NHN Japan’s Line Chat App Passes 100 Million Users
As we mentioned in our post yesterday, NHN Japan’s Line application has been slowly creeping u...
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Tokyo Otaku Mode Launches News Page, Approaches 10 Million Facebook Likes
Japan-based Tokyo Otaku Mode turned many heads over the past year, mostly because of its enormous fa...
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- January 18, 2013
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Collaborative Design Platform Cacoo Goes Enterprise
Based in Fukuoka, Japan, Cacoo is an online collaborative design service which we have featured a fe...
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- January 17, 2013
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KDDI Funds Japanese App Publisher 3rdKind, Solidifies Partnership
KDDI Corporation (TYO:9433) has just announced that it will be solidifying its partnership with Japa...
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- January 17, 2013
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The Mobile Messenger War: What’s the Score?
Yesterday we pointed out that Chinese chat application WeChat (known as Weixin in Chinese) had surpa...
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- January 17, 2013
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Survey of Japanese Young Adults Shows Preference for Twitter, Facebook
We recently looked at a survey of Japanese smartphone users which gave a general indication of what ...
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- January 16, 2013
- at 12:00 pm
Startup Labs Sets its Eyes on Tech Companies in Vietnam and the Philippines
We have features as many startups from the Philippines as we should have over the past year, but the...
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- January 15, 2013
- at 11:25 pm
Princess Punt Sweets: If you Liked Angry Birds, You’ll Get a Kick Out of This Japanese Game
There’s a wacky creativity behind some Japanese-made games that I really enjoy. It’s the...
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- January 15, 2013
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M-Story: A Personal Finance App From Korea With iCloud Integration
Readers may remember that I was very enthusiastic about Japanese finance application Zaim. And while...
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- January 15, 2013
- at 2:00 pm
Singapore’s Tabsquare Raises Over $480,000 to Further Fund e-Menu System
Singapore-based e-menu startup Tabsquare has announced today that it has raised S$589,000 (or about ...
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- January 14, 2013
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Duke University Takes to Sina Weibo to Connect with Potential Students
We’ve written much in the past about how individuals and organizations outside of China are ma...
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- January 14, 2013
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Mobile Service Disruption from Great Japan Earthquake Visualized
When the tragic earthquake hit Japan back in March of 2011, mobile communications were severely disr...
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- January 11, 2013
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Russian Game Studio Pits Bees Against Bears on Bungees
If you enjoy slashy, swipy smartphones games like Cut the Rope and Fruit Ninja, you might also like ...
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- January 11, 2013
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Zendesk Celebrates 25,000 Users Worldwide, Enjoys Strong Asia Growth
Today cloud-based customer service solution provider Zendesk has announced that it now has more than...
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- January 11, 2013
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NTT Docomo To Sell New Smartphone Specifically for Pre-Teens
Japanese mobile carrier NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) announced today that it will soon be accepting preorde...
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- January 10, 2013
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DeNA Gets a Playful Rebranding, Plans to Release Social Music App in Japan
Recently we looked back on what was a pretty busy year for Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432). The intern...
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- January 10, 2013
- at 2:45 pm