foo.log announced that it renewed design and features of its food-focused lifelog service, FoodLog, including Twitter linkage.
FoodLog analyzes a meal by just posting photos of food. It tells you whether you take well balanced meal and allow you to manage your physical condition, diet, and improve your food life.
The image analysis technology is originally developed in University of Tokyo which licenses the patent to the company.
Venture Now 11/8/2010
Nov 8, 2010
Nov 5, 2010
Netmile launches research service in China partnering with 92dp.com
92dp.com has video review about goods which 2.43 million users actually uses under their own names. When its users login to the site, questionnaire is displayed.
Target customers are government offices and consumer goods makers which are using research service of Netmile in Japan.
Venture Now 11/4/2010
Target customers are government offices and consumer goods makers which are using research service of Netmile in Japan.
Venture Now 11/4/2010
Bilcom integrates operations with digital marketing company in China
Bilcom announced that it agreed on management integration with Shanghai YMG China. Bilcom sets up 100% subsidiary, BILCOM China in April 2011, and transfers digital marketing business unit of Shanghai YMG China to BILCOM China.
Bilcom is a PR agency with strength in digital marketing. The company said that the integration with Shanghai YMG China will allow them to provide digital solution utilizing social media in China. Also it plans to provide digital solutions to not only Japanese customers, but also Chinese or Western customers.
Bilcom is a PR agency with strength in digital marketing. The company said that the integration with Shanghai YMG China will allow them to provide digital solution utilizing social media in China. Also it plans to provide digital solutions to not only Japanese customers, but also Chinese or Western customers.
CyberAgent announced Ameba becomes a cash cow
CyberAgent announced its annual financial settlement ending September 2010. Ameba business including blog service, Ameblo, and virtual community, Ameba Pigg, made 2.48 billion yen of operating profit increased by 2.7 billion yen from the last year. A number of users are increasing by 300,000 to 400,000 per month, which reaches 11.66 million as of the end of October. A revenue of the business unit in the forth quarter of the fiscal term is 2.6 billion yen, 1.5 billion of which is advertising and the rest is from paid service such as mobile games.
ARPU per month is 1455 yen for PC service and 1043 yen for mobile service as of September. It has been rapidly increasing for the past three months, which is mainly due to casino game and fishing game on Ameba Pigg.
Ameba business unit is focusing on smartphone applications including social networking service as well as services for feature phones. The company aims to generate at least 4 billion yen of profit next fiscal year with Ameba business.
CNET 11/5/2010
ARPU per month is 1455 yen for PC service and 1043 yen for mobile service as of September. It has been rapidly increasing for the past three months, which is mainly due to casino game and fishing game on Ameba Pigg.
Ameba business unit is focusing on smartphone applications including social networking service as well as services for feature phones. The company aims to generate at least 4 billion yen of profit next fiscal year with Ameba business.
CNET 11/5/2010
Adways starts to provide AppDriver, the first CPI-based ads service in Japan
AppDriver is an ad service for smartphone apps developers, which allows them to attract customers with affiliate ads and to monetize with reward ads on a single dashboard at the same time.
The biggest characteristic is that it adopts CPI (Cost Per Install) which determines the commission based on number of installs for the first time in Japan. Another advantage is that it is easy to place reward ads by just embedding SDK.
Reward ads is a kind of affiliate ads which gives virtual goods or reward points when users view the ads and take actions such as buying goods or registering to services.
Venture Now 11/5/2010
The biggest characteristic is that it adopts CPI (Cost Per Install) which determines the commission based on number of installs for the first time in Japan. Another advantage is that it is easy to place reward ads by just embedding SDK.
Reward ads is a kind of affiliate ads which gives virtual goods or reward points when users view the ads and take actions such as buying goods or registering to services.
Venture Now 11/5/2010
Nov 4, 2010
DigiDock, social game developer, merges Ideallink
Ideallink was founded on May 2007 providing document sharing service, Hot.Docs. Several venture capitals including Corepeople Partners has invested in the startup. According to Mr. Yamamoto, president of Ideallink, the company started social application business from the end of the last year and sold Hot.Docs to Baidu.
DigiDock was founded on June 2008. Its flagship game on mixi, Mobatetsu has more than 200,000 users. On August 2010, it raised 50 million yen from IncubateFund.
Venture Now 11/4/2010
DigiDock was founded on June 2008. Its flagship game on mixi, Mobatetsu has more than 200,000 users. On August 2010, it raised 50 million yen from IncubateFund.
Venture Now 11/4/2010
Social lending service, AQUSH, raised capital from Silicon Valley based VC fund
Exchange Corporation, social lending service, AQUSH, operator announced that it accepted an investment from Silicon Valley based VC fund, 500Startups.
Borrowers and lenders on AQUSH can trade without other financial institutions, which allows borrowers to borrow with appropriate interest rate for their credit risk and renders to decide rate of return based on their acceptable risk. Since its launch on December 2009, the total amount of loan application surpasses 1.16 billion yen.
Dream News 11/4/2010
Borrowers and lenders on AQUSH can trade without other financial institutions, which allows borrowers to borrow with appropriate interest rate for their credit risk and renders to decide rate of return based on their acceptable risk. Since its launch on December 2009, the total amount of loan application surpasses 1.16 billion yen.
Dream News 11/4/2010
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