Japan Internet News

EverConnect launches THE Social Communication Platform “EverConnect.me Beta” and also announces the successful Angel Round investments of US$200K

Sugolog Inc. launches as part of its multilingual social media marketing support business the English language information media SugoJapan, a tool to help spread Japan's Pop & Tech culture.

Tokyo-based Samurai Factory announced that they have donated a total of over 70,000 manga and picture books throughout the areas affected by the earthquake/tsunami of March 11th in Tohoku Japan

Operator of web creation platform Ninja Tools with over 2.5 million users, Tokyo-based Samurai Factory debuts SSP service Ninja AdMax with RTB capability to optimize advertising revenue for web publishers across all categories in Japan

Tokyo-based recruitment firm Wahl & Case is proud to announce the successful placement of Kenji Yamamoto as Chief Revenue Officer and Japan President of Tokyo-based startup translation technology company myGengo.

Cybozu StartUps Unveils DrCrop, Social Photomontage Service on Android Market

A Web Town anunciou hoje o lançamento de um serviço onde o usuário entra o número do celular e como resposta recebe o nome da operadora do celular. O servico é válido para celulares do Japão.

Clipart AC is the English version of the Japanese website called "Illust-AC", that offers a free illustration download system (www.ac-clipart.com adACHIEVE Ltd.). Clipart AC has been just renewed with a completely new design, navigation and function.

The number of scanned products will soon reach one million! To celebrate the creation of one million KANOJO, Barcode KANOJO is launching the One Million and 111,111th KANOJO Campaign.

While Facebook Inc. prepares to possibly go public in 2012 with an IPO, the author of a new book on creating online businesses predicts that successful internet startups will become even more common in the coming years.

myGengo has opened the API Lab, a space where developers can win a total of $45,000 for experimenting with their human translation API and creating plugins, better connecting customers with a global team of 1500 qualified translators.

ALOBE Ltd. (HeadOffice: OSAKA, JAPAN,CEO: SangYun SHIN) launched the marketplace website called [Re-COUPON]. This site allows users to sell and buy COUPONS that they bought at daily deal sites like GROUPON, living Social or other similar services.

We are pleased to announce that Nobot Inc. which runs "AdMaker," has partnered with Medialets, the most widely deployed cross platform rich media ad provider for mobile, to provide a mobile rich media ad platform for “JAD”.

BarcodeKANOJO.com Scan the barcode to generate your virtual girlfriend.

A multimedia application that has features of an e-book viewer, a video player, and a web archiver is now released.

Magajin.com, a Manga and Anime drawing community announces Wacom x Magajin Global Illustration Competition for aspiring illustrators from all over the world.

Magajin.com is live, a global community for illustration and Manga, connecting east and west through the universal language of art. Magajin empowers creators with a power of social translation.

Join us as we launch the Beta Release of the latest Bilingual Online Project Marketplace JExpert.jp! And Win in the process! JExpert.jp is giving away 5 Apple iPads and 10 pokens to the lucky winners by June 30th 2010.

Terrie Lloyd, CEO of LINC Media, Japan's leading systems integration and incubation firm will be speaking at the CCH Seminar in Tokyo on April 19th 2010.

Infoplayer is the web site which is the original ideal situation of information sending. InfoPlayer is new style information community which starts from one image. The user can upload any information wherever in the image.

Tokyo-based multilingual online video service launches renewed website

Cloud Gate Single Sign-on realizes enterprise grade security on the Cloud. Elastic Computing model allows scale-up of hundreds of thousands of users easily and inexpensively without compromising security or reliability.

Beare Consulting introduced a new suite of services for foreign company who plans to start business in Japan, 2nd largest market in the world. Beare Consulting has already 14 years experience in this field.

GOGA, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) released a web tool "peatea" which enables you to bookmark any position of a web page.

Samurai Factory will send a team from Tokyo to the New York Anime Festival to present the service update of Manga Chat, a free online chatting service utilizing manga characters

GoCooh Corporation (Headquarters:Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, CEO:Yusuke Shibata) will open Dhaka Branch as of Septemer 1st 2009.

Samurai Factory reports that usage of IE6 still heavy amongst Japanese users of their Ninja Access Analytics service

"SNS Contact - Friends' Photos on Your Phone Contacts" which is an iPhone application which enables you to register your friends' SNS public profile photos to your iPhone contacts.

A Web Town lança o primeiro motor de busca especializado da comunidade brasileira no Japão, composta por cerca de 300 mil brasileiros, a maior terceira no exterior após os EUA e Paraguai.

Sprasia released new web application “Rate It!”- an application to create video review of favorite items.

New Silverlight powered player to watch streaming television from around the world on PC and Mac

OCLCOM Inc. will start "TOKYOBID", a site which provides delegated bidding services to overseas bidders wishing to participate in Japanese online auctions from Nov 25th, 2008.

Japanese Icon site Icongator.com set to release its new traffic sign con set. Matsumoto Seichi says "We wanted to give something unique back to those who are collecting and using vista icons."

Datacraft Co., Ltd. recently announced the launch of its English-language View Search Hokkaido Summit Version web tool, a unique online photo gallery of Hokkaido, the Japanese island set to host this summer’s G8 Summit.

KingFish communication launches interactive social map for the web.

A new Japanese music website supporting artists who aspire to make a major debut and to perform on international stages one day

Saloob, Inc. has released the world's first on-demand Desktop As A Service (DAAS) thin Client solution targeting IT Professionals, Educational Institutions, SMB's and large Enterprise under the VZClones service brand.