{"id":8728,"date":"2010-06-03T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T10:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2010-06-03T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T10:07:55","slug":"four-companies-encourage-developers-to-monetize-apps-with-new-in-app-purchase-platform-and-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/four-companies-encourage-developers-to-monetize-apps-with-new-in-app-purchase-platform-and-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Companies Encourage Developers To Monetize Apps With New In-app Purchase Platform And Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/BestCreate_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8741\" title=\"Best Create's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/BestCreate_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/HikariTsushin_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8743\" title=\"Hikari Tsushin's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/HikariTsushin_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"34\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SBIInvestment_Logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8742\" title=\"SBI Investment's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SBIInvestment_Logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Cyber Agent Investment's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/cai.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"39\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FutureofApps_banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8738\" title=\"Banner: Future of Apps\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FutureofApps_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTokyo-based real affiliate service provider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcreate.jp\">Best Create[J]<\/a>, Japan&#8217;s largest telecom product distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hikari.co.jp\/en\/\">Hikari Tsushin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cai.co.jp\/english\/\">Cyber Agent Investment<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbinvestment.co.jp\">SBI Investment[J]<\/a> launched a new project called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jisedai-appli.com\/\">Future of Apps[J]<\/a>&#8221; last month, which is expected to collect new app ideas and will invest USD110,000 at the maximum in each of selected promising ones.\u00a0\u00a0 The project will also set up a new in-app purchase platform for the Android handsets, which is aimed at making it easier for app developers to make money with the apps.<br \/>\nAs for good ideas chosen by the project from all collected entries, a team of four companies will support financially and physically those who have invented the ideas to develop apps and to promote by introducing them at 6,400 &#8220;REAL&#8221; stores and restaurants participating in the Best Create&#8217;s real affiliate network.<br \/>\nAt the kick-off conference to be held on this coming Friday, the team will start collecting new app idea entries from smartphone users and app developers, and it is due on July 9. \u00a0 Then, the team will help the inventors in many ways to release their apps in September.<br \/>\nThe kick-off conference including venture capitalist Yuji Akaba&#8217;s keynote speech followed by a panel discussion with famous journalists and smartphone app entrepreneurs will be also televised live on Ustream starting on Friday at 7pm, J.S.T.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" id=\"utv457942\" name=\"utv_n_569812\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoplay=false&#038;locale=ja_JP\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/flash\/video\/7432345\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo-based real affiliate service provider Best Create[J], Japan&#8217;s largest telecom product distributor Hikari Tsushin, Cyber Agent Investment and SBI Investment[J] launched a new project called &#8220;Future of Apps[J]&#8221; last month, which is expected to collect new app ideas and will invest USD110,000 at the maximum in each of selected promising ones.\u00a0\u00a0 The project will also&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/four-companies-encourage-developers-to-monetize-apps-with-new-in-app-purchase-platform-and-investments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Companies Encourage Developers To Monetize Apps With New In-app Purchase Platform And Investments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[417,805,1292,1534,3231],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-news","tag-best-create","tag-cyber-agent-investment","tag-future-of-apps","tag-hikari-tsushin","tag-sbi-investment","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}