Startup
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No. Of Japanese Startup Funds Exceeds Last Year In 9 Months
Japan Venture Research Report said [J] that the venture capital funds for start-ups are established 17 from January to September 2011, which is already more than 2010’s 15. The funds investing …
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myGengo Opens $45,000 API Lab To Support Third Party Developers
Having raised $585,000 in angel investments this summer, Tokyo-based human translation start-up myGengo has set aside $45,000 to support third-party developers with their new API Lab. The API Lab is …
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WISH2010 Event Report - 15 Presenters And The Winner
After the panel of three key persons in Japanese social networks, there were 15 presenters demo, 10 from organizers’ choice and 5 fans’ vote out of 32 nominees. TwiTraq A Twitter analysis …
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Top 50 Of Japan's Most Rapidly Growing Tech Startups. GREE Is No. 1.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has compiled a list of the 50 fastest-growing tech firms in Japan [JP, PDF], and it’s quite interesting. The so-called Nippon Technology FAST50 was released yesterday …
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Lunarr Closes Company With Its Two Unique Web Services
An unique web startup founded and run by a successful Japanese entrepreneur in Portland, Oregon, declared its end of services this month. Notice LUNARR will be discontinuing our Elements and Themes …
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Web Chat Service Lingr Shutting Down
A web based chat service Lingr announced its closing down at the end of May 2009. We’re sad to announce that Lingr will be shutting down on May 31, 2009. It’s been great pleasure that so …
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Executives of Tokyo startup SUN arrested
Executives of SUN, a Tokyo-based “Second Life”-related startup company, have been arrested under suspicion of facilitating the escape of another man wanted by police. The suspect, a …
