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INTERNET

JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 7, 2015
YouTubers in Japan with 100,000 fans and counting
YouTube threw a big celebration for more than 20 YouTubers living in Japan who have over 100,000 subscribers.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 3, 2015
China admits over 40 percent of its online sales counterfeit, shoddy
More than 40 percent of goods sold online in China last year were either counterfeits or of bad quality, the official Xinhua News Agency said, illustrating the extent of a problem that has bogged down the fast-growing online sector.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 23, 2015
Nigerian answer to Spotify lures investors from MTN to Jay-Z
The mansion, the pool, the Bentley, the life-size portrait and the gold medallions are the spoils of a revolution in Nigeria and music superstar D'banj is enjoying them.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2015
Facebook is following you around the Internet
Social media platforms like Facebook may be pretty intrusive in how they follow your Internet activity, but that's the price of using these 'free' services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2015
Automakers look to tech firms to fix cars over the air
As cars increasingly resemble digital devices, a group of technology firms that can send wireless software updates to cars are in hot demand by carmakers scrambling to catch up to Tesla Motors in the arena of over-the-air updates, or OTAs.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2015
The inexorable logic of the sharing economy
Today's sharing-economy companies like Amazon and eBay have left their infancy, and their services will one day be ubiquitous.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2015
Overseas online purchases to be taxed in bid to protect domestic industries
Consumers in Japan will pay sales tax on overseas online purchases from Thursday in a policy change to eliminate the price advantage of foreign firms over domestic rivals.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 30, 2015
Twitter may expand 140-character limit with new product
Twitter is finally waking up to the idea that some things just cannot be summed up in 140 characters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2015
U.S. government discovers new email Clinton did not hand over
The U.S. Defense Department has found an email chain that Hillary Rodham Clinton did not give to the State Department, the State Department said on Friday, despite her saying she had provided all work emails from her time as secretary of state.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 23, 2015
U.S.-China hacking deal likely to skip industrial espionage for now
Disputes over what is acceptable behavior in cyberspace threaten to overshadow the agenda when Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama meet in Washington late this week.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2015
Internet growth slows and most people are still offline, U.N. says
Growth in the number of people with access to the Internet is slowing, and more than half the world's population is still offline, the United Nations Broadband Commission said Monday.
WORLD
Sep 20, 2015
U.S. and China in urgent talks on cybersecurity deal
The United States and China have been engaged in urgent negotiations in recent weeks on a cybersecurity deal and may announce an agreement when President Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington on a state visit on Thursday, the New York Times said on Saturday.
WORLD
Sep 15, 2015
Putin website hit by 'very powerful' cyberattack
Hackers made a "very powerful" attack on the Kremlin website Sunday, the Russian government said Monday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 7, 2015
The search begins: tips for tapping the Net in Japanese
If you want to have any hope of success in searching for data on the Web in Japanese, you're going to need to work at obtaining competence in keyboard input of the language.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 3, 2015
Selfie madness: too many dying to get the picture
The rise of selfie photography in some of the world's most beautiful — and dangerous — places is sparking a range of interventions aimed at combating risk-taking that has resulted in a string of gruesome deaths worldwide.

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