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...Just months into office, Habeck had to deal with the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its subsequent suspension of gas supplies to Europe....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Nissan Motor, DBS, DeNA, Tabcorp, Singtel, Shiseido and Inpex....
...“Our main clients are big companies in Japan, and for them it makes a huge difference whether a company they deal with is listed or not....
...“It’s not an exclusive deal with Uber . . . We are hoping to close the deal with others.”...
...Nintendo has partnered with Japanese mobile gaming developer DeNA for a series of promised game launches....
...Nintendo and DeNA are aiming to release five mobile titles by March 2017. The investment came shortly after a leadership change at Nintendo....
...(FT) Japan road tests driverless taxi Japanese social gaming giant DeNA is joining the race to put a driverless car on the road....
...Since announcing the deal, Nintendo’s shares have risen 40 per cent....
...DeNA will also purchase 1.24 per cent of Nintendo shares....
...Since his re-election in December, the prime minister has notched up an important victory: a deal for agricultural reform....
...Mr Downie was most recently chief executive for the American and European division of DeNA, a Japanese mobile gaming company....
...DeNA saw pre-tax profits rise by almost a third on revenue up almost 40 per cent for the year to March, while Nexon, a pioneer of the freemium business model, reported a sales increase of nearly a quarter...
...DeNA and Gree have both signed deals to supply games through Yahoo’s Japanese web portal, and Gree is working with Mixi, a Japanese social network that has wilted under assault from Facebook....
...It has also struck a deal with Tencent, China’s leading internet gaming company, to allow games to be played across both platforms....
...Additional reporting by Dena El-Sisy...
...Additional reporting by Dena Elsisy, and Michael Peel and Abigail Fielding-Smith in Damascus...
...Ngmoco has won the same deal with DeNA, with $100m of the deal dependent upon reaching performance milestones by the end of next year....
...“These deals were about getting access to a specific expertise and position in the market,” he said. The Ngmoco deal, for example, gives DeNA an entry into the US market....
...“Say a client is interested in doing a deal in Korea. We put them in touch with another client who wants to do the same.”...
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