Aimed at Japan’s Most Stylish Shoppers, Muse & Co Raises $3.4 Million
The fashion-loving Japanese startup Muse & Co has raised 350 million yen, about $3.4 million, in series B funding for its fledgling e-co...
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Attach and Sniff: Japan’s ChatPerf Lets Your iPhone Emit Smells (VIDEO)
Using a smartphone is a very sensual and immersive experience, but so far our sense of smell has been left out of the fun. Not any more. A J...
Zoolook Brings Together Fashionistas, Fashion Bloggers, and Brands – All in One App
We’ve seen all kinds of social fashion startups crop up in Asia in the past couple of years. One of the newest is Zoolook, created by a te...
Reep Remembers The Photos You Took A Year Ago
Photos become more meaningful when you look at them in relation to time. Reep is a made-in-Japan mobile app that remembers the photos you to...
Playing Around with Videogram’s New iPhone App
Will Bohn is an entrepreneur working in Tokyo for a digital marketing firm. He loves startups, Asia, and all things tech. We’ve been f...
Japan Plans New Super-Fast Supercomputer
In news that is totally awesome, Japan’s science ministry has announced it plans to build a supercomputer by 2020 that is 100 times fa...
Line is Growing Faster Than Ever, Now Up to 150 Million Users
Far from nearing a saturation point, the messaging app Line is actually growing faster than ever. Having previously taken nearly seven month...
Japan’s GungHo Hits $10 Billion Market Cap
There is no end to GungHo's Puzzle and Dragons hype in Japan, it seems.
The Growth Story and Future of Mobile Chat App Giant LINE
Popular mobile messaging chat app LINE was created by NHN Japan inspired by the tragic earthquake that happened in Japan in 2011. When SMS a...
GREE Shuts Down China Branch (Update: CONFIRMED)
Update: GREE has replied and this is the company’s official statement on the matter: We are reviewing our business to optimize our glo...
CyberAgent Gets Into the Crowdfunding Business in Japan
Japan’s CyberAgent (TYO:4751) has burst onto Japan’s crowdfunding scene with the launch of its new CyberAgent Crowd Funding plat...
Puzzle & Dragons Maker GungHo Reaches $15 Billion Market Cap, Now Worth More Than Nintendo
Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on Twitter and his blog. This article is re...
Rebright Partners: Our New Fund Can Grow the Southeast Asian Market
Rebright Partners, a Japan-based incubator and one of the parties behind Indonesian VC firm Batavia Incubator has recently launched its new ...
DeNA Hits Record $2 Billion in Revenues for 2012, But Quarterly Profits and Income Slip Again
Japan-based social gaming platform DeNA (TYO:2432) has just rolled out its Q4 and full-year 2012 financials. After an expensive previous qua...
Line Targets Kids With Toy Smartphone (PICS)
Together with Takaratomy, the popular mobile chat application is targeting kids with its upcoming Line toy smartphone.
MoneyTree Launches as a Mint for Japan, Connects With 30 Japanese Banks
MoneyTree, a Tokyo-based startup, has just launched its iOS finance app today. The service is basically a Mint.com for Japan, though the big...
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