DoCoMo Safe Walking App Campaign
DoCoMo campaign to prevent accidents, walking while using mobile phone, now has Safety Mode ‘droid app: http://bit.ly/1bJBRUX
Year: 2013
DeNA Launches Digital Comic Platform
DeNA announces new service area offer with free daily manga app for ‘droid and iOS, launching today! http://bit.ly/1hQgh5c
A Startup Renaissance is Building in Japan
There’s plenty of chatter about the global startup scene along with so-called ‘innovation’ opportunities and many challenges faced by players at all levels in that space. It would be easy to pepper this with a gazillion links to material describing how Japan is risk-adverse and/or has no VC base to build next-gen. companies.. bla-bla-bla. Such simplistic points, seldom well balanced, need another post to counter with a wave of my magic reality wand.
No, the tight focus today is two-fold: we are headed into a “Startup Renaissance” in Japan and, therefore, considering carefully near to mid-term road ahead with that being the case.
DoCoMo iVillage Announces Phase2
DoCoMo Innovation Village debuts their 2nd class, of 6-teams, running in the program over next 4-months http://bit.ly/1jWBrLw
Intelligent Glass – Wearable Hackathon
DoCoMo will run Wearable Hackathon on 12.07/08 with new API and “intelligent glass” terminal from CEATEC http://bit.ly/1bb7jqr
LINE Hits 300 Million User Threshold
Launched in June 2011.. LINE announces they hit 300M User mark today! Big Congrats to @moriakit team! http://bit.ly/1cTaZjt