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SMXL Milan & ISS Barcelona
This month, I attended two awesome search and digital marketing conferences in Europe: SMXL Milan and ISS Barcelona. I’ve spoken several times at these events in the past, but it’s been a while since the last time I attended. While there are many great industry conferences in the USA, you[…]
Continue »State of Social Media in Japan 2023
The use of social media networking services (SNS) continues to grow even in mature markets like Japan. Japan has been one of the leading markets adopting and nurturing social media platforms and users since the 90s. Here are some of the latest stats on SNS usage in Japan. For the[…]
Continue »LINE and Yahoo Japan to Become LY Corporation
In July, I reported that Yahoo! Japan and LINE would merge into one company. Today, the official announcement came from LINE. “LINE Corporation and Yahoo Japan Corporation will integrate into a single company as of October 1, 2023, becoming LY Corporation. With this reorganization, the name of the provide of[…]
Continue »LINE’s New Japanese Large Language Model (LLM)
On August 14th, LINE announced its new Japanese Large Language Model (LLM). It’s an OSS, which can be used for commercial purposes. According to their tweet, LINE is working on multiple large-scale language models (LLM) research and development projects. From that, they released the Japanese language models with 3.6 billion,[…]
Continue »Yahoo! Japan May Switch Organic Search Engine From Google To Naver
Yahoo! Japan was the most popular search engine in Japan, and still is one of the most popular websites with the search function now. There’s a rumor that Yahoo! Japan may switch the organic search engine source from Google to Naver after its current contract with Google ends at the[…]
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