gundam statue. The 7m x 4.7m T-shirt, which is designed to the real size Gundam, will be tailored and shipped after one month, though it fails to meet the end date of… Continue reading 23 Feet High T-Shirt For Tokyo Gundam Auctioned
Ex-school Sites Are On Sale For The First Time In Japan’s Internet Auction History
A rural town located on the south coast of Hokkaido Island, Niikappu, put four of the town’s unused municipal elementary school sites on sale on Yahoo Auction[J]. The sites consist of school buildings, swimming pools and teachers’ dormitories. The bid started in the USD21M to USD67M price range. Because of the declining number of applicants for schools… Continue reading Ex-school Sites Are On Sale For The First Time In Japan’s Internet Auction History
Yahoo! Japan launches English version of their auction site
Yahoo! Japan introduced an English version of Yahoo! Japan Auctions on October 10th, 2008. Its target audience is foreign residents in Japan who can communicate in basic Japanese but prefer to use an English interface. Yahoo! Japan Auctions is the biggest Internet auction site in Japan. The major drawback of the English site is that… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan launches English version of their auction site
eBay shakes hands with Yahoo! Japan
Yahoo! Japan, the Japan biggest portal, has partnered with eBay in online auction services. eBay Inc. once tried to open its popular auction service under its subsidiary eBay Japan established in 1999, retreated March 2002 without getting market share against “Yahoo! Auction” (so-called “Yafuoku”). Yahoo! Auction users will have translated eBay items listed by March… Continue reading eBay shakes hands with Yahoo! Japan