| 2000-06 |
Founded in Minami, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| 2000-06 |
Founded Media Socket Co., Ltd. (Minami, Minato-ku, Tokyo) |
| 2000-08 |
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| 2000-08 |
Provide multimedia greeting mail service for mobile phones |
| 2001-02 |
Music Database Development |
| 2001-02 |
Provide mood-search ringtone service and develop music database |
| 2001-03 |
Headquarters moved to Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo |
| 2001-12 |
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| 2001-12 |
Develop Java mail application for mobile phones |
| 2002-12 |
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| 2002-12 |
Establish a U.S. subsidiary in Silicon Valley |
| 2003-04 |
Received the Best Award in the Communication App Division (also received the same award in 2005 and 2006) |
| 2003-04 |
Received the Best Communication App Award at the U.S. BREW AWARD (2005 and 2006) |
| 2004-12 |
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| 2004-12 |
Developed the world's first commercial music recognition mobile phone application |
| 2005-03 |
Headquarters moved to Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| 2005-06 |
Collaborated with KDDI |
| 2005-06 |
Collaborated with KDDI on music search service application |
| 2005-10 |
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| 2005-10 |
Provide mobile phone mail service 'Deco Girl' |
| 2006-09 |
Capital and Business Partnership with KDDI |
| 2007-01 |
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| 2007-01 |
Develop 'au Music Player' |
| 2007-02 |
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| 2007-02 |
Provide 'LISMO Music Search' |
| 2007-08 |
Renamed to Sokets Co., Ltd. |
| 2008-06 |
Developed MSDB and provided 'LISMO VIDEO Search' |
| 2008-06 |
Developed a video database (MSDB) and provided 'LISMO VIDEO Search' |
| 2009-03 |
Provided to NTT Docomo |
| 2009-03 |
Provide comic search service to NTT Docomo |
| 2009-04 |
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| 2009-04 |
Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers |
| 2009-05 |
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| 2009-05 |
Develop 'au Book Player' |
| 2009-08 |
Headquarters moved to Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo |
| 2010-06 |
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| 2010-06 |
Obtained Privacy Mark |
| 2010-10 |
Provided to Rakuten Books |
| 2010-10 |
Provide recommendation service to Rakuten Books |
| 2011-01 |
Joint venture with KDDI for 'LISMO WAVE' |
| 2011-01 |
Joint venture with KDDI for internet Simul FM broadcast service 'LISMO WAVE' |
| 2011-09 |
Provided to TSUTAYA ONLINE |
| 2011-09 |
Provide recommendation service to TSUTAYA ONLINE |
| 2012-04 |
Provided to UNEXT |
| 2012-04 |
Provide recommendation service to UNEXT |
| 2012-08 |
Underwrote a third-party allotment of capital at T.C.FACTORY |
| 2012-08 |
Underwrote third-party allotment of additional capital (became subsidiary) at T.C.FACTORY |
| 2013-06 |
Launch of LIFE's radio |
| 2013-06 |
Launch of personal radio 'LIFE's radio' |
| 2013-08 |
Partnered with Culture Convenience Club |
| 2013-08 |
Capital and business partnership with Culture Convenience Club |
| 2013-09 |
Co-founded with Culture Convenience Club |
| 2013-09 |
Establishment of a joint venture with Culture Convenience Club Inc. |
| 2014-01 |
Provided to Yahoo! Search |
| 2014-01 |
Providing person profile information to Yahoo! Search |
| 2014-05 |
Partnered with Recochek Co., Ltd. |
| 2014-05 |
Provided to au Video Pass |
| 2014-05 |
Strategic business partnership with Recochoku Inc., providing recommendation service to au Video Pass |
| 2015-05 |
Provided to NTT Docomo dHits |
| 2015-05 |
Providing personalized recommendation service to NTT Docomo dHits |
| 2016-02 |
Provided to Recochek Best |
| 2016-02 |
Providing personalized recommendation service to Recochoku Best |
| 2016-08 |
Provided to Rakuten Music |
| 2016-08 |
Providing music database, recommendation engine, and music distribution system to Rakuten Music |
| 2016-10 |
Provided to NTT Docomo dHits R powered by Recochek |
| 2016-10 |
Providing new recommendation service to NTT Docomo dHits R powered by Recochoku |
| 2017-01 |
Provided to LINE MUSIC |
| 2017-01 |
Providing recommendation service to LINE MUSIC |
| 2017-03 |
Partnered with Fisco Co., Ltd. |
| 2017-03 |
Capital and business partnership with Fisco Inc. |
| 2017-05 |
Provided to Hulu (Japan) |
| 2017-05 |
Providing video database to Hulu (Japan) |
| 2017-08 |
Provided Artist Analytics to record label companies |
| 2017-08 |
Providing 'Artist Analytics', a production planning analysis using affective AI for label companies |
| 2017-09 |
Providing new recommendation service to KDDI Uta Pass |
| 2017-10 |
Provided to Yahoo! Search |
| 2017-10 |
Providing music database to Yahoo! Search |
| 2017-12 |
Provided to NTT Docomo |
| 2017-12 |
Licensing person database to NTT Docomo |
| 2018-04 |
Provided to J:COM TV |
| 2018-04 |
Started providing broadcast data to J:COM TV |
| 2018-07 |
Started providing SOCKETS person database for goo Dictionary |
| 2018-07 |
Started providing SOCKETS person database to goo Dictionary |
| 2018-11 |
Started providing for LINE LIVE karaoke feature |
| 2018-11 |
Started providing synchronized lyric data for LINE LIVE karaoke feature |
| 2019-04 |
Started providing to Shiseido |
| 2019-04 |
Started providing affective metadata to Shiseido |
| 2019-06 |
Provided to Dinoss Cessil |
| 2019-06 |
Started providing metadata attribution service to Dinoss Cessil. |
| 2019-07 |
Started providing to milplus (Miru Plus) |
| 2019-07 |
Started licensing the video search system to milplus (Miru Plus). |
| 2019-09 |
Released the first Japanese 'Music Analytics' beta version |
| 2019-09 |
Released the beta version of Japan's first music-specialized analytics service 'Music Analytics'. |
| 2019-11 |
Started development and provision of 'metα (Metalfa)' |
| 2019-11 |
Started developing and providing the value-added experiential search and recommendation service 'metα (Metalufa)'. |
| 2020-06 |
Started paid version of 'Music Analytics' service |
| 2020-06 |
Started providing the paid version of the music-specialized analytics service 'Music Analytics'. |
| 2020-08 |
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| 2020-08 |
Started providing to ABEMA |
| 2020-08 |
Changed listing market to the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and started licensing video data to ABEMA. |
| 2020-10 |
Started management of 'Monokuru' |
| 2020-10 |
Started managing artist 'Monocule'. |
| 2021-03 |
Started providing to dTV |
| 2021-03 |
Started licensing video and person data to dTV. |
| 2021-05 |
Started providing to Shueisha |
| 2021-05 |
Started providing affective metadata to Shueisha. |
| 2021-11 |
Started providing 'emoα (Emorufa)' |
| 2021-11 |
Started providing the affective metadata generation service 'emoα (Emorufa)'. |
| 2022-01 |
Started providing to Hikari TV |
| 2022-01 |
Started providing video data to Hikari TV. |
| 2022-06 |
Started commercial service of 'Trig's' |
| 2022-06 |
Commercially launched the cookie-less affective targeting advertising service 'Trig’s'. |
| 2022-09 |
Started providing video data to Paravi. |
| 2022-09 |
Started providing video data to FOD. |
| 2023-12 |
Partnered with ORIGRESS PARKS Co., Ltd. |
| 2023-12 |
Entered into a capital and business alliance with ORIGRESS PARKS Co., Ltd. |
| 2024-02 |
Signed with LyricFind Inc. |
| 2024-02 |
Signed a partnership agreement with LyricFind Inc. |
| 2024-07 |
Developed and provided data to support sales growth of video streaming services |
| 2024-07 |
Developed data to support sales growth of video streaming services and started providing a video-content-specialized data feed service. |
| 2025-03 |
Started providing to Daiichi Kōshō |
| 2025-03 |
Developed and collaborated on an outdoor advertising operation video ad service using Sensory AI |
| 2025-03 |
Started providing music data to Daiichi Kōshō, developed the first domestic outdoor digital advertising operation video advertising service using affective AI, and began collaboration with domestic outdoor advertising giant Keishion. |
| 2025-06 |
Relocated to Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo |
| 2025-06 |
Relocated headquarters to Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. |
| 2025-11 |
Established CROSS TALK |
| 2025-11 |
Launched owned media content CROSS TALK. |
| 2025-12 |
Opened the 'Asia Preparation Office' in Fukuoka City to strengthen the business foundation for regional revitalization and the Asian market. |
| 2026-02 |
Launched development and provision of the DMP 'MSDB Bridge', specialized in IP content and entertainment. |
