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NTT DoCoMo Inc., despite being Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier, has been struggling against tough smartphone competition from KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp., which is leading in that area. But one edge that the cellphone behemoth — it has more than 60 million subscribers ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
The 27-year-old defender says he was ready for a change of scenery after helping Sanfrecce Hiroshima win theJ. League title last season.
U.S. teenagers are sharing more information about themselves on social-media sites, but taking steps to protect their privacy online, a study showed Tuesday. The new survey showed 91 percent of those surveyed posted a photo of themselves, up from 79 percent in 2006; 71 ...
Microsoft unveils the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment.
Reinvigorated technology player Yahoo on Monday unveiled a dusted-off design of its Flickr photo platform only hours after the company’s dramatic acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, maintaining her ambition was to make Flickr “awesome again,” said the new site will ...
The billion-dollar deal for Tumblr has stirred talk on the next big acquisition target in the sector, with cash-rich tech giants looking for the next potential star. Yahoo’s blockbuster deal for the popular blogging platform comes amid a battle for eyeballs on the Internet ...
Yahoo has concluded that Tumblr, the social blogging service, is worth a whopping $1.1 billion. Will the bet prove a good one? The answer depends on whether the combined company can turn its many millions of users into a interlocking set of services that ...
Tumblr lovers were quick to express outrage in trademark sassy posts Monday after news that Yahoo is buying the blogging platform in a $1.1 billion deal. Reaction was swift as the youthful user base of Tumblr put the California company on notice that they ...
Yahoo Inc.’s board has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr Inc., a service that hosts 108 million blogs, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter. Tumblr will continue to operate as an independent business and a deal was ...
An unemployed drifter who became an Internet sensation in February after he brandished a hatchet to stop an assault has been charged with murder following his arrest in Philadelphia, police said. Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, 24, was detained at a bus station Thursday after a ...
The scandal shaking up South Korea’s main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul’s opaque rival to the north, but the country’s own people. Internet ...
The Japanese version of the Huffington Post website aims to encourage reserved Japanese people to participate in online discussions and express themselves, Arianna Huffington, founder of the online media giant, said Wednesday. Huffington was in Tokyo to oversee Tuesday’s launch of Huffington Post Japan, ...
Google on Thursday began letting people plan out what is to be done with their digital photos, documents and other virtual belongings after they die or become incapacitated. An Inactive Account Manager can be used to direct Google to pass on data from online ...
The Red Bulletin is a handsome Web and print magazine that practically oozes testosterone. Recent issues have featured stories on the world’s deepest free diver, human-pyramid building in Spain and a guy who rappels into volcanoes. All of it is embellished with photography worthy ...