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TOKYO: Japan’s top telecommunications company is getting 7.3 billion yen — about $67 million — in taxpayer money to design mobile tracking software to curb the spread of coronavirus infections during the Tokyo Olympics. There’s one catch: Few Olympic fans from abroad will be around to use it. Tokyo Olympic organizers and the IOC on […]
Japan has a tech strategy for Tokyo Olympics Read More
Google is announcing a bunch of new features planned for Google Maps, including a new tool to help with indoor navigation and suggestions for eco-friendly driving routes. The features announced …
Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps Read More
Tokyo-based VC firm Nextblue announced on Thursday that its first fund targeting to raise up to 3 billion yen ($27.5 million), which was initially set up in April, has reached its first …
Nextblue unveils first fund with $28M target for Japanese and European startups Read More
Jack Dorsey has sold his first tweet ever as an NFT, a nonfungible token. Raking in $2.9 million for the 15-year-old tweet — which reads “just setting up my twttr” — the Twitter CEO immediately handed the proceeds over to GiveDirectly’s Africa charity fund Monday in Bitcoin. Dorsey put the tweet up for sale on […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sells first tweet as an NFT for $2.9M Read More
Kawasaki, Kanagawa-based LexxPluss announced on Wednesday that it has secured an undisclosed sum in a seed round from Incubate Fund, SOSV Investments, and Sumitomo Corporation. For the startup, this is the first …
HAX Tokyo alumni LexxPluss secures seed round to enhance warehouse robotics Read More
Have you been killing it in the gym, but aren’t seeing the results you want?Do you eat a varied and balanced clean diet, but feel frustrated about not attaining your …
How to Eat & Workout for a Mesomorph Body Type Read More
Tokyo-based Coconala, the startup behind an online platform under the same name where you can buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach, announced on …
Japanese skills marketplace Coconala files for IPO valued at over $207M Read More