Tag Archives: Japan
PayPal and SOFTBANK announced today that the two companies plan to establish a joint 50:50 venture company, “PayPal Japan”, to build a digital payments business in order to build the future of commerce in Japan. Both companies planning to invest equally in the joint venture the amount of JPY1 billion (about $12.5 million) each, with representing an aggregate investment...
According to Japan’s chief financial officer Toshiki Ohya, Yahoo Japan is in talks with key shareholder Yahoo for a share buyback have ended with no agreement, but what the company left open is the possibility of further negotiation. “We want to positively consider resuming negotiations if the conditions are right,” Ohya told reporters. Yahoo recently...
Bloomberg reports that the micro-blogging giant is planning to add more sales staff in Japan in order to attract more advertisers as local user growth exceeds the company’s global expansion. Twitter will continue to invest and hire in the country and will also ass engineers, company’s CEO Costolo told. Dataminr, a social media analytics company earlier unveiled its...