GREE and Yahoo Japan to Co-Sponsor Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid
GREE (TYO:3632) and Yahoo Japan (TYO:4689) have announced today that the companies will co-sponsor T...
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Cygames’ Rage of Bahamut Surpasses 10 Million Users Worldwide
Japanese gaming publisher Cygames has announced that its hit mobile social game Rage of Bahamut has ...
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- December 21, 2012
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As Chat App Wars Intensify, KakaoTalk Makes a Push in Japan
Recently we’ve written much about the success of NHN Japan’s Line, both in its home mark...
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- December 20, 2012
- at 10:00 pm
Nokia No Longer King of Mobile as Samsung Set to Ship More in 2012
According to forecasted numbers from analysts at iSuppli, 2012 will see Korean manufacturer Samsung ...
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- December 20, 2012
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GREE Releases Mobile Chat Application in Selected Regions
The folks over on Techwave are pointing out this morning that Japanese mobile social gaming giant GR...
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- December 20, 2012
- at 9:18 am
Separating the Men from the Boys in Japan’s Online Social Scene
The folks over at Looops Communications recently put together a good overview of some of the major s...
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- December 19, 2012
- at 10:00 pm
2012 in Review According to Facebook
We recently mentioned Google’s end-of-year Zeitgeist presentation, which summarized the hottes...
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- December 19, 2012
- at 1:30 pm
Cooliris Launches its Photo App in China With Renren Integration
The folks over at Cooliris have been pretty busy of late, recently pushing a new update for its iOS ...
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- December 19, 2012
- at 9:00 am
‘Line Play’ Virtual World Comes Out of Beta With a Million Users
NHN’s Japan has officially brought it’s Line Play virtual world application out of beta,...
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- December 18, 2012
- at 3:35 pm
Japanese Startup Giftee Has Free Chicken for Your Facebook Friends
Last year you may recall that we featured Japanese startup Giftee, a service that lets you send real...
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- December 18, 2012
- at 12:00 pm
Animated Gifs Made Easy With MotionGraph for Android
Earlier in the year I wrote about Sony’s Million Moments, an app that sort of struck me by sur...
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- December 17, 2012
- at 7:30 pm
5 Great iOS Apps from Japan in 2012
There have been lots of great applications to emerge from Japan over the past year. And while I canâ...
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- December 17, 2012
- at 10:30 am
7 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week (Dec 16, 2012)
This week was a surprisingly busy one in China technology news, with Apple finally dropping its new ...
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- December 16, 2012
- at 9:00 pm
Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Dec. 15]
There was lots of interesting tech news going down in Asia this week, and particularly in China. The...
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- December 15, 2012
- at 12:20 pm
Google Ties up with Kstartup to Support South Korean Entrepreneurs
Over on the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) blog today, the company is highlighting entrepreneurship in South K...
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- December 14, 2012
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Japan’s DeNA and Korea’s KT Corporation Partner for Mobile Games Exchange
Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432) announced today that it will be teaming up with KT Corporation (NYSE:K...
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- December 14, 2012
- at 11:55 am