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DeNA Operating Result

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:01:19 -0700

DeNA Inc. , a provider social gaming mobile website"mobile game town", e-commerce and payment service provider, today reported second quarter operating results. For the three months ended Sep 30, 2007, revenue increased 114% to 6.399 billion Ye...

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MacDonald Mobile Coupon

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:36:07 -0700

MacDonald's mobile coupon subscriber has marked 5MM according to its press release. http://www.mcd-holdings.co.jp/news/2007/company/20070928.html Since they have launched the coupon website in 2003, they record 1M subscriber in Oct 2006. Service ...

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Voice Android "HATSUNEMIKU"

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:18:02 -0700

Voice Android "HATSUNEMIKU" has been creating the buzz in Japan. Software has been released from Crypton Future Media, Inc in the end of last August, and has already sold more than 15,000 copies. Price is 15,750Yen (approx.$130) With the softwa...

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T-Shirt Design Competition Widget

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:28:57 -0700

Widget from UNIQLO for T-shirt Design competition. http://ut.uniqlo.com/utgp/en/about/award2008 From the 13,206 designs that were submitted from around the world, 1,000 will be shortlisted by the UT Selection Committee. Which will be shown on th...

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Creative Agency KAYAC

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:33:18 -0700

KAYAC is a unique creative agency. They have a outstanding creativiy and technology to make unique and fun internet services(specially widget!). KAYAK released 7 new projects in July 7th named "777Project". Top Page Renewal http://www.kayac.com/ ...

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UNIQLOCK

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:52:08 -0700

Widget base promotion website from UNIQLO. http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/ Clock hit the notes and Uniqlo fashioned dancer get into the swing of it. Their new feature "WORLD UNIQLOCK" will be released soon, which will surely connect the blogger us...

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Strategy of Japanese Mobile Carrier

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:09:30 -0700

Difusion rate of mobile phone in Japan has reached to 85% in 2006, according to the Cabinet office research. Which cause share competition between NTT Docomo(53M), KDDI(28M) and SoftBank Mobile(Former Vodafone). Since Docomo has released "imode(i...

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"It's not the one ROBOT"

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:13:40 -0700

"It's not the one ROBOT" (KOREJYANAI ROBOT) When you give this to your child for their birthday present, Kids will yell out for help saying "IT'S NOT THE ONE(I WANTED)!!!" Do you have these kind of experiences? Sure you do have, and your kids sh...

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Mobile Internet ad is about x2 bigger in Japan compare with US in 2007

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:14:37 -0700

Following table shows that market size of mobile ad. in Japan and USA (US$/mil) 　　　 2006　 2007　 2008　 2009　 2010 Japan　1,925　2,278　2,628　2,893　3,120 USA 　　421　　903　1,602　2,395　3,415 As you can see, Japan is about x2 larger market right now bu...

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SNS over mobile is very popular even for Mixi

nobody@vox.com(Toshi Namba) — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:13:24 -0700

Mixi, the most popular SNS site in Japan now has over 10M users and more people are using mobile phones to access it. (by the way, i understand that myspace has over 180M users...so compare with that mixi is a very small player....) According to ...

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