Breaking: DeNA, Japanese Leading Mobile Social Networks Buying Chinese Tianxia
In this post our editor published a month ago, we were asking DeNA: What does an advanced Japanese mobile commerce and entertainment provider do in China? Despite Wang Yong, CEO of DeNA China was...
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Japanese Social Gaming Platforms: Chinese Developers Jonesing to Get In
[This post was written in Chinese by Netease’s journalist Snake Chen, a three-time participant at Infinity Venture Summit (IVS). He covered the start of Rekoo in China firsthand, as well as the opening...
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Baidu's Localisation Problem in Japan
I was talking to a friend yesterday. He told me, just as Google fails to localize in China, Baidu faces the same localization problem when it develops the Japanese search engine market. The Reasons:...
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GREE Is Targeting At Global Mobile Social Gaming Industry, Interviewed by...
GREE, founded by Yoshikazu Tanaka in Feb, 2004, is now the largest SNS platform in Japan. The company is listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange in June, 2010 when it has >20 millions...
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The Latest Trends in Japanese Mobile Market, Commented By Serkan Toto of...
Japanese mobile market is far ahead of the rest of world, so we always look at it for the guidance as it may imply the trend of our local market. But the question we’ve never asked but might be more...
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Infinity Venture Partners Akio Tanaka Talks About Investment Strategy From...
I recently had the opportunity to interview Akio Tanaka, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Infinity Venture Partners from Japan. I asked him about his background, investment philosophy and if there is...
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Sina Weibo Teams up with Find Japan for Local Expansion
Jun.28, on the press conference in Tokyo, Find Japan announced that it would partner with Sina Corp. to market its Twitter-like Weibo service in Japan. Sina will authorize Find Japan as the exclusive...
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5 Very Cool Japanese Mobile Technology Companies from Mobile World Congress
Japanese are known for their quirky creativity and advanced technology. When I visited the Japan Pavilion at MWC, I had the chance to see what bizarre mobile product ideas are coming out of the Land of...
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Amusing (But Serious) iPad Receptionist App Released, Real Receptionists Beware!
When I was in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress I discovered some very interesting Japanese mobile apps and reported on it here “5 Very Cool Japanese Mobile Technology Companies from Mobile World...
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LINE Reached 40 Millions Users Worldwide, Now No.1 In Japan
Today at Japan’s Infinity Venture Summit (IVS), NHN from Korea, the maker of LINE the world-wide popular mobile messaging application announced that LINE has reached 40 millions users in the global...
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Japanese Don Quijote Chain Store Adopted PanoPlaza Technology to Build...
PanoPlaza, one of the winners of 2012 OpenWebAsia Awards, is a Japanese startup providing the technology that transforms online store to 3D panorama virtual shop to resembles the shopping experience in...
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App Monetization Service Metaps Announced DirectTAP, a Freemium Ad Network...
Tokyo-headquartered app monetization service Metaps released DirectTAP, an ad network that connects advertisers and app developers with zero commission. Highlights of DirectTAP are: 1) 100% Revenue...
View ArticleJapan’s Room Rental Searching Site CHINTAI Launched New Room Searching Product
Japanese tech company Mujuryoku rolled out Search Rod, a new room searching concept model, for room rental searching site CHINTAI at Tokyo Designers Week 2013. The room dowsing service can...
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SparkProfit invites everyone to make predictions on financial markets and...
Spark Profit is a platform for users, being professionals or not, to make predictions on financial markets and earn cash rewards. Those who are good at making predictions will receive weekly incomes....
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Metaps Platform Apps Surpass 1 Billion Downloads
Tokyo-headquartered app monetization service Metaps announced that the total downloads of apps on the Android monetization platform “metaps” has surpassed 1 billion. Metaps is an Android monetization...
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AliPay Now Available on Another Japanese E-commerce Giant Rakuten
AliPay, the payment arm of Chinese Internet titan Alibaba, reached cooperation with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to added AliPay as a payment option for purchases on Rakuten Global Market, the...
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LINE Buddies Up with Wandoujia, Bidding Farewell to Qihoo 360
Chinese mobile search service Wandoujia announced today it has partnered with LINE, which will oversee the services and marketing activities of the Korean messaging app in Chinese mainland. In this...
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Sony Sets Up Joint Ventures with Chinese Partner to Release PS Consoles in China
In addition to Microsoft which launched its flagship Xbox One in China this April, Sony also sets eye on the lucrative market after Chinese authorities lifted the 13-year ban on game consoles. The...
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Facebook Dating App “pairs” Promotes Online-Dating In Japan And Plans Major...
In the digital age, push notifications are the first thing many people look at when they wake up. It makes sense, then, for some people to make friends and find love ones through apps. The...
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KDDI Open Innovation Fund Invests in Four US Startups, Will Bring Them to...
KDDI Open Innovation Fund (KOIF), managed by Japanese venture capital Global Brain Corporation, announced that it has invested a total of 800 million yen (US$8 million) in four US startups. Global...
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