Yahoo! Japan
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Mixi Finally Shed 'Beta' With Mixi Appli
Mixi [J] (Asiajin articles), the biggest social network service in Japan, starts their OpenSocial compliant application platform Mixi Appli officially opened to every Mixi user on PC. Mixi Appli …
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Rakuten To Start P2P Online Political Donations For The First Time In Japan
Rakuten, one of Japan’s e-commerce giants, announced it would start a service enlightening voters on political participation in late July. The website accepts credit cards to donate your money …
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Election And Internet In Japan
Agile Media Network held a conference “Internet Changes Election?” [JP] on April 24th. Statesmen and NPOs discussed about the use of Internet for election in Japan. Shin Itoh of Japan …
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Monetize Hacks #3 Report (part 1)
24th night at Roppongi Hills, the third Monetize Hacks meeting was held by some web directors from Livedoor and Hatena by welcoming 120 web directors and entrepreneurs in and around Tokyo. The first …
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Time Trip on Tokyo Decade
Lat Long Lab is an experimental services showcase by Yahoo! Japan’s map division (Alps-sha before Yahoo’s bought). Their new service Tokyo decade shows you two maps of the same point in …
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Yahoo! Japan Launches TV Version Site
“Terebi-ban (TV version) Yahoo! Japan” is a new variation of Yahoo! Japan for home TV browsers. Left side-bar menu has only 7 items, news, weather, sports, astrology, TV programme, …
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Two Broadband Video Streaming Sites To Be Merged To Survive
Yahoo Japan[J] announced Tuesday it would buy 51% stake in Gyao[J] which is the free broadband video streaming service and has been wholly owned by Japan’s largest cable music broadcaster USEN. …
