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SoftBank-backed Korean edtech startup Riiid acquires Langoo, expands in Japan  

TechCrunch

Riiid , a South Korea-headquartered AI-powered edtech company, acquired its Japanese distribution partner Langoo to expand its Japan footprint. . Langoo, Riiid’s partner in Japan, offers Riiid Tutor, formerly known as Santa, a test prep app for the English-language proficiency test TOEIC in the region. Riiid claims that more than 2.5

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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US joins six countries in new call for backdoor encryption access

The Verge

The US was joined in the effort by officials representing the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, and Japan. Crucially, the seven countries would not only seek to acces encrypted data in transit — such as the end-to-end encryption used by WhatsApp — but also locally stored data like the contents of a phone.

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Where should US-based startups file their patent applications?

TechCrunch

You know that if you want to protect the product, you should file a patent application. patent application. Well, you can file a patent application in each of those countries. However, the cost of filing a patent application in every country can be prohibitive even for the largest companies. Problem solved, right?

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How our SaaS startup broke into the Japanese market without a physical presence

TechCrunch

Breaking into Japan is often one of the biggest challenges a growing tech company will encounter. For the startups that cater to these companies, “cracking Japan” is inevitably part of their growth and expansion roadmaps. Japan is not a testing ground for MVP products. Share on Twitter. Barnabas Birmacher is the CEO of Bitrise.

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Expanding your startup into Asia? Here’s how to build out your operations in the region

The Next Web

For example, should they hire in-market consultants, an expatriate based in a hub city, or partner with a local player? Hire the right people – local and entrepreneurial. You also need true local expertise. Be ‘local’ but don’t overdo it. In short: be the master of your own localization strategy.

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Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup

TechCrunch

Tailor , a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 Legacy ERPs provided by companies such as SAP, Oracle and NetSuite (which is owned by Oracle) and local players like OBIC , are difficult to customize for users, according to Shibata.

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