Victory for Mixi's Users in IP DisputeScore One For LibertyCharacteristic of the digital community, revolting against breaches of privacy and over reaching control gives one a sense of optimism. Witnessing a win for the rights of the individual can be instructive, especially for those in more oppressive countries where...
As reported here last week, Japan's huge social networking site, Mixi, had announced plans to assert its control over its users' intellectual property rights. But, after a broad rebellion by Mixi users, the company has backtracked. Today, the company has a new announcement on the site that...
Over the past week, a battle has been raging inside Mixi, Japan's giant social networking site SNS, over who controls the intellectual property rights of its user-generated content. Mixi has over 13 million users who post on everything from shopping tips and relationship advice to political discussions...
Mixi, a Japanese online networking site, has revealed plans to establish a subsidiary in Shanghai, one of China's fastest growing Internet markets. Mixi is the second most visited site in Japan, after Yahoo Japan. It sees about 11.8 billion page views a month....
AsiaInfo Services02-22-2008Mixi.jp Dips Toe in ChinaSHANGHAI, Feb 22, 2008 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Mixi.jp, a popular social networking Web site in Japan, announces that it will set up a branch in Shanghai, and dip toe in China's bulging Internet market.Mixi.jp has not decided what service to provide in China, but...
TOKYO AFP — Japan's hugely popular online social networking site Mixi said Wednesday it planned to expand into China, whose growing number of Internet users are already being courted by Rupert Murdoch's MySpace. Mixi Inc., which has quickly developed into a top social outlet for Japanese young people...
Japanese consumers have been slow at catching onto IT trends, with a monopoly from big name brands like Yahoo!, Rakuten, Mixi and YouTube taking places in the top ten most visited sites in Japan. However, slowly but surely, smaller IT companies are hammering their way through, all competing for a...
TOKYO -- The ngi group (TOKYO:2497) (http://www.ngigroup.com) is proud to announce that 3Di Incorporated (http://www.3di.jp), which is its subsidiary, has developed an original virtual world platform called "Jinsei" in cooperation with partners in the open source community. "This collaboration with the open source community is the first of its kind...
Back and Forward is a new column that takes a slightly irreverent look back at some of Japan's largest business stories while thinking forward about what they may mean for the future. YouTube and Japan On August 3, YouTube officially rolled out a Japanese localization of...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c66265) has announced the addition of "Mixi: A Case Study of Japan's Most Successful Social Networking Service" to their offering. 1 in 10 Japanese Internet users has an account on mixi, making the site the #1 social networking service SNS in Japan,...
TOKYO AFP — YouTube on Thursday entered a series of commercial partnerships in Japan, where the popular video-sharing website is trying to overcome fierce criticism over copyright protection. US Internet giant Google, which owns YouTube, said it was tying up with six Japanese firms including satellite broadcaster Sky...
TOKYO AFP — MySpace, the wildly popular social networking site, on Thursday launched a video sharing service on its Japanese website, taking on domestic rivals as well as YouTube. Nearly 1,300 users have already uploaded personal videos onto the Japanese website, with thousands viewing short films that range...
Mixi, Japan's 8 million-strong social-networking site, with organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos, is giving stiff competition to its American counterpart, MySpace.com. MySpace.com has a flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout. News Corp.'s MySpace faces a challenge as it enters the Japanese market, created by the...
TOKYO AFP — The young founder of Mixi, Japan's wildly popular Internet networking site, has said he is not worried about the arrival in Japan of international sensation MySpace. "I think it will be hard for MySpace to cut into the subscribers that we have," Mixi Inc. President...
Tokyo, Japan, Jan 31, 2007 - JCN Newswire - Notice is hereby given that CyberAgent, Inc. recorded proceeds from sales of operating investment securities. The details are as follows: 1. Date of sale of operating investment securities January 31, 2007 2. Outline of...
News Corp. and Softbank have partnered to launch a Japanese version of MySpace. Each partner will put in $5 million. Venture will face competition from social-networking leader Mixi, which has nearly 6 million subs...
Byline: Peter Alford Nov 08, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian-listed mass media company, News Corporation, believes that success depends on the flow of information on the internet. While visiting Japan in early November 2006, chairman Rupert Murdoch discussed...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The MySQL open source database has become the database-of-choice for the new generation of highly-popular Internet companies pioneering new "Web 2.0" innovation. Leading Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Habbo Hotel, Linden Labs, CyWorld, Technorati, Facebook, FeedBurner, Feedster, Wikipedia, Digg, LiveJournal, Mixi.jp, SimpleStar, PhotoBucket,...
Byline: Jon Lafayette A group of about 300 media planners last week heard that there is a need for their input somewhere in the heart of the sometimes mysterious process of econometric modeling. Econometric modeling, one of this year's buzzwords in media...
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