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Japanese mobile gaming startup GREE to open US and China offices within a year
Japan’s social networks seem to be hitting a ceiling growth-wise, and apparently they increasingly feel the need to go abroad in order to grow. “Japan’s Facebook” Mixi, which …
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AppTraq - A New Free Facebook App (And Others) Analytic Service
Tokyo-based UserLocal Inc., which is known by its free and paid tools for website traffic analysis both for PC and mobile access in Japan, launched a new analytic tool for free specialized for social …
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Japan's No. 1 Social Network Mixi Now Boasts 20 Million Members
Japan’s No. 1 social network Mixi [JP] just announced [JP] its member base surged past 20 million, meaning the site added 1.4 million users since the end of last year [JP] and 2.6 million …
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GMO Co-Launches New Project To Incubate Social App Providers
GMO Internet, Japan’s leading provider in ISP, web server hosting, domain registration etc., kicked off a new project in order to boost potential developers to create new social apps last …
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A Japanese TV Network Testing Social Casual Game Network
One of Japan’s major television network Fuji TV announced and called for beta testers for their new online community site “Kimi to Fuji TV” [J] (“Kimi Fuji” in short) on …
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January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)
News on the latter half of January 2010 which we did not write as a dedicated article. Part 1 is here. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. METI Lottery In Exchange For Used …
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Cellphone Geo-Location Game CoroPura Gets 750,000 Users
By seeing Foursquare and Gowalla mentioned a lot on blogs and twitter, I noticed that Asiajin has not introduced how geo location mobile services are doing in Japan, where GPS capable cellphones are …




