December 7th, 2018Japanese electronics firm Pioneer become a wholly owned unit of a Hong Kong-based fund in a deal worth $904 million.
Pioneer, known for its audio equipment as well as car electronics systems, said Baring Private Equity Asia has agreed on a 102-billion-yen ($904 million) plan to revive the struggling Tokyo-based company.
Baring will...
November 22nd, 2018Japan’s investment major Softbank investment Advisers, which invests through the SoftBank Vision Fund, is looking forward to deepening its play in India’s technology ecosystem, and thus, the company has announced plans to open an office in Mumbai in India.
For this purpose, the company has even roped in Sumer Juneja to lead the...
October 29th, 2018A Singapore-based AI company AnyMind Group has secured funds amounting to $13.4 million in a funding round. This round was led by Line, the Japanese messaging app firm, and Mirai Creation Fund, which is backed by Toyota among others.
The company that uses AI in online advertising, HR and marketing is planning to use these funds for...
October 22nd, 2018Paytm has launched a QR-based smartphone payment settlement service in Japan called PayPay in collaboration with SoftBank and Yahoo Japan Corporation.
Paytm had formed a joint venture called ‘PayPay’ corporation with SoftBank and Yahoo Japan, and its first offering is a smartphone-based settlement service that allows users to...
October 9th, 2018The budget hospitality chain OYO has been expanding to various countries for a long time. After China, Australia and many other countries, the company is now foraying into Japan which is the world’s third-largest economy.
The Gurugram-based hotel chain lately raised $800 million in its latest round of funding that was led...
August 3rd, 2018As per the latest report, World's second-biggest economy China lost its second position as the world's second-biggest stock market by Japan.
The latest market figure shows the total Chinese stock market worth USD 6.09 trillion, compared with USD 6.17 trillion in Japan.
The US stock market is leading in the world with the total...
January 27th, 2018Coincheck, a Japanese cryptocurrency wallet and exchange service, confirmed in a release that over $500 million worth of digital cryptocurrency, NEM tokens has been stolen, in the world's biggest crypto hack.
As per the reports by Bloomberg, which attended the conference in Tokyo, Chuo Ward, Shingo Katsukutani, Coincheck Inc said that...
October 21st, 2017A Japanese software company is suing Apple Inc in a U.S. court over the trademark for the term “animoji”, alleging the U.S. technology company stole the name to use on a feature of its iPhone X.
Tokyo-based Emonster kk sued Apple on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, saying it holds the U.S. trademark on the term animoji...
October 20th, 2017Chris Lane thinks investors haven't realised what Masayoshi Son is trying to do at SoftBank Group Corp.
The Sanford C. Bernstein analyst just initiated coverage of the Japanese company with an “outperform” rating and a forecast that shares could rally 36% over the next year. Investors still see SoftBank as primarily a...
August 18th, 2017On-demand payments and e-commerce platform for small and medium businesses Instamojo has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-series B funding from Japanese payments firm, AnyPay.
The funding marks AnyPays foray into the Indian investment market.
Founded in 2012, Instamojo enables over 3,00,000 SMEs to build, manage and grow their...
May 27th, 2017To promote electric vehicles on a mass scale, the government is holding initial talks with Japanese investment firm SoftBank for low interest funding of 2 lakh electric buses for public transport, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said here today.
India wants to cut down on a ballooning Rs 7 lakh crore crude import bill, the minister said,...
