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Brightcove Raises Another $59.5 Million In Third Round; NYTCO Among New Investors - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 17 Jan 2007 08:51 AM PST

Updated: Spoke to Jeremy briefly at NATPE...on the money he said it won’t be used much for acquisitions, or at least they don’t have anything coming on their horizon. Mainly…

Game Search Engine Wazap Raises $7.9 Million To Promote US Launch - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 15 Jan 2007 07:07 AM PST

In a bid to launch its game search engine in the US, German-Japanese vertical search engine Wazap has raised $7.9 million in a second round of funding led by Partech…

DoCoMo Buys 3 Percent Of Nippon TV For $112 million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 04 Jan 2007 03:35 PM PST

Another in Japanese operators’ efforts to shore up their content offerings: Japanese incumbent DoCoMo has bought a 3 percent stake in Nippon Television Network for 13.3 billion yen ($111 million).…

Japanese’s Faith Buys Online/Mobile Music Delivery Firm Rightscale - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 14 Dec 2006 03:33 PM PST

We missed this one last week: Faith, one of the big mobile content companies out of Japan, through its subsidiary Brave, has bought out full stake in Rightsscale, an online…

Japanese Group Wants YouTube To Be Proactive About Copyright - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 05 Dec 2006 05:58 AM PST

The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers is asking YouTube to set up a pre-post review system for uploads. AP reports that the group has sent a…

Chinese Search Company Baidu Will Enter Japanese Market In ‘07 - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 04 Dec 2006 04:00 PM PST

Baidu.com, China’s leading search company, said Monday it will enter the Japanese market next year. According to Reuters, the company did a six-month study into Japanese-language search technology and believe…

Japan’s GDH Launches Digital Media Fund - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 02 Dec 2006 10:27 AM PST

In Japan, GDH Capital, a member of the GDH Group, has launched a $5.5 million investment fund to develop content across a range of media, including music, TV, mobile and…

DoCoMo Invests $34.5 Million in Japanese Media Firm Kadokawa - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 27 Nov 2006 05:25 PM PST

Japanese operator DoCoMo has invested in Kadokawa Group Holdings (a group of companies engaged mainly in publishing or movies/visual content) by buying “1,031,000 shares in the holding company, or 3.78%…

AOL’s Advertising.com, Mitsui Team Up For Japan JV - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 20 Nov 2006 08:54 AM PST

Advertising.com Japan will be a joint venture between the AOL unit and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., designed to try to tap in to the growing online ad market there. Advertising.com,…

Murdoch: News Corp. Could get $6 Billion For MySpace Now - 4 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 14 Nov 2006 09:13 AM PST

MySpace would likely sell for $6 billion now, News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch told Australian investors today. Details of the meeting come from UBS analyst Aryeh Bourkoff in…

The Winter Of Consoles: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360; And Zune - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 12 Nov 2006 09:03 PM PST

This is the winter of consoles: PS3 launched over the weekend in Japan, to its attendant craziness, and then there’s Wii from Nintendo, and from Microsoft, Xbox 360 fall update.…

Earnings: Softbank Q2 Rises On Vodafone Acquisition; Online Up 32 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Jonathan Berr - Thu 09 Nov 2006 09:54 AM PST

Softbank’s second quarter profit surged thanks to its recent acqusition of Vodafone Group’s wireless unit. Net income climbed to 13 billion yen ($111 million) from 7 billion yen ($59.3 million)…

It’s Official: News Corp., SoftBank Set Up MySpace JV In Japan; MySpace Aims For 11 More Countries - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 07 Nov 2006 08:47 AM PST

News Corp. and SoftBank are each putting up 590 million yen—sounds a lot more impressive than the dollar equivalent of $5.09 million each—to fund MySpace KK, the companies announced today…

MySpace To Launch In Japan; Partnership With SoftBank: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 05 Nov 2006 08:31 PM PST

Looks like MySpace.com’s expected expansion into Japan is finally underway. Via Reuters, a report from business daily Nihon Keizai that News Corp. is partnering 50-50 with Softbank Corp. on a…

Apple Claims First Music Download Victim In Japan—Or So Claims Oricon - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 31 Oct 2006 10:52 PM PST

Japanese music chart publisher Oricon is dropping its music download service, bowing to pressure from Apple iTunes Japan, estimated to have about 5 percent of the market. Instead, Reuters reports,…

Napster Launches Music Downloads Site For Japan, Tower Records Partners - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Tue 03 Oct 2006 06:12 AM PST

Napster launched a music download site for Japan today in partnership with Tower Records, even as it continues its quest for a sale of the parent company. This Japanese deal…

Mixi’s IPO Doubles on Day One; $1.9 Billion Valuation - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 15 Sep 2006 02:11 PM PST

Japan’s popular social networking site Mixi debuted on the stock market today, and its shares doubled their IPO price on their first day of trade, with investors saying demand for…

Sony Japan Takes Stake in Online Golf Game Site Gamepot, For $22 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 15 Sep 2006 10:11 AM PST

Sony Japan’s online unit Sony Communication Network has bought a stake in 27 percent stake in Gamepot, an operator of a popular online golf game, for 2.6 billion yen (about…

Viacom To Buy Out Majority Partner in MTV Japan; Will Make Multi-Platform Push - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Tue 29 Aug 2006 08:09 AM PST

Viacom will buy out H&Q Asia Pacific‘s 68 percent stake in the MTV Japan cable channel for an undisclosed amount, allowing the firm to pursue its cross-platform content strategy in…

Google: Mobile Still In Investment Phase; Search Share Dropped Slightly In June - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Mon 21 Aug 2006 06:10 AM PST

Deep Nishar, Google’s head of wireless products, skims over Google’s global mobile aspirations in a MediaGuardian interview today. Lack of a reliable landline network and web connections in growth markets…

Japanese CE Firms To Develop Net-Connected-TV Standards - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Aug 2006 10:10 AM PST

Not sure how much this would matter outside of Japan: Sony, Matsushita, Sharp, Toshiba and Hitachi, the Japanese consumer-electronics giants, are developing a joint standard for Internet-connected TVs...it plans to…

Japan May Ease TV Copy Protection Rules - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Aug 2006 05:10 AM PST

In Japan, the government plans to ask broadcasters and makers of home appliances to ease a copy protection rule for digital TV broadcasts to allow viewers to copy recorded programs…

Dentsu, Mitsubishi Animation Alliance To Explore Online/Mobile Too - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 06 Jun 2006 03:07 PM PST

[by Sahad P V] Dentsu and Mitsubishi Corporation have announced a new business alliance for the production, sale and rights management of Japanese animated works in Japan and globally, in…

Sharp, Sony, M’shita To Set Up Digital TV Video Service JV; Invest $9 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Jun 2006 10:08 PM PST

Not sure how this will look like, since couldn’t find the original release: Major Japanese electronics manufacturers including Matsushita, Sony, Sharp, Toshiba and Hitachi will set up a joint venture…

Warner Invests in Japanese Mobile Radio Firm; Increasing International Footprint - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Jun 2006 08:07 PM PST

Warner Music Group is expanding its international footprint through investments and joint ventures, focusing on online and mobile potential: it has now bought a minority stake in a Japanese mobile…