GeoTechnologies' Move-to-earn app rapidly gained popularity in Japan has surpassed 23 million downloads worldwide
TOKYO, JAPAN - Media OutReach Newswire - 12 June 2025 - GeoTechnologies, Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo Japan, President & CEO: Yoichiro Yatsurugi), has announced that move-to-earn apps 'TRIMA' and 'GeoSmile' surpassed twenty-three million cumulative downloads worldwide.
Move-to-earn app that rapidly gained popularity in Japan has surpassed 23 million downloads worldwide
Expanding the Japanese move-to-earn app to the world
'TRIMA', which has twenty-two million downloads in Japan, has established a solid position as the de-facto standard for move-to-earn apps. TRIMA users can earn points based on their movement and those data are analyzed by 29 universities in Japan. They are seeking how to improve the safety, efficiency, and productivity of citizens in Japan. TRIMA is the first to introduce the concept of move-to-earn apps to Japan. Based on this success, we launched 'GeoSmile' worldwide as a global version of 'TRIMA' in 2023.
Contributing to society through collaboration with academic institutions
'TRIMA' people flow data is used in research in various fields such as disaster prevention, crime prevention, urban development, and tourism, with the aim to establish a more livable environment in Japan that considers regional characteristics.
Growth in the US market
GeoSmile, which debuted in the US market about two years ago, has also continued to grow steadily and is expected to reach one million downloads soon. To celebrate this milestone, we will run a special campaign.
Yoichiro Yatsurugi, President and CEO of GeoTechnologies, Inc., says, 'TRIMA introduced the concept of 'move-to-earn' to Japan. Now, it is contributing to making Japan a more livable place through people flow analysis beyond the concept of simply earning points. This approach was also launched in the United States about two years ago, and we are reaching one million downloads. This is an important step in expanding the circle of social contribution in Japan to the United States, and we are very excited for further growth in the future'.
Yas Watanabe, Chief Executive of LAJET Business Consulting LLC, comments, 'I have been studying the success of GeoTechnologies' TRIMA in Japan. TRIMA has become a tool to improve users' daily lives beyond the concept of simply earning points. When the GeoSmile business in the United States continues to develop, I am confident that TRIMA's knowledge will be utilized to help improve lifestyles in the United States. The achievement of one million downloads in the United States is an important step'.
GeoSmile 1 million downloads commemorative campaign
Lucky 10 users will win 1 million points (100USD value) by lottery
Points can be earned twice as fast as usual based on distance moved!
Collective 1-million-mile challenge
Points exchanged by 20 users will be refunded every day by lottery
Please visit the campaign website ( https://www.geosmile.app/1-million-downloads-campaign ) for further details.
Campaign Teams and Condition ( 1 million downloads campaign | GeoSmile - M2E App )
Hashtag: #GeoTechnologies
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
About GeoTechnologies
We have been providing reliable digital maps of Japan since our founding in 1994. We are one of the first to provide maps for AD/ADAS, which are essential for realizing advanced autonomous driving, as well as car navigation systems, map data for businesses, and location information solutions. In addition, through interactions with users of applications such as the move-to-earn app 'TRIMA' released in 2020, it is becoming possible to grasp 'insights' of real-world situations in real time such as human movements or the consciousness behind them. By combining vast amounts of big data, including people flow, with geospatial data that we have been accumulating over approximately thirty years and analyzing them using cutting-edge technology, we aim to provide 'insights at this very moment' and contribute to society by creating a more comfortable and sustainable world.
Download GeoSmile App
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1642245321
Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.geot.trimaglobal
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
21 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Wall Street's $45 Billion Hong Kong Comeback Has a Dangerous Catch
Hong Kong is back in the game. After years of silence, the city's IPO machine is firing on all cylinderspowered by a surge in Chinese capital raising. CATL, China's battery giant, led the way with a $5.2 billion listing to fund its Hungarian factory supplying Mercedes and BMW. BYD (BYDDF), a major Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) competitor, raised $5.6 billion to fuel global expansion. In total, over $45 billion has been raised through listings and placements this yearup from just $6.3 billion a year ago. The Hang Seng Index is up 24%, outpacing US and European markets. Equity desks at Morgan Stanley, Credit Agricole, and local powerhouses like Citic are packed. One law firm partner said they're turning away deals and hiring to keep up with the pipeline. The momentum looks durable, with more than 200 IPOs in the works and a rebound in office leasing that's luring firms like Jane Street, Ardian, and Arga back into the city. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 2 Warning Sign with JD. But this isn't just a story about capital. It's a story about control. Beijing is tightening its gripand Hong Kong is now the bridge for China to access global markets, not the other way around. Chinese regulators have slowed US listing approvals while actively loosening capital controls in Hong Kong. That shift has tipped the scales: nearly 70% of new listings this year come from mainland firms already listed onshore, up from just 2% in 2023. Officials are pushing harder than evereasing float rules, accelerating cross-border flows, and publicly calling for market reform. Behind the scenes, Wall Street firms are jumping in, but also navigating landmines. When CATL tapped JPMorgan and Bank of America as lead underwriters, US lawmakers lashed out, warning of significant reputational and regulatory risks. Jamie Dimon stood his groundbut subpoenas followed. The pressure isn't letting up. And that's the catch. This boom isn't just cyclicalit's strategic. China's corporate heavyweights, facing deflation and domestic saturation, are expanding overseas. Factories. M&A. Global brand building. Hong Kong is the fundraising pit stop. But the tighter the city links itself to Beijing's playbook, the more exposed it becomes. With Trump extending a pause on tariffs (for now) and trade talks warming up, markets are breathing easier. But risks remain. Washington sanctions are stacking up. Multinationals are using burner phones. And Beijing's political shadow looms larger than ever. One former Wall Street chairman put it bluntly: this isn't a revival of Hong Kong's global statusit's a repositioning. A rally, yes. But one with strings attached. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
21 minutes ago
- Yahoo
JD.com Q2 Earnings Preview: What to Expect From Upcoming Report
Aug 13 - (NASDAQ:JD) is gearing up to report its second-quarter results on Thursday, August 14, before the market opens, and Wall Street is bracing for a sharp drop in profits. Analysts project earnings of $0.49 per share, down 62% from last year, even as revenue is expected to climb 16.4% to $46.69 billion. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 2 Warning Sign with JD. The Chinese e-commerce leader has been a consistent overachiever, beating EPS estimates for eight straight quarters and topping revenue forecasts nearly 90% of the time. This quarter, though, the tone is different. Over the past three months, analysts have issued 12 downward revisions to EPS forecasts with zero upward changes, signaling concerns over margins. On the flip side, revenue expectations actually improved, with 16 upward revisions, a sign that sales momentum remains strong despite profit pressures. Investors will be closely watching management's take on China's consumer spending, economic backdrop, and JD's performance across retail, logistics, and new business segments. shares are down nearly 7% year-to-date, lagging rivals. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Sign in to access your portfolio
CNN
23 minutes ago
- CNN
Beneath Trump's China truce, a race to find pressure points in high stakes game of ‘3D chess'
The United States and China have settled into a steady state of pragmatic, if uneasy, détente. Tariffs sit at unprecedented, but not economically debilitating levels. Three rounds of bilateral talks have steadily developed and expanded, with a fourth expected this fall. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are circling an in person meeting before the end of the year. 'I don't think anyone wants to see those tariffs snap back to 84%,' US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said ahead of Trump's decision to sign off on a 90-day extension of the trade truce agreement put into place in May. But beneath the surface, Trump's trade war has dramatically accelerated efforts to find and demonstrate an ability to exploit vulnerabilities that will define the future of the relationship and shape the potential conflict for years ahead. China's grip on rare-earth elements, critical for electronics, defense equipment and other crucial products, has triggered an urgent scramble across the US government and its allies. Despite an agreement that China would unlock the supply of rare earths, US officials and corporate executives with knowledge of the acquisition and export process say there remain difficulties for critical industries, exceedingly granular demands for corporate data and a seemingly implicit effort to choke off some national security related purchases. 'It was a wakeup call to the world,' a senior White House officials said. 'That was a major thing in world geopolitics.' Xi's ability the choke off western access to essential components has become the dominant topic of discussion during all three rounds of bilateral talks so far. 'We're focused on making sure that the flow of magnets from China to the United States and the and the adjacent supply chain can flow as freely as as it did before the control,' said Greer, leading up to Trump's extension of the pause, as US and Chinese continued intensive technical discussions behind the scenes. 'And I'd say we're about halfway there.' At the same time, US technological advantages have sparked sharp rebukes and a push to rapidly ramp up capabilities in Beijing. The United States also probed clear choke points in supply for industries critical to China's economy. America imposed export controls for software tools, aerospace equipment and the sale of ethane, a major petroleum byproduct for China. The actions weren't heavily publicized – most of the coverage came from corporate securities filings or leaks from frenzied executives. Some of those executives were Republican donors, people familiar with the matter said, and raised concerns directly to Washington. The lobbying appeared to have little effect, as US officials leveraged the economic pressure as an unequivocal counter to China's rare-earth actions in the second round of bilateral talks. They were maintained in the immediate aftermath as US officials continued to press for quicker action on the matter. Shortly before the July 4th holiday, US Commerce officials notified major ethane producers the export controls had been rescinded. 'I am informing you that effective as of the date of this letter, the license requirements set forth in my June 1, 2025 and June 25, 2025 letters are hereby rescinded,' a top export administration official wrote in the notification letter sent July 2 to Enterprise Products Partners. Over the last several weeks, Trump clinched a rolling series of bilateral trade frameworks that have included explicit commitments to shore up US supply chain vulnerabilities and implicit agreements to shift production, supply chains and security assets away from Chinese influence. New penalties for 'transshipped' products – an additional 40% tariff on goods shipped from a high-tariff country to a lower tariff country prior to export to the US – have been put into place, with new regulations expanding their reach forthcoming. At the same time, China has grown more aggressive in pushing against regional players in territorial disputes as US officials have used Trump's brute-force tariff approach to build a nascent but deeply consequential new alignment that breaks from the global trading system the president has long pilloried. Even student visas for Chinese citizens have been leveraged for effect. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trump's lead negotiator in three rounds of trade talks with China, has told associates it's the equivalent of 'three-dimensional chess.' Bessent insists that the US now holds a clear advantage – a message he said he delivered directly to his Chinese counterparts last month during two days of negotiations in Stockholm, Sweden. 'I just said the world's with us now,' 'It looked in April, May like that the US was alone against the world,' Bessent said during a policy event with Breitbart news shortly after he returned from the third round of US-China trade talks. 'Now that we've done deals with our top trading partners, we have a lot more leverage.' The near-term goal, US officials say, is to utilize any leverage to accomplish Trump's overarching desire to secure a major trade deal with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping. Trump's trade agreements sharply diverge from any traditional 'trade deal' format and each remain devoid of the granular detail that historically takes years for negotiators to hammer out. There are significant questions about how much of what Trump has announced will actually become reality, according to diplomats and former trade officials, though administration officials say the threat of future tariffs serve as the ultimate dispute mechanism. But the decidedly Trumpian bespoke nature of the deals includes a series of significant commitments from countries like Japan and South Korea to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to the US for the explicit purpose of shoring up US supply chain vulnerabilities. Bessent, in an interview on Fox Business this week, described the unprecedented arrangement designed to use foreign capital for investments entirely subject to Trump's discretion as a way 'other countries are, in essence, providing us with a sovereign wealth fund.' 'We will be able to direct them as we re-shore these critical industries,' Bessent said. 'We are trying to de-risk the US economy.' Trump and his advisers have framed the size and structure of the commitments as a way for foreign partners to 'pay down' or 'buy out' of a higher tariff rate in bilateral talks. That option, however, is not on the table for Xi or his negotiators. 'The funds from the buyout are going to go to critical industries that we need to reshore,' Bessent said. 'And a lot of those need to be reshored away from China.' Still, the Trump's version of trade deals have created friction with the very partners viewed as a necessity in any new trade alliance to counter China's economic strength. Japanese officials have raised concerns with the way the structure and delivery have been framed by US officials, which in turn created domestic backlash for the critical Indo Pacific ally. 'The other party is not a normal person,' Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said of Trump earlier this month to members of parliament demanding details of the US-Japan agreement. 'In negotiations like this, implementation is far more difficult than reaching an agreement.' Ishiba's comment wasn't framed as a criticism, but instead a candid expression of reality. 'It's a feature, not a bug,' a senior administration official said of how the administration took the comments. 'He's stating a fact, and one that we use to our advantage.' But the rapidly evolving tools deployed across economic, security and diplomatic actions – since Trump initially triggered a de facto trade embargo between the two nations – has laid bare a far more existential reality: Trump needs China. The bilateral agreement to extend the temporary trade war truce this week came after a third round of negotiations framed by both sides as positive. Trump's advisers regularly cite his 'excellent' personal relationship with Xi and continue to weigh the possibility of a face-to-face meeting in China later this year. But, to accomplish that peace, Trump gave the green light for US companies to sell less-advanced artificial intelligence chips to China, drawing the ire of hawks within his own party. 'If he doesn't reverse this decision, it may be remembered as the moment when America surrendered the technological advantage needed to bring manufacturing home and keep our nation secure,' Matt Pottinger, Trump's first term deputy national security adviser, wrote this week with Liza Tobin, who served as China director on the National Security Council in during Trump's first term and under former President Joe Biden. Trump officials counter that the chips represent lower-tier technology and the highest end of the US chip stack isn't will remain blocked. More critically, they say, Chinese access to the chips would anchor the rapidly developing global AI race to US technology at the same time Trump, in a series of Oval Office meetings and calls over the last several weeks the CEOs of the largest tech firms in the world, has offered exemptions from forthcoming semiconductor tariffs in exchange for commitments to manufacture in the US. 'His objective is to get semiconductor manufacturing done here of our best technology and that way we can control it the best,' Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said last week. 'That's the strategy.'
