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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing : Internet |
| Founded | Tokyo, Japan (1993) |
| Headquarters | Omotesando, Tokyo |
| Key people | Mark Devlin CEO & Publisher Mary Devlin, Deputy CEO, Co-founder |
| Products | Metropolis : Crisscross News |
| Website | www.crisscross.com |
- This article is about a company; for other meanings, see Criss Cross.
Crisscross K.K. is a privately held company based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1993 by Mark and Mary Devlin.
The company was formed to publish Tokyo Classified, a weekly classified ads freepaper for Tokyo's English-speaking community., the first issue was published on February 26, 1994, as a four-page classified ad sheet. The magazine, which was renamed to Metropolis in 2003, has a distribution of 30,000 copies each week throughout Tokyo, Kanagawa and Chiba, certified by Japan's Audit Bureau of Circulations. Over the years the magazine's content has expanded to include features and commentaries about life in Japan, extensive Tokyo events listings, bar and restaurant reviews, and hundreds of classified ads.
From February 1994 to January 2000 the company also operated Crisscross Internet, an Internet Provider business that allowed customers to connect to the Internet anonymously (no user name or password required) via a premium-rate telephone number.,
In June 2000, Crisscross started Japan Today, an interactive news site. In December 2005, the Company expanded its news coverage to include U.S. and world news and renamed the site "Crisscross News". The news site name reverted back to Japan Today in October 2006.
In March 2006 the company launched Crisscross, a social networking service that lets users compare and link profile information such as their life goals and favorite items. The site makes use of tags.
Crisscross KK also operates a boutique creative agency, called Crisscross Creative.
References
- "The Best Ads in Life are Free". Asahi Evening News. 1997. Retrieved 2007-01-27.
- ^ "Coming of Age (feature on Metropolis history)". Metropolis. 2003. Retrieved 2007-01-27.
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"Mark Devlin speech to Entrepreneurs' Association of Tokyo". Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo. September, 2004. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
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"Metropolis Audit Bureau of Circulations certificate". metropolis.co.jp. Jul-Dec, 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Crisscross Interent homepage from Internet Archive". Crisscross K.K. 2000. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- "Japan Today". Japan Today. 2003. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
- "Crisscross: International Friends Network". crisscross.com. 2003. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
- "Keeping in Touch". Newsweek. May 15, 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
- "Crisscross Creative". Crisscross Creative. February 4, 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-04.