Posts Tagged ‘Japan’

When people talk about the legalization of drugs it’s usually followed by a rumination of the idea of ‘drug stores’ like beer stores.  What’s less obvious is what would happen online if it was all legal.  Even when it’s illegal, people still use the web to sell drugs, and recently two men in Japan were [...]

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Arvind Rajan, head of LinkedIn’s Asia operations, told ABC News that Japan is key market for the company because of its technologically sophisticated work force. LinkedIn hopes that the lessons learned in Japan will ultimately translate into new offerings for the rest of the world.

The Japan Tourism Agency is seriously looking at the potential of social media to help the country’s tourism industry regain visitors after the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear issues. The agency is proposing the country offer 10,000 free round trip tickets to social media users to help promote the country as a safe and exciting [...]

Jobs journey with Otogawa takes place in the mid-1980s. After he left Apple, he went on to start a new computer company called NeXT. His new company was eventually bought up by Apple, bringing him back where he started — Apple.

Japan has had an Earthquake Early Warning system in place for its residents since October 2007. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) provides residents in Japan with Earthquake Early Warnings. This is a new system that issues prompt alerts just as an earthquake starts, providing valuable seconds for people to protect themselves before strong tremors arrive.

It looks like things are finally starting to look up for the international online video crowd—Hulu has announced that they are finally going abroad, starting with a launch in Japan later this year.

When a new pop star joined Japanese Idol group AKB48 and subsequently starred in a Glico candy commercial, the fans fell in love with her instantaneously. She was beautiful—her eyes popped, her nose, lips and hair were perfect. She was too good to be true. Literally.

Japan’s NTT Docomo is partnering with Twitter to develop an alerting service that uses tweet location information. NTT DoCoMo, Twitter to develop location-based alert However, it will probably not be a targeted emergency situation alerting service as Reuters title may imply. They note that: Twitter will remove data that could identify users, before using the [...]

Google aims to eliminate the language barrier faced by users who wish to share messages of support for earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Japan with its launch of Messages for Japan, which serves the dual purpose of automatically translating posts into Japanese and helping to raise funds for the country’s recovery efforts.

Rebecca Black has been trending on Twitter for over a week, her YouTube hit ‘Friday’ has gotten over 42 million views, and she’s currently clocking in at number 39 on the iTunes top singles chart, beating out the likes of Justin Bieber, Train and Enrique Iglesias. With all this popularity, Rebecca Black has got the [...]