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Sina Weibo Teams up with Find Japan for Local Expansion
[Translate] 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 partner to verrify celebrity Weibo accounts in Japan, which means Sina weibo officially taps into Japanese market. The service is set...
Infinity Venture Partners Akio Tanaka Talks About Investment Strategy From Japan to China
[Translate] 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 another internet bubble growing. From Adobe to VC Akio was formerly the CTO of Macromedia Japan. When headquarters in the US he saw how...
The Latest Trends in Japanese Mobile Market, Commented By Serkan Toto of TechCrunch Japan
[Translate] 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 interesting to know about is what is the latest trends in Japanese mobile market....
GREE Is Targeting At Global Mobile Social Gaming Industry, Interviewed by TechNode
[Translate] 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 users. By end of 2010, GREE’s registered users have reached 23.83 millions and it has around 282 employees...
Baidu's Localisation Problem in Japan
[Translate] 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: The Japanese has a different preference in their search from the Chinese. One thing they like to search over the...
Breaking: DeNA, Japanese Leading Mobile Social Networks Buying Chinese Tianxia
[Translate] 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 telling us: We (DeNA) will not be able to copy our success. We are here to meet friends and share...
Emerging Open Source Translation Projects in Japan
[Translate] Mr. Mochio Umeda, a Silicon Valley-based Japanese IT-business consultant and author of several successive best-seller books, which made him one of the most influential voices regarding the Japanese web, recently allowed anyone to translate his latest book “Watching Shogi ‘the Japanese Chess’ From Silicon Valley” into any language without a permission from him or...
Baidu’s Adventure in Japan
[Translate] Perhaps the most discussed topic during my dissertation trip in China was Baidu’s decision to enter the Japanese search engine market in January 2008. It was the first thing that came to mind of just about everyone I spoke with on the topic of my study. Following a nearly year long study of Japanese-language...
Kisekae: The Dress-up Handset
[Translate] Today, the mobile phone is not just a device with functionality but is also a fashion accessory. We see many boys and girls who decorate their handsets with stickers, cover cases and beeds. Besides the device’s physical appearance, people also customize their wallpaper (main display on handset) with their favorite pictures. That same trend...
Tonchidot in TechCrunch50: A presentation worth learning from
[Translate] TechCrunch50 was successfully held. We know who the winners are. But today let’s talk about one of them that didn’t win. Tonchidot generated alot of fanfare in TechCrunch even though they didn’t end up on the podium. Well, to start with, the idea is awesome. Geotagging and using the broad viewport of iPhone as...
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