TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan. Instead of relying solely on strategic partners, his team visited Japan before ramping up to host events and engage directly with early adopters. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Now, as KKday announces that it’s added $20 million to the round, bringing its total to $95 million, travel trends are changing, with more people going on domestic or international trips. In addition, we are preparing for an influx of both domestic and international travelers as borders reopen.”. “In million travelers.

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TechSpot

JULY 5, 2023

The EU's Commissioner for Internal Market met with both government officials and representatives from private companies, discussing advanced technology such as semiconductors and supply chain issues. This week, the European Union sent Commissioner Thierry Breton to Tokyo for a high-profile meeting with the Japanese government.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The funding is coming at a high-watermark moment for edtech — with the shift to remote learning in the last year of pandemic living highlighting the opportunity to build better tools to serve that market, and a number of startups in the category subsequently raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tackle the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Most of SNKRDUNK’s transactions are within Japan now, but it plans to become a cross-border marketplace. While the COVID-19 pandemic was initially expected to put a damper on the sneaker resell market, C2C marketplaces have actually seen their business increase. Part of the funding will be used to expand into other Asian countries.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

It appears that Leica has found a new mobile camera partner, following Huawei’s sanctions-induced retreat from the international smartphone market. Sharp just announced the Aquos R6 in Japan, and its Leica-branded lens sits in front of what is now the largest camera sensor on any phone. Pricing isn’t yet available.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Joby’s intent to start up operations in Japan comes to light a week after the company announced plans to launch an air taxi service in South Korea in partnership with SK Telecom.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. The latest round will help Zeals accelerate new product development, diversify go-to-market channels and support overseas expansion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Shared micromobility company Luup has raised $8 million (1 billion yen) in debt and asset financing to meet the growing demands of Japan’s micromobility market, which according to a recent report , is projected to reach $11.6 Securing those spaces represents a unique kind of land grab for micromobility companies in Japan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

It is also investing the funding in more international expansion. But there are a number of startups going head-to-head today with these more established players, leveraging new technology and changing expectations from the market to introduce new competitive battlefronts. It paid $1.3

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. The “aging up issue is real,” the researcher wrote in an internal memo. The “aging up issue is real”.

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TechNode

APRIL 10, 2025

Breaking into Asias diverse and dynamic markets has never been more critical or more competitive. For companies eyeing international growth, access to the right networks, market insights, and strategic partnerships can make all the difference.

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TechNode

AUGUST 20, 2024

Luckin Coffee is planning an expansion plan in the fourth quarter with eyes mainly on Southeast Asian and American markets, media outlet LatePost reported on Monday, more than a year after the Chinese coffee chain opened its first international location in Singapore. LatePost, in Chinese ]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

“In China, most supplements are sold at a big markup through pharmacies or multi-level marketing companies like Amway,” Weng said. Amway and the likes spend a lot on marketing and sales.” Moreover, the startup will spend the money on securing health-related certificates and adding Japan to its sourcing regions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Tailor , a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 The company says approximately 70% of the software industry spend in Japan goes to building customized products. market, aiming for 2023. million in seed funding from Y Combinator and Global Brain. and sell it in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Now it plans to speed up the pace of its expansion, with six new markets in the region planned for this year, before entering European countries and the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. The Networked Nonprofit in Japan. >&# She also gave copies of the book away as prizes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

“As motorcycle enthusiasts, we at Ride Vision are excited at the prospect of our international launch and our partnership with Continental,” Uri Lavi, CEO and co-founder of Ride Vision, said in today’s announcement. Brazil, Canada, Australia, Japan, India, China and others following later.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Wuxiaworld expects to launch more content in its platform with Kakao Entertainment’s broad access to the best original stories and intellectual properties in Korea’s fast-growing online serial fiction market and Radish’s strong marketing team (in the U.S.), market, according to its statement. . .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Silver Lake and Advent International led the round, with Advent remaining the company’s largest shareholder. Germany China and Japan and the plan is to expand that further, both as a means of finding more companies to gobble up, but also to expand its wider supply chain. It said that it’s currently on a rate of buying 1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

In Asia, one such sector appears to be the luxury fashion resale market, particularly for platforms that are seeing an uptick in users and sales. The reselling platform has been making minority stake investments in its Asian peers, including Japan’s Soda , Thailand’s Sasom and Malaysia’s sneakers platform Shake Hands.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

The Reon Pocket 2 looks more or less the same as the original model, but the newly designed internals can achieve up to twice the level of heat absorption, according to Sony, resulting in more powerful cooling performance. The Reon Pocket 2 is out today in Japan for 14,850 yen (about $138). No word on a release elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

And while overall same-store sales were up, the company missed estimates in Canada and other international markets. According to Costco’s website , two of those international stores will be in Minami-Alps, Japan, and Ardeer, Australia. Other locations include Canada (109), Mexico (41), Japan (36), U.K. (29),

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Boost Biomes , the Y Combinator-backed developer of microbiome-based bio-fungicides and bio-pesticides for agricultural applications, has added $2 million in funding and picked up a new strategic investor in Japan’s Universal Materials Incubator.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

capital markets by storm led, in part, by startups focused on the electrification of mobility. All of this money is aiming to capture a portion of the market for autonomous, electrified vehicles that the consulting firm McKinsey estimated would save the trucking industry over $100 billion. trucking market alone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

SPACs have essentially proven a pressure-release valve for the space startup market, which has been waiting on high-profile exits to basically prove out the math of its venture-backability. Spire Global debuted in 2012, and has raised more than $220 million to date.

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TechNode

MAY 14, 2024

Retail employees from China, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore flew to Apples headquarters in California last week for a four-day training session on demonstrating the mixed-reality Vision Pro headset, according to sources from Bloomberg. Apple has yet to disclose international pricing. Bloomberg ]

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Since announcing its Series A in April 2018 , Kdan Mobile has grown from 70 employees to 200 in Taiwan, China, Japan and the United States. Kdan Mobile also began offering a set of APIs and SDKs so internal developers at large enterprises can integrate and customize its technology. “We and Asia markets.”.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

The NFL Plus service would theoretically replace NFL Mobile, the NFL’s previous solution for distributing in-market games to phones and tablets. DAZN, for example, has the rights to every NFL game in countries including Canada and Japan. The NFL also operates a streaming service for international subscribers called Game Pass.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The on-orbit servicing market must be driven by national space policies and international standards that directly support satellite servicing. Key players across the international community, from national governments to private commercial companies, must start developing and coordinating space traffic and environmental management.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Many people in emerging markets depend on informal public transport to move across cities. million Series A extension to continue its expansion across emerging markets; the company already has a presence in South Africa and Mexico. Japan’s SBI Investment also participated in the round. Today, i t is announcing a $14.5

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Olympus notes that the OM-D Webcam Beta software doesn’t output sound from the camera — instead, you’ll rely on your computer’s internal microphone or an external USB microphone as usual. For a more detailed walkthrough, check out Olympus’ video guide here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Despite dealing with the pandemic’s impact in all of its markets, including Hong Kong and Malaysia, the company began to see business improve during the second quarter of this year. During the pandemic, FunNow faced different challenges in each of its markets. He added that COVID has changed consumer habits.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

The other two models could be the phone’s international versions. It would also only officially confirm a release in the US and Japan but, as Android Police notes, it would be strange to produce two international versions of the handset if Japan is the only non-US market for the device.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Servify, a startup that manages lifecycle of devices for several popular smartphone vendors including Apple and Samsung in many markets, has raised $65 million as it eyes becoming a public company in two years. India, the world’s second largest smartphone market, accounts for 60% of Servify’s business, he said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

It will use its new funding to build its embedded chip business in new markets. WI Harper, a cross-border investment firm with offices in Taipei, Beijing and San Francisco, will give eYs3D access to its international network of industrial partners. ARM, the microprocessor company, will integrate eYs3D’s chips into its CPU and NPUs.

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