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Breaking: Japan's 2nd Telco KDDI Reportedly To Sell iPhone5
Nikkei Business Online is reporting [J], according to people familiar with the matter, the nation’s second carrier KDDI has an arrangement with Apple on selling iPhone in Japan. In Japan, iPhone …
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Mobile Subscribers In Japan: The Latest Numbers
The Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA) of Japan has released a set of statistics on Japan’s mobile market today, showing that the country had 122.44 million cell phone subscribers …
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Mobage Company DeNA Rumored To Buy A Pro Baseball Team, PR Denied
According to Sankei Sports [J], DeNA, known by running a big social gaming network Mobage, is one the list of companies who are talking with TBS, a Japanese TV network company who owns Yokohama Bay …
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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Donates $120 million In Quake Aid, Live On Ustream
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is known to like to think big, and the announcement he made today is no exception: Son said that he will donate a total of 10 billion yen ($120 million) of his personal …
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Japan To Get Disney Android
Disney Mobile announced [J] to release new Android 2.2 smartphone in February. Disney Mobile is one of few successful MVNOs in Japan. Since 2008, they sell Disney feature phones [J] using Japan #3 …
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CyberAgent Rumored To Buy Off Tokyo-Based Baseball Team Yakult Swallows
Japanese sports newspaper Nikkan Sports reported [J] on December 4th, Saturday morning that Tokyo Yakult Swallows, one of 12 professional baseball team in Japan’s top league Nippon Professional …
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Softbank Sends 6 Walking WiFi Ninja To Comiket To Cover Up Cellphone Demand
The 78th Comiket(Comic Market), the world’s largest self-published comic book fair, was held again this summer in Tokyo bay side. This summer, there were 35,000 groups had booths and 560,000 …
