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...capitalist, Tohru Akaura, alongside advertising giant Dentsu, Japan Airlines, telecoms company KDDI and more recently Katsunori Sago, SoftBank’s former chief strategy officer....
...But the real boom is in Weathernews’s involvement in a number of experiments in which some of Japan’s biggest corporations have large stakes....
...Take-up has been slow, however, so wireless carriers including KDDI are getting inventive with some low-cost options for cash-strapped small businesses and local governments....
...Over the past couple of years, both the Japanese government and its corporations have laid out plans for this revolution — one that could fundamentally reshape and revitalise the world’s third-largest economy...
...Of Japan’s corporate backers, Mr Riney highlights KDDI Corporation as “one of the more progressive of the old guard”....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Sony, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, KDDI, Honda Motor, Power Grid Corporation of India, Sanrio and Yamaha....
...Corporation (8053:TYO)....
...KDDI and Sumitomo Corporation are launching a Y216bn ($2.7bn) takeover bid for Jupiter Telecommunications, the cable group, and merging their cable interests, in a deal that will create a cable television...
.../ Sumitomo / A1 (local) / Myanmar ICT Development Corporation ● Orange / Marubeni ● Orascom / EPIC ● Airtel ● First Pacific ● SK Telecoms / Red Link ● Millicom ● Qatar Telecom / Ooredoo...
...In 1996, with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, SoftBank set up a 50:50 joint venture in satellite broadcasting called JSkyB....
...The offer is effectively creating a rare public battle between two blue-chip Japanese corporations over control of a third, although Sumitomo and KDDI might yet negotiate a partnership....
...Carlyle and Kyocera bought a combined 90 per cent of Willcom from KDDI for Y220bn in 2004. The remaining stake was kept by KDDI....
...KDDI, the Japanese telecoms group, has been rumoured to be interested in a bid for Telecity to help expand its own data centre division and take advantage of the yen’s strength....
...Liberty controls JCom through a joint venture with Sumitomo Corporation, but that arrangement was due to expire in February....
...“I have great expectations for a man whose managerial skill built Kyocera and KDDI in a single lifetime.”...
...The telecom operator KDDI fell by 16.4 per cent to Y480,000. Among blue-chip exporters, Canon lost 6.9 per cent to Y3,100 and Sony was down 5.4 per cent to Y2,385....
...NTT has high labour costs, a legacy of its days as a state-run corporation....
...BT Group and KDDI Corporation will on Monday unveil plans for a joint venture that will enable them to provide and manage global communications networks for leading Japanese companies....
...DoCoMo may have turned the corner in August: for the first time it gained more 3G subscribers than KDDI....
...Losers included KDDI, the second-biggest telecoms company, after its rival, NTT DoCoMo, said AT&T Wireless of the US would incorporate its “W-CDMA” format. KDDI fell 3.6 per cent to Y512,000....
...Seven’s contracts include deals with Japan’s KDDI and NTT DoCoMo, Cingular and Sprint in the US and Orange and O2 in the UK....
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