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Osaka-based Consultancy Forms A Network Giving Entrepreneurs Many Cost-Savings & Various Supports
Tokyo-, Osaka- and Shanghai-based business consultancy providing support for start-up companies, Akinai Research Institute[J] just introduced a new program encouraging entrepreneurs in terms of financial, personnel and material resources in associat...
Mobile Factory Takes Over Photo Recognition Mobile App From J-Magic
Tokyo-based mobile tech start-up developing photo recognition apps, J-Magic[J] is now said to shut down its business and office very shortly, some sources say. The company was founded four years ago by Mr. Takuya Miyata[J] (@takmiyata[J]), the for...
KDDI To Invest USD9M On Bangladeshi Largest ISP
Japan’s second largest telecom company KDDI announced yesterday that it would invest USD9M (JPY800M) on Banglaseshi largest ISP bracNet next January. The rate of the diffusion of the Internet service in the country is as low as 2% despite ...
Shueisha And MS To Start Distributing Dragon Ball For WinMo In Japan, U.S. And Europe
Microsoft Japan announced yesterday that it would launch Windows Marketplace for Mobile in Japan next month. The company already started the service in the U.S. last month. Similarly to Apple’s AppStore and Google’s Android Marke...
All Nippon Airways To Start iPhone/iPod Connection Service On NRT-JFK Flights
Japan’s second largest airliner ANA (All Nippon Airways) announced they would start a new service on selected flights between NRT (Narita International, Tokyo) and JFK (John F. Kennedy International, New York) next February, which makes all pa...
WSJ To Launch Japanese News Portal In December
The Wall Street Journal(WSJ) announced today it would launch Japanese news portal site[J] on December 15th. This will be the company’s second non-English portal site following Chinese Edition[C] in Asia, and is bringing us a few news stori...
Japanese Online Drug Retailer Forced To Go Abroad To Serve Japanese Customers
One of Japan’s largest online drug retailers Kenko.com[J] announced it had launched a subsidiary[J] last September in Singapore, which is intended for avoiding the possible violation of the new law banning online drug sales and for serving the...
Narita Express: In-train WiFi Service To Start In Competition With Other Transit Operators
As a countermeasure against other transit operators which have been providing in-cabin WiFi service for their passengers, JR East, a railway company operating a rapid express service from/to Narita International Airport, just announced it would start...
Microsoft Innovation Award 2009: Five Tech Start-ups Nominated As Finalists
Microsoft announced the finalists of Microsoft Innovation Award 2009 last week, and there were a judging committee for the award at the company’s annual conference for system engineers in Yokohama, Tech-ED Japan 2009[J]. Microsoft assists the f...
CJIC2009: Internet-Enabled Home Appliances Come Together To Foresee Our Future
Today at Roppongi Hills, a skyscraper located in the heart of Tokyo, CNET Japan[J] held an annual tech conference called CJIC 2009 (CNET Japan Innovation Conference) where two tech-startups, Panasonic and Sony presented their new services and product...
Event Wrap-up: 400+ Geeks Applaud Web Innovators At WISH2009
More than 400 Internet users joined the event on Friday evening in Tokyo. Tokyo-based blog marketing agency Agile Media Network (AMN)[J] held Japan’s first conference having a number of tech start-ups in comprehensive perspective, titled WI...
Live Event: WISH2009 Is Just Ahead
As we reported here on Asiajin last week, Japan’s web industry’s showcase event in mid-summer, WISH2009 will be held in Tokyo today. Live streamcast starts at 7pm J.S.T. or 10am U.T.C. Kindly stand-by to witness a flood of tech ...
IVP Fund Invests In China’s Largest Mobile SNS
A Tokyo-based independent venture capital unit investing in tech start-up companies, Infinity Ventures LLP[J] announced today it had invested approximately USD2.1M (JPY200M) in WAPTX (registered in Cayman Islands) running China’s largest mobile...
Herbivorous-type Boys Scouter: What Animal Are You?
Motion Portrait, a Tokyo-based tech start-up and expert in image processing, and Gigno System Japan, a mobile app developer and a subsidiary of Tokyo FM Broadcasting[J], jointly introduced a new mobile service called “Herbivorous-type Boys Scou...
Event Preview: Web Innovation Showcase WISH2009 To Be Held
Agile Media Network, a Shibuya-based start-up company providing Japanese A-list bloggers with ad revenue opportunities and Asiajin’s adviser Motohiko Tokuriki[J] serves as the president, plans to hold an event called WISH2009[J] on Friday eveni...
To Learn Their Real Intentions, “Tokyo Nylon Girls” Debuts
On Friday, Tokyo-based website development company Level-Q[J] launched a brand new webzine named “Tokyo Nylon Girls[J]” after the synthetic fiber symbolizing a girl, because it is finer than a spider’s thread, more shiny than silk, ...
Can “Moe” Catgirl Make Our Lives So Cheerful?
Wake up in the morning, commute, work, have a lunch, work again, come back home, take a bath and go asleep - for everyday, for ever. Aren’t you bored with monotonous daily routines? A Tokyo-based company, which states creating stimulus thin...
Have Sushi At Fish Market, Then Check Pins Out
In commemoration of announcing “Favorite Places[J]” as a promotion campaign of Google Map, on Monday Google Japan[J] placed “real” red pins at several locations, which imitate mark-up symbols used on Google Map, including JR S...
Live Event: This Century’s Most Powerful Eclipse Starts In A Couple Of Hours
NHK ’s video shooting the eclipse in Iwojima, a rural island located 1,200km (750 miles) off Japan’s main islands. NHK’s video shooting the eclipse from a ferry cruising the Pacific Ocean. These two videos were carried live via hig...
MCF Announces This Year’s Award-Winning Mobile Projects (2/2)
Continued from the previous post. ———- Excellent Award (Mobile Solution Category) Won by McDonalds Japan[J] and the JV, a McDonalds’ joint venture with NTT DoCoMo, with their customer relationship marketing project by using...
Startup Showdown: Two Business Contests Announce Finalists
A couple of tech-oriented business contests announced the finalists on Friday. At first, Tokyo-based VC firm ngi Group and online game developer Aeria[J] jointly held the 1st edition of business contest for potential student entrepreneurs, which is ...
Smart.fm Fundraises USD3.37M From NTT
Japanese telecom giant NTT and Cerego Japan, an owner of a UGC-based social learning site Smart.fm(previously known as iKnow!), announced both had reached the agreement of the partnership in boosting online education business. NTT is now consider...
Two Ventures Jointly Introduce E-Publishing Business Targeting Android Users
Probably this move must prepare for the market deployment of a brand new Android phone from NTT DoCoMo[J], which is scheduled to start tomorrow, Celsys, a Shinjuku-based developer of e-book online viewer, and Voyager[J], a Shibuya-based e-book and e-...
Rakuten To Start P2P Online Political Fundraising For The First Time In Japan
Rakuten, one of Japan’s e-commerce giant, announced it would start a service enlightening voters on political participation in late July. The website accepts credit card to fundraise your money to politicians whom you support. In the previo...
CNET Japan To Be A Part Of Asahi Newspaper
CBS Interactive, which is the parent company of CNET, and Asahi Newspaper announced the two companies had agreed that the ownership of CNET Networks Japan[J] would be completely handed over to Asahi Newspaper on September 1st. CNET Networks Japan own...
Total Solar Eclipse Of July 22nd: Where Are You Tracking It?
In the morning of July 22nd (Wed), 2009, we witness this century’s most perfect solar eclipse in the regions of Central Asia, South East Asia, Japan and Micronesia. The eclipse can be observed from 9:30am to 0:30pm. J.S.T.(Japan Standard Time...
Apply Your Original gTLD To Be A Millionaire
Today at noon, the Tokyo-based independent ISP Interlink[J] started the world’s first contest inviting new global top level domains (gTLD) of your own. We used to have a limitation in choosing an option of gTLDs, but it was fully liberalized by...
