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The New Year is just around the corner, and millions of Japanese people will write even more postcards to friends, family and business partners to celebrate the occasion. Mixi, in 2008, started making it possible for users to create and send these so-called nengajo to their friends via Mixi, even...

Mixi is ready to set up a US unit next month, but this is not all as far as its efforts in America are concerned: as reported on TechCrunch Japan, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network (over 25 million users), has entered a partnership with Silicon Valley-based NetService Ventures...

Years after setting up a base in China, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi has announced it will open a subsidiary in the US as early as next month. Aptly named mixi America, the new unit is registered in Delaware, capitalized at US$5 million and wholly owned by Mixi in Japan...

Mixi announced it added a new feature to Mixi Pages, its version of Facebook pages for individuals, companies or celebrities to broadcast information and promote themselves (Mixi introduced the feature in September). Owners of sites can now track the number page views, unique users, followers...

Facebook still has no iPad app, but Mixi now does: the company today announced that Mixi for iPad just hit the App Store. I just downloaded the app (for free) from the Japanese App Store (link) and gave it a spin. The app looks fine, allows access to all of Mixi’s main functions and is...