How Japan’s online social restaurant guide Retty doubled its monthly visitors Online social restaurant guide Retty achieved 1 million unique visitors in the month of October 2013. That was pretty good, but since then the number has doubled. Retty announced on March 6th that visitors to the site ha
A fun LinkedIn alternative, Japan’s Wantedly brings new features to profile pages Japanese startup Wantedly has today launched a few new profile features for individual users, letting them add things like projects and portfolio pieces to their profile pages, even tagging team members who they have
New partnerships announced in Japanese payments processing space Recruit Life Style, a subsidiary of Japan’s Recruit Holdings, and US-based payment processing company Square announced yesterday they will integrate Recruit’s register tablet app AirRegi and Square’s payment service Square Regist
Japan’s Mixi launches minimalist selfie app Japanese social network company Mixi recently launched a photo sharing app named Muuk. What’s so unique about this app? To find out, we spoke with the app’s team leader Yuichi Kawasaki, director Atsushi Osaki, and designer Itsumi Motohara. [] via Poc
Japanese crowdsourcing platform for video production raises $3M Viibar, startup which operates a crowdsourcing platform specializing in video production raised approximately 300 million yen in total ($3 million) from Globis Capital Partners and GREE Ventures. Further details were not disclosed. [] v
Explosive potential: Nitrous puts pre-configured development environments in the cloud As someone who has been trying to learn programming over the past few years, one of the biggest issues that I continue to run into is getting my local development environment to function properly. [] via Pocket Ja
Next-gen Japanese wheelchair startup, Whill, closes seed funding with a total of $1,750,000 Whill is a Japanese startup that is currently developing a next-generation wheelchair. Earlier this week the startup unveiled that it has raised funds from Vegas Tech Fund, 500Startups, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
New app helps Japanese women looking to get pregnant In addition to photo sharing and decoration apps, a genre of apps popular among women here in Japan is the utility category. Specifically, many of these are apps that provide a convenient way for women to track their menstrual cycles. [feedly, ift