In 1994, Digital Garage created the first personal home page in Japan, which marked the beginning of our epoch-making history. We have gone on to create a wide variety of business endeavors based on our core strengths: cutting-edge Internet technology, marketing technology with focus on usability, and financial technology that harnesses total solutions. The footsteps of Digital Garage --its path of creating new context as well as numerous business models-- have been and will be a guidepost for Internet business in Japan in the 21st century.
| 1994 |  | - Japan’s first personal homepage
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- Begin homepage creation business (eccosys, From Garage)
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| 1995 |  | - The world’s first “cyber-space expo” connecting 80 countries, Internet World Expo ’96. In charge of technical aspects for Japan
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 | - World. Jr. Summit: event connecting children from 40 countries by the Internet, hosted by Isao Okawa. Digital Garage provides technical services
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- Internet streaming media event support, and management of public Internet access spaces (Internet World Expo, 96)
- ”Internet Café in Shibuya”(with IBM)
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| 1996 |  | - Introduce the world’s first commercial Internet provider to Japanese market
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 | - Localize and launch Infoseek search engine service in Japan (In 1999 sold to Disney Group)
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 | - Establish Digital Advertising Consortium, a consortium of advertising agencies specializing in Digital Media advertising
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- Japan’s first robot-based search engine
- Establishment of first consortium in advertising industry
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| 1997 |  | - Localization and sales of Ultraseek search technology begins (Now sold under “ Autonomy Ultraseek” brand)
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- Provide robot-based (spider-based) search technology for corporate and government use
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| 1998 |  | - Localization and adaptation of the popular rock-music site from the U.S. (Internet broadcast of Fuji-Rock Festival)
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 | - “Fit- Kansei”: Web User Survey System with Cluster Analysis Jointly developed with the Communication Science Institute
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- Launch first online CD shop in Japan
- Begin music-related database service
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| 1999 |  | - Introduction of open-source application server, Zope
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 | - Establish the Electric Commerce Institute to provide marketing and e-commerce consulting and Internet-related research services
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 | - Launch Web Nation: EC Site offering music and entertainment related products. Developed fully automated supply chain (Fulfillment and payment systems) (developed with the cooperation of TIS, Yamato Transport Co., Ltd?and Lilac Co, Ltd)
- Register business patent for above system (October 2002, service transferred to IQI)
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- Introduce Open-source Zope
- Launch E-commerce site with automated logistical system (including: Inventory status confirmation, delivery detail selection, etc.)
- Jointly develop e-commerce portal for convenience store chains with Lawson
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| 2000 |  | - Launch first convenience-store-based payment and fulfillment platform business (Registered business model patent jointly with Lawson)
- Launch E-context as Joint-venture with Lawson, TIS, and Mitsubishi Trading
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 | - Establish G-Port as a joint enterprise with Shaddy, the leading catalog gift company in Japan
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 | - JASDAQ, Initial Public Offering of Digital Garage
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- Develop and launch first convenience-store-based payment and fulfillment system
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| 2001 |  | - Launch first auction-platform service with JCB Register business model patent jointly with JCB (Ends in 8th term)
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 | - Mojo: Purchase rights to E-commerce engine (April 2003, technical cooperation with Sun Microsystems)
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- Launch auction business platform
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| 2002 |  | - Announce Smoothy: management and commerce system for broadband contents
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 | - Kakaku.com becomes a subsidiary of Digital Garage. Kakaku.com is the leading price-comparison site in Japan
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 | - Announce strategic business partnership with Image-Quest Interactive (IQI), for entertainment and broad content development
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 | - Launch business tie-up with ALC, major publisher of language education materials
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- Combine WebNation and indiesmusic.com increasing coverage for Indies music market
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| 2003 |  | - Digital Garage, Inc. announces business and capital partnership with Zion Ltd., provider of consulting services and system development for mobile telephony and Internet technologies DSI joins Zion Group (June 2003, Zion becomes affiliated DG company)
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 | - Reestablishment of Creative Garage, our creative design firm
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 | - Business and Capital Partnership with Digital Network Appliance Inc., a Broadband Technology Venture Company
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- Development of integrated solution package tailored to broadband video distribution for television terminal systems, based on Smoothy (a software for content management and content based commerce)
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| 2004 |  | - Digital Garage establishes strategic subsidiary company focused on mobile business
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 | - Digital Garage announces investment & business partnership with Interscope, major Internet Research company
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 | - Digital Garage announces investment in Just Planning, application service provider for the restaurant industry
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 | - Digital Garage announces financial and business partnership with B.U.G. Inc., as part of group’s Ubiquitous Network strategy: DG to acquire 21% of B.U.G. shares, becoming second leading shareholder
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 | - Digital Garage announces agreement in which DG will acquire all of the issued shares of Ibex & rims, leader in integrated sales promotion, and make Ibex a 100% DG subsidiary
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| 2005 |  | - Digital Garage establishes blog business company ‘Technorati JAPAN’
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 | - Digital Garage establishes DG Incubation, a wholly-owned subsidiary to promote agility and efficiency in managing investment in developing new businesses and strategic investment
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 | - Digital Garage co-founds venture capital management company with JAIC
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 | - Digital Garage forms new company ‘WEB 2.0’ with PIA and Kakaku.com to start new portal site and other businesses in view of next-generation net society
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| 2006 |  | - Digital Garage becomes a pure holding company of the group
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 | - Digital Garage forms intermediate holding company DG Solutions
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 | - Digital Garage establishes web advertising company DG Media Marketing to cover a wide range of group media, including Kakaku.com and Technorati.jp and other major media
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 | - Digital Garage establishes CGM Marketing jointly with Dentsu, cci and ADK
- Launching new marketing business in Web 2.0 era utilizing CGM
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 | - Digital Garage splits and restructures its solutions subsidiaries to strengthen and streamline subsidiary businesses by redistributing group resources
- Strategic business company, DG&Ibex established
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 | - Digital Garage co-founds new IR company with Asia Securities Printing
- Supporting IR in the era of Web 2.0 utilizing CGM
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| 2007 |  | - Digital Garage capitalizes on world's largest WiFi community, British FON, through subsidiary
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 | - Digital Garage subsidizes major real estate advertiser Sogei through affiliate
- To reinforce solutions business in the real estate sector, where IT promotion is rapidly expanding
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| 2008 |
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- Formed a Partnership with Twitter
- DG Incubation helped developing of Twitter Japanese site
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- Absorbed a group of subsidiaries, ECONTEXT, DG solutions, DG&Ibex, DG Media Marketing and Creative Garage
- Employed a slogan "Hybrid Solution Partner"
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| 2009 |
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- Formed a Partnership with Culture Convenience Club which operates Japan's largest chain of video rental stores "Tsutaya"
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| 2010 |
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- Established "Open Network Lab" which is Japan's first mentor-driven seed accelerator program
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- Founded NEXDG, joint venture with Nippon Express
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- Made an investment in e-book/Contents distribution comapny "MEDIA DO"
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- Partnership with HootSuite which provides social media management tool
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| 2011 |
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- Invested in Path which provides Personal Network Service
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