Mar 31, 2010

Nobot allocated new shares of 31 million yen to ngi fund and others

Nobot provides "Ad Maker", delivering ads to multi ad networks for iPhone. It is also working on developing partnerships overseas. The capital will be mainly spent for system and organization development for overseas business.

Venture Now 3/31, 2010

Colopl launched location game for iPhone

Colopl launched a location game, "Colony na seikatsu plus" for iPhone, which users access via Safari. The game has been provided to mobile phones with 980,000 users.

CNET 3/31, 2010

CyberAgent Investment invested in Vietnam's mobile contents provider

CuberAgent Investment acquired about 3% shares of VMG Media, mobile contents provider in Vietnam.

VMG Media has around 25% shares in mobile contents market in Vietnam. The government-managed telecom career, VNPT has 37% of shares of the company which is growing by taking advantage of collaboration with the VNPT owned two largest mobile operators, Mobifone and VinaPhone.

CNET 3/30, 2010

The first Sekai Camera for Android released for KDDI "IS01"

KDDI and Tonchi Dot announced to provide its AR application, "Sekai Camera" with au's Android smart phone, "IS01" as the first Android device, KDDI also provide BREW application, "Sekai Camera ZOOM', with which users of au mobile devices can view Sekai Camera's air tags associating with contents of EZweb.


ITpro 3/30, 2010

anydoor announced to allocate new shares of 6 million yen to Samurai Incubate

anydoor allocated new shares of 6 million yen to Samurai Incubate's operating fund.
The company will capitalize on development and marketing of its web service, "Social translation Conyac".


Venture Now 3/30, 2010

Dentsu and Yappa provides e-magazine publishing pay service for Android devices

Dentsu and Yappa announce that they provide e-magazine publishing service, "MAGASTORE" to Android devices from this June.

MAGASTORE is a service that users buy and download e-magazine with a native application. As of 30 March, it sells 39 of magazines and users can buy not only the latest contents but also back numbers. They started the service for iPhone in September 2009, following for Softbank WiFi devices in November and NTT Docomo in February.

It starts to provide KDDI's "IS01" and then NTT Docomo's Xperia and Softbank Mobile's HTC Desire.

CNET 3/31, 2010

Mar 30, 2010

JETMAN's ebook edit tool for iPhone

JETMAN announced to develop JETBOOK+, ebook edit tool. The tool allows to embed 3D CG, sound, movie and link to web, and make it to an iPhone application. As a material of ebook, PDF and Illustrator files are possible to use.

The company is planning to create contents such as magazines, catalogs, interactive learning tools and picture books.

Ascii 3/30, 2010