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Japanese publisher lets readers tweet out their favorite manga page

Yukari Mitsuhashi Yukari Mitsuhashi
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Japanese publisher Kodansha is making aggressive moves toward digital recently. Our readers may recall we wrote about their partnership with Line’s novel service back in June. Another initiative from Kodansha is its mobile app ‘D Morning’ provided in cooperation with internet portal Excite Japan. There is a weekly comic book entitled ‘Morning’ that has been in print since 1982. Since then, the comic book has attracted so many manga fans of all ages, especially men. D Morning is the digital version of this comic, and works as a subscription-based app. The application was released back in May and provides about 500 pages from popular comics such as Shimakosaku and Uchu-Kyodai. Users of D Morning can enjoy the latest issues of comics every Thursday at 12am, faster than anybody else. The two companies just updated the app, with a unique feature that lets users share their favorite page from a selected comic to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Readers can tweet out their favorite quotes or pictures that they find especially moving. This feature is exclusive to iOS users for now, but the Android app will see an update sometime in October. D Morning can be downloaded for free,…

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Japanese publisher Kodansha is making aggressive moves toward digital recently. Our readers may recall we wrote about their partnership with Line’s novel service back in June.

Another initiative from Kodansha is its mobile app ‘D Morning’ provided in cooperation with internet portal Excite Japan. There is a weekly comic book entitled ‘Morning’ that has been in print since 1982. Since then, the comic book has attracted so many manga fans of all ages, especially men. D Morning is the digital version of this comic, and works as a subscription-based app.

The application was released back in May and provides about 500 pages from popular comics such as Shimakosaku and Uchu-Kyodai. Users of D Morning can enjoy the latest issues of comics every Thursday at 12am, faster than anybody else.

The two companies just updated the app, with a unique feature that lets users share their favorite page from a selected comic to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Readers can tweet out their favorite quotes or pictures that they find especially moving. This feature is exclusive to iOS users for now, but the Android app will see an update sometime in October.

D Morning can be downloaded for free, on both iOS and Android. The first download comes as a free issue, but subsequent downloads will cost 500 yen (about $5) per month. The back catalogue, going back to the time of registration, is available as well.

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Excite Japan and Indonesia’s Sinar Mas to launch online mobile ad business

Masaru Ikeda Masaru Ikeda
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Excite Japan, one of Japan’s leading internet portals, announced today that it has teamed up with Jakarta-based conglomerate Sinar Mas, to start working an online ad service in Indonesia. The companies previously established up a joint venture called Excite Indonesia earlier this month. The new company will launch an online ad service that gives rewards to mobile users of SmartFren Telecom, one of Indonesia’s largest mobile operators. They hope to acquire 100 advertisers by the end of this year, and expect the annual turnover to reach 600 million yen (about $6.12 million) in 2017. This is the first time for Excite Japan to launch a local office outside Japan. The company is expecting to explore more business opportunities in Southeast Asian region in the future. Excite Japan is a subsidiary of Japan’s largest trading company Itochu Corporation. In Taiwan, it has invested in two companies: e-commerce platform PCHome, and the review site Fashion Guide. Should this point rewards system prove successful in Indonesia, the company plans to bring it to the Philippines next.

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Excite Japan, one of Japan’s leading internet portals, announced today that it has teamed up with Jakarta-based conglomerate Sinar Mas, to start working an online ad service in Indonesia.

The companies previously established up a joint venture called Excite Indonesia earlier this month. The new company will launch an online ad service that gives rewards to mobile users of SmartFren Telecom, one of Indonesia’s largest mobile operators. They hope to acquire 100 advertisers by the end of this year, and expect the annual turnover to reach 600 million yen (about $6.12 million) in 2017.

This is the first time for Excite Japan to launch a local office outside Japan. The company is expecting to explore more business opportunities in Southeast Asian region in the future.

Excite Japan is a subsidiary of Japan’s largest trading company Itochu Corporation. In Taiwan, it has invested in two companies: e-commerce platform PCHome, and the review site Fashion Guide. Should this point rewards system prove successful in Indonesia, the company plans to bring it to the Philippines next.

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Japan’s e-commerce service Locondo raises $6.3 million from Excite Japan and VC firms

Junya Mori Junya Mori
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See the original story in Japanese. Locondo is a shoes and fashion e-commerce service that says it allows consumers to ‘buy first and than choose.’ Readers may recall that we recently featured the company after it partnered with Spanish brand Desigual. Locondo announced today it has just wrapped up series B funding worth 600 million yen (approximately $6.3 million) from leading Japanese web portal Excite Japan, Lead Capital Management (LCM), and Itochu Technology Ventures (ITV). LCM and ITV previously invested in the company in the series A round. Locondo was launched back in February of 2011 and has acquired more than 300,000 users with an annual turnover of 3 billion yen ($31 million) by using the strategy of easy refunds with free shipping and handling. By partnering with Excite Japan, the e-commerce company aspires to increase its user base by reaching the portal site’s 50 million monthly visitors. The two companies also plan to integrate their e-commerce platforms and cooperate on developing new services and features.

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See the original story in Japanese.

Locondo is a shoes and fashion e-commerce service that says it allows consumers to ‘buy first and than choose.’ Readers may recall that we recently featured the company after it partnered with Spanish brand Desigual.

Locondo announced today it has just wrapped up series B funding worth 600 million yen (approximately $6.3 million) from leading Japanese web portal Excite Japan, Lead Capital Management (LCM), and Itochu Technology Ventures (ITV). LCM and ITV previously invested in the company in the series A round.

Locondo was launched back in February of 2011 and has acquired more than 300,000 users with an annual turnover of 3 billion yen ($31 million) by using the strategy of easy refunds with free shipping and handling.

By partnering with Excite Japan, the e-commerce company aspires to increase its user base by reaching the portal site’s 50 million monthly visitors. The two companies also plan to integrate their e-commerce platforms and cooperate on developing new services and features.

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