{"id":17397,"date":"2012-05-07T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T04:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=17397"},"modified":"2012-05-07T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T04:10:59","slug":"jig-jp-mindscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/jig-jp-mindscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Movatwitter Has A New Owner: jig.jp Buys Twitter Client Operator Mindscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/jig-jp-mindscope\/jig-jp-logo-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17399\" title=\"jig jp logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/jig-jp-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/jig-jp-mindscope\/movatwitter-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17401\" title=\"movatwitter logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/movatwitter-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTokyo-based mobile tech company <a href=\"http:\/\/jig.jp\/index.html\">jig.jp<\/a> today <a href=\"http:\/\/jig.jp\/release-other\/120507.html\">announced<\/a> it acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindscope.co.jp\/\">Mindscope<\/a>, the startup behind popular Twitter client <a href=\"http:\/\/s.movatwi.jp\/\">movatwitter<\/a>.<br \/>\nmovatwitter is Japanese-only, web-based and as such usable across various platforms, including smartphones, feature phones, the PC or handheld consoles like the Sony Vita or the Nintendo 3DS. Around 2009, Twitter&#8217;s official Japanese top page featured the app in its sidebar frequently (on the PC).<br \/>\nAs a result, the service <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/which-twitter-clients-is-japan-using-here-are-the-top-20\/\">rapidly gained popularity in this country<\/a> and now boasts 1.6 million users. Buyer jig.jp isn&#8217;t disclosing terms of the deal, but Cnet Japan <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/business\/35016778\/\">says<\/a> it learned that the company paid a few million dollars for Mindscope.<br \/>\njig.jp&#8217;s core product is the so-called jig browser, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serkantoto.com\/2008\/02\/18\/mobile-browser-from-japan-jig\/\">one of the first in Japan<\/a> that made it possible to view PC sites on feature phones. The company later followed up with a smartphone browser and also offers mobile video solutions, an RSS reader, a Facebook client, and two Twitter clients (dubbed &#8220;jig twi&#8221; and &#8220;twePUB&#8221;).<br \/>\njig.jp was established in 2003, while MindScope was incorporated in January 2010 (movatwitter was available before the incorporation and is said to be Japan&#8217;s first mobile-friendly Twitter client that&#8217;s web-based).<br \/>\nUpdate:<br \/>\nOn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fshin2000\/posts\/10150820295979578\">Facebook<\/a>, movatwitter mastermind <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/fshin2000\">Shinichi Fujikawa<\/a> says he will continue to work as Chief Technology Architect while looking for new challenges as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo-based mobile tech company jig.jp today announced it acquired Mindscope, the startup behind popular Twitter client movatwitter. movatwitter is Japanese-only, web-based and as such usable across various platforms, including smartphones, feature phones, the PC or handheld consoles like the Sony Vita or the Nintendo 3DS. Around 2009, Twitter&#8217;s official Japanese top page featured the app&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/jig-jp-mindscope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Movatwitter Has A New Owner: jig.jp Buys Twitter Client Operator Mindscope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17,24],"tags":[667,1847,2322,2454,3856],"class_list":["post-17397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-news","tag-clients","tag-jig-jp","tag-mindscope","tag-movatwitter","tag-twitter","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}