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FeelPress: A Social App from Japan for Stuff That Matters to You

FeelPress is a fun social sharing app from Japan-based imonomi inc which launches today. It’s ...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 23, 2012
  • at 9:15 am
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NHN Japan Adds Coupon Feature (and More) to Line Chat App

NHN Japan has been so busy with its Line app/platform recently that we can hardly keep up with the u...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 22, 2012
  • at 4:15 pm
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Smartphone Adoption to Reach 60 percent in South Korea

Korean news agency Yonhap news is reporting that South Korea’s smart phone user base is about ...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 22, 2012
  • at 11:00 am
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Japan’s Mixi Set to Launch Subscription-based Fashion Commerce Service

Yesterday Japanese social networking giant Mixi (TYO:2121) went live with a teaser page for a new su...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 21, 2012
  • at 3:00 pm
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Maxthon Releases Mobile Browser for iPhone

China-based Maxthon, recently released its desktop browser for Mac OS X. And now the company has fol...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 21, 2012
  • at 11:10 am
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Rovio’s Angry Birds Making Nests Around Asia

A few moments ago, Rovio launched a new Angry Birds collaboration for its Facebook game with rock ba...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 20, 2012
  • at 8:22 pm
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Chinese Gaming Giant The9 Making Mobile Moves, Thinking More Global

Having already established itself as a powerhouse in the PC online gaming space, Chinese gaming comp...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 17, 2012
  • at 9:51 pm
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Sina Says Weibo Monetization Dependent on User Growth

Chinese internet company Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) has just released its second-quarter financial report, w...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 17, 2012
  • at 10:30 am
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NHN Japan’s Line App Gets Boost From New Features

NHN Japan’s Line application, which recently surpassed 50 million users worldwide, has just re...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 16, 2012
  • at 10:15 pm
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With Brisk Business at Home, China’s Lenovo Reports $8 Billion in Quarterly Sales

Last month we cited figures from IDC which indicated that Chinese PC maker Lenovo (HKG:0992) is pois...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 16, 2012
  • at 6:30 pm
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ComScore: In Asia, Japan Watches Most Online Videos

Research firm ComScore has some interesting metrics about how the world watches online video, claimi...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 16, 2012
  • at 12:10 pm
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Sony’s Mobile Gaming Service, PlayStation Mobile, Coming This Fall

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it will be launching PlayStation Mobile this fall, br...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 15, 2012
  • at 7:30 pm
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LG Surpasses 5 Million LTE Handsets Sold

Korean manufacturer LG Electronics (066570:KS) announced today that it has surpassed the milestone o...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 15, 2012
  • at 12:15 pm
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Average Global Internet Connection Improves, Still Dwarfed by Asian Speed Demons [Map]

Akamai recently released its Q1 2012 State of the Internet report, showing key insights about intern...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 14, 2012
  • at 11:00 pm
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Singapore Serving as Springboard for Japanese Companies Looking Abroad

There’s an interesting piece from Kyoto news today about how many Japanese companies are incre...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 14, 2012
  • at 4:08 pm
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Japan’s Softbank Tops 30 Million Mobile Subscribers

A few days ago new numbers from the Telecommunications Carriers Association in Japan showed that Sof...

By Rick Martin

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  • August 13, 2012
  • at 3:20 pm