Posts Tagged: Japan


Gree-Yoshikazu-Tanaka

GREE: The Mobile Gaming Social Network In An Infographic

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of te...

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  • November 11, 2011
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SkySQL Partners with Ashisuto in Japan, Challenges Oracle For MySQL Enterprise Market Share (Exclusive)

SkySQL Ab has partnered with K.K Ashisuto, a 40 year-old company which specializes in software distr...

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  • November 11, 2011
  • at 12:00 pm
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my365po

My365 = Photo-Taking + Calendar, Result? 100,000 Downloads in 10 days

My365 is a new photo app in Japan. It has similar functions to Instagram – social sharing and ...

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  • November 9, 2011
  • at 9:04 pm
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DeNA Partners With Daum To Promote Mobage In South Korea

DeNA (TYO:2432) is moving full steam ahead in recent months. And today we learned from the mobile g...

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  • November 8, 2011
  • at 5:57 pm
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kicksend

File-sending Service Kicksend Gets Funding from Japan-based Digital Garage

Japan-based investment and incubation firm Digital Garage announced today that it has invested in fi...

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  • November 7, 2011
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gree

GREE To Invest 2 Billion Yen in SEA Start-ups, 1 Billion Yen in Indonesia

Last week, we reported that GREE formed GREE Ventures, an investment partnership which will be inves...

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  • November 7, 2011
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Tokyo’s Livesense To IPO With The Youngest CEO Ever In Japanese IPO History

Earlier this week, Shibuya-based web portal company Livsense was approved to go IPO on the Mothers, ...

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  • November 6, 2011
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Online_and_Underground

Passengers Can Go Online in 84% of Asia’s Major Subways [REPORT]

A report from New Cities Foundation says that passengers in most (60 percent) of the world’s large...

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  • November 4, 2011
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gree-vs-dena

The “Office Race” Continues… GREE Looks To Set Up Shop in Dubai

Whenever DeNA has a new office or overseas partnership, GREE seems to have one too (and vice versa)....

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  • November 11, 2011
  • at 3:28 pm
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Vending Machine Check-in

How Coca-Cola is Gamifying Vending Machines in Japan

Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) wants its customers in Japan to get to know their favorite vending machines a li...

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  • November 10, 2011
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kobo

Japanese Online Retail Giant Rakuten Set to Acquire eBook Service Kobo

Japanese online retailer Rakuten announced today that it has agreed to acquire eReading platform Kob...

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  • November 9, 2011
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Japan Post

eBay to Partner with Japanese Postal Service To Help Sellers Ship

Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun citing unnamed sources reports that eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) and Japan Post are ...

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  • November 8, 2011
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Twitter languages in Asia

Which Asian Languages are Spoken Most on Twitter? [MAP]

Thanks to Tomomi Sasaki (coincidentally of AQ, whose AQ Lift we recently featured) for the tip on th...

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  • November 7, 2011
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The Silicon Valley Trend That’s Spreading to Japan

Earlier last week, Japan’s social network Mixi announced it had acquired Tokyo-based start-up ...

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  • November 7, 2011
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Mobile Gaming Company DeNA Finalizes Purchase of Baseball Team

One of Japan’s worst kept secrets, DeNA’s (TYO:2432) plan to purchase the Yokohama Bay Stars bas...

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  • November 4, 2011
  • at 5:37 pm
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Capcom Thinks Snoopy Can Outperform Smurfs on iOS

In its second quarter briefing Japanese game developer Capcom (TYO:9697) noted that it hopes its upc...

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  • November 3, 2011
  • at 3:15 pm
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