Company History
2004
| May | The company was established in Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, with the provision of services to facilitate communication within companies as its business purpose (capita stockl: 10 million yen). |
| May | Robot Secretary (customizable groupware for companies) service launched (still in use). |
| October | Head office relocated from Roppongi to Uchikanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. |
| October | Developed applications etc. for NTT videophone service (services for companies using NTT’s “Flet’s Phone”), and launched videoconferencing service for convenience stores. |
2006
| May | Head office relocated from Uchikanda to Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. |
| August | Head office relocated from Uchisaiwaicho to Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo. |
2007
| July | Head office relocated from Nishi-Shinbashi to Yutenji, Meguro-ku, Tokyo. |
2008
| September | Received the award for excellence in the Japan Telework Association’s 9th Telework Promotion Awards. |
2009
| June | Signed an agreement with Wakayama Prefecture and Tanabe City to establish a branch office in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture. |
| July | Head office relocated from Yutenji to Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. |
| December | Start of the Ubiquitous Special Zone Project “Ubiquitous, the proof-of-concept for the international standardization of tourism information”. |
2010
| November | Entered into an agreement with HyperOffice, a US company, for the exclusive distribution, resale and development rights of HyperOffice (a collaboration tool used by more than 300,000 people around the world) in Japan and Asia, and launched the service. |
2011
| October | Social learning service “OpenSkySchool” (current service name “Drill”, Ver. 1.0) launched. |
2012
| January | Registered as application developer for the “Hikari i-frame” Android tablet series provided by NTT East. |
| January | As a White Level Partner, entered into a premium reseller agreement with Vidyo Inc., a US company, for the selling of the leading teleconferencing solution “Vidyo”, and began sales. |
| February | Concluded a distributorship agreement with NTT Advanced Technology Corporation for the conference microphone speaker “R-Talk” series and started sales. |
| March | Started providing energy management services (bathing facilities and sensor management: still in use) |
| November | Agreement with HyperOffice as the Asian development partner for the joint development of their new service “Share.to”. |
2013
| January | Signed a software license agreement with Vidyo Inc., and began providing services as a hosting service provider as well. |
| January | Formed a business alliance with I-NET Corporation for cloud service business. Joint development of Dream Office (HyperOffice) and MobileMeets (Vidyo). |
| August | Selected as 2013’s Small and Medium Enterprise Sales Force Enhancement Support Model Business of the Regional Vitality Application Market Acquisition Support Project. |
| November | Dream Office (HyperOffice) and MobileMeets (Vidyo) registered in MINONARUKI, Hitachi Systems, Ltd.’s open cloud marketplace. |
2014
| September | Head office relocated from Hatanodai to Hiratsuka, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. |
| December | Acquired WICKS Corporation (established November 2011), a bidirectional M2M radio wave utilization company that uses white space frequencies. |
2015
| January | Service partnership agreement with HyperOffice regarding cutting-edge services Atlas and Share.to (development monopoly for IP Dream). |
| April | HyperOffice becomes a wholly owned subsidiary. |
| May | Tekuchuru KK becomes a wholly owned subsidiary (merger in Aug. 2015) |
2017
| June | Head office relocated from Hiratsuka to Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. |
2018
| February | Joint exhibition at the Mobile World Congress 2018 (Barcelona) with partner company Neus Mobile Limited (Share.to and multilingual simultaneous translation and interpretation service SmaLingual) |
| June | License agreement with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) for the use of their multilingual translation engine. |
2019
| April | Formed strategic alliance with VirnetX Inc., a US company, to develop the Gabriel service. |
| June | License agreement with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) for the use of their multilingual translation engine. |
| July | Strategic Alliance with Bolt Mobility Corporation, a US company, related to electric mobility business. |
| October | Exhibited SmaLingual (multilingual simultaneous translation and interpretation service) at a National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Global Communication Development Promotion Council area booth at CEATEC2019. |
| November | Selected as one of the “100 Best Telework Pioneers” by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in FY2019. |
2020
| February | Signed an exclusive contract with Bolt Mobility Corporation for the development and manufacture of electric mobility, exclusive operation in Japan and Asia, and consulting. |
| September | Head office relocated from Nishi-Gotanda to Nishi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. |
2021
| January | Concluded exclusive development agreements with Bolt Mobility Corporation, Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions, Hitachi Terminal Mechatronics, and Hitachi Cable, Ltd. |