Twiggle, the "AI search engine," raises $15M

2017.06.06

In slightly older news (about a month ago), Twiggle, which is developing a search engine specifically in e-commerce with machine learning, has raised $15M in funding. The money will be used to pay for hiring personnel and sales promotion...

BEFORE Brands, which raised a total of $48 million in baby tech

2017.06.04

Check out the following article on TechCrunch, BabyTech is also starting to see an increase in funding. Baby tech draws seed funding and a few big rounds...

Dutch medical startup Castor EDC raises €1.1 million in funding

2017.05.28

From Tech.eu, Castor EDC, which aims to handle medical data and research across diagnostic information, has successfully raised approximately €1.1 million in funding. So the medical data collected is the road to AI. Dutch medical ...

Yokohama City's "Walking Point Project" to Discover the Relationship between Walking and Health

2017.05.25

Yokohama City will launch a verification project to explore the correlation between walking and health. Yokohama City's "Walking Point Project": Effects of Reducing Medical Expenses Databased and Calculated The relationship between walking and health is a science. Starting in FY2017, the City of Yokohama will begin...

vivofit" Activity Tracker for Kids Launched by GARMIN

2017.05.22

Wearable device for activity management for children has been released. Garmin's First Lifelog Band for Kids is Now Available Vivofitr(R) jr. to be released in late April 2017 Key Specifications - Su...

Berlin startup Move24 raises €13 million in funding

2017.05.18

From Tech.eu, news of funding for a startup focused on relocation in Berlin. German relocation startup Move24 brings in €13 million in Seri...

Nippon Shinyaku Releases "PAH Care Note" Patient Support Application

2017.05.15

The Kyoto Shimbun reports that Nippon Shinyaku Co. has released "PAH Care Note," a smartphone application for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Managing Symptoms via Smartphone and Internet Nippon Shinyaku Provides Patient Support Nippon Shinyaku has released "PAH Care Notebook," a smartphone application for patients suffering from diseases closely related to its drugs....

startup

App Annie releases a survey showing that approximately 10 apps are used per day

2017.05.12

Tech in Asia published an article on the results of a survey that found "People now use 10 apps a day, and spend mor... People now use 10 apps a day, and spend mor...

Ibaraki Prefecture's Hokota City Releases "HUG Kumu" Child-Raising Support Application

2017.05.09

Hokota City in Ibaraki Prefecture has released a child-rearing support application. Child-rearing support with a smartphone, Hokota City provides an app to notify vaccination information, etc. - quoted from Ibaraki Shimbun Cross Eye-. The application provides notifications of vaccinations and health checkups according to the growth of the child, information on child-rearing events, and...

Nanit, a smart baby monitor device for infant sleep analysis

2017.04.28

There are quite a variety of smart baby monitors available, and I would like to introduce Nanit. This device is used by hanging it above the crib, for example. De...

Actility, an IoT-focused LPWAN provider, raises $75 million in funding

2017.04.26

This is a bit old news, but I'm clipping it because it's an interesting funding information. French IoT solutions company Actility raises a $75 million Series D roun...

Doctors in Ochanomizu, Tokyo, develop smartphone app that enables arrhythmia checks.

2017.04.22

Doctors give the impression of being very busy, but there is an amazing doctor...! Dr. Kensuke Igarashi, 31, a doctor who runs an internal medicine clinic in Ochanomizu, Tokyo, is a native of Takasaki City....

The Ultimate Childcare Support Measure? Okutama Town's Policy of Offering Houses for Free

2017.04.18

This is a bold move again...! Amazing town with "free house" and "7,020,000 yen for child-raising support" Brief summary A house with land will be given away free of charge if the applicant lives there for at least 15 years. Applicants must be a couple under 40 years old or under 50 years old and under junior high school age...

Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, has created a "child-rearing textbook" for new fathers.

2017.04.16

PapaSmile's mission is to "make fathers' child-rearing more fun. Himeji City in Hyogo Prefecture has released a child-rearing textbook for new fathers. Himeji City has created a "child-rearing textbook" to support new fathers.

Hirato City, Nagasaki Prefecture, is now operating a one-coin service to watch over the elderly.

2017.04.15

The "One Coin Magokoro Service" was started in 2012 in Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture, and the number of those users has been increasing, so it is becoming more established. The fact that the fee has been reduced from 500 yen to 100 yen since April 2014 also seems to be significant. 10...

Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, releases "The Third Atami City Food Education Promotion Plan

2017.04.06

Atami City has released the "Third Atami City Nutrition Education Promotion Plan - Atami Hungry for Food". The keyword for nutrition education in Atami is "Hungry" "Atami Hungry" Nutrition Education Promotion Plan The definition of nutrition education is easy to understand Nutrition education means that each citizen should have a healthy diet throughout his/her life...