Thanks to all who came down for our event last night - always great to see you! We’re right back on the campaign trail with notice that December 8th will be our last gathering in 2008, so be sure to register soon and save that date in your hyper-busy Bonenkai Season calendar..!!

Our iphone Extravaganza, with all those scary monsters on-hand playing trick or treat, was a real blast! Thanks to everyone who made it out and we certainly look forward to see you again on November 10th for our next event with Fractilist and eMobile - profiles below - stepping up to the stage…

Thanks to all who made it out for our 4th birthday event at the Canadian embassy, we look forward to see you at Sam and Dave - October 20th for the iPhone Extravaganza. It should be a very interesting evening so be sure to mark your calendar for that..!!

A big thank-you to all who braved the weather to attend MoMo Aug. 25th, you’re real troopers one and all. As noted our next gathering is Sept. 22nd at the Canadian embassy. Since all eyes are looking at the americas for potential growth, we’ve gathered - from both sides of the equator - a couple of industry insiders to share their insights. As always it promises to be a fantastic evening in a swank venue and we are thrilled to count that as the 4th anniversary of the MoMo Tokyo chapter launch!

Thanks to everyone who made it our for Nico Nico Night on the 14th and then the 4th annual NetTokyo fund-raiser last weekend, it was a great way to kick-off the summer! Our next MoMo Tokyo is August 25th and we have tapped a couple of savvy VC’s for a ‘money meets the talent’ evening. Be sure to register now and try to stay cool in the meantime.

We hope you all enjoy rainy season now because it’s gonna get hot-hot-hot real soon. So, with that in mind, your hard-working MoMo Tokyo team looks forward to chilling with everyone at Sam and Daves on July 14th while taking in a couple of super interesting presentations coming from the good folks at Xtone and Niwango. See ya there!

Thanks to everyone who attended our last event at Google on April 21st, a great evening was had by all. For those who may have missed it we have the presentation [.pdf] from Jaehong Lee, COO of Mikle Inc., uploaded Here.

Meanwhile, mark your calendar for our next event on June 23rd at the always fashionable KDDI Designing Studio in Harajuku with a Texting 2.0 theme. We’ve lined-up an interesting company to demo their touch screen input and translation software and are looking forward to hear from a senior Nuance representative regarding the future roadmap of their T9 predictive text entry product.

Thank you all for coming out to our MoMo Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards event on March 24 at Shinsei Bank. We had a lot of very cool and innovative products presented! Congrats to the three winning companies and thanks to everyone involved for making it such a great evening. The video is now online Here.

Our next MoMo Tokyo event, April 21st, will focus on ‘Solving big problems on small devices - Google’s approach to the mobile internet evolution’. We’re looking forward to welcome our key mobile industry members for what promises to be an interesting presentation.

John Lagerling, Strategic Partner Development Manager, Google
John Lagerling is responsible for Google’s mobile business development activities in Japan. He has forged key partnerships with the major carriers in Japan, including NTT DoCoMo and KDDI as well as the major handset manufacturers. In parallel he is responsible for expanding the mobile ad-network in Japan, including partnerships Mobile SNS sites Mixi and GREE.

By all accounts the MoMo Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards held on Monday evening was a fantastic event and we would like to thank everyone involved for making it one of our best gatherings ever. Hearty congrats are in order for the winners and complete respect offered to all of the candidate companies who stepped-up to participate. Honorable mentions for two surprise guest speakers are also in order; Nina Norlund, former biz dev. mgr at HP Bazaar, who helped us get the MoMo Tokyo chapter rolling and Faraz Syed, CEO of Mobile Complete, a past winner at MobileMonday 2007 Global Peer Awards.

We would like to pass along a very special thanks to our esteemed judges; Stephan Burke from Mobile Content Networks, Yurie Horita from Impress R&D, Hitomi Murakami from Seikei University, Masaaki Suga from Cybird Ventures and Martyn Williams from IDG News as well as Patrick Bray from GeoVector who served admirably as our MC for the night. We would also like to offer our most sincere gratitude to the great people at Shinsei Bank who provided an awesome venue, the folks at Infinita who built this groovy mobile voting site and finally, of course, everyone who attended. Yoroshiku!

Heads-up to all innovative mobile start-up companies in Japan: While the 3rd annual MoMo Global Summit in Helsinki last September seems like only yesterday, we’re already looking forward to Kuala Lumpur, in mid-May. The Global Peer Awards will play a central part in the Malaysia Global Summit, so we are calling for submissions from […]