Month: July 2017

Japan's Line Corp said its number of monthly active users fell from the previous quarter, its first such decline, underscoring the messaging app operator's struggles to grow outside its home country since last year's high-profile IPO. While Line's ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan’s Line Corp said its number of monthly active users fell from the previous quarter, its first such decline, underscoring the messaging app operator’s struggles to grow outside its home country since last year’s high-profile IPO. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Line Corp posted a 39 percent jump in first-half profit, boosted by a transfer of assets. The messaging app operator, which has struggled to grow after a high-profile IPO in 2016, saw operating profit for the six months through ... ( read original story ...)

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times picked up on a story first reported by Bloomberg, that the Japanese technology firm SoftBank ... but because the bad press was pushing an IPO further off into the future. At a minimum, Kalanick’s failure take ... ( read original story ...)

The success of the IPO inspired the term “Netscape moment ... To me, one event stands out as bitcoin’s Netscape moment. That’s when Japan legalized bitcoin. More than 260,000 stores in Japan are rolling out bitcoin as a payment method. ( read original story ...)

This report also states import/export, supply and consumption figures as well as cost, price, revenue and gross margin by regions (United States, EU, China and Japan), and other regions ... management consulting, IPO consulting, industry chain research ... ( read original story ...)

This report studies Electronic Fan in Global market, especially in North America, China, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan and India ... management consulting, IPO consulting, industry chain research, data base and seminar services. The company owned a ... ( read original story ...)

This report studies Diving Oxygen Bomb in Global market, especially in North America, China, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan and India ... management consulting, IPO consulting, industry chain research, data base and seminar services. The company owned ... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - Liquid crystal display panels manufacturer Japan Display Inc (6740.T) is seeking about 100 billion yen ($893 million) from its main creditors to fund an ongoing restructuring, the Nikkei reported on Thursday. The Tokyo-based company, also known ... ( read original story ...)

The Nikkei 225 index hit a near two-year high of 20,318 in June and recently has been hovering above 20,000. But it is still nearly one-half of its 1989 peak of 38,957. One reason behind the poor performance is Japanese companies' low return on equity ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA -- Orders for electronic parts at six leading Japanese suppliers rose roughly 15% on the year in value terms in the April-June period, thanks to brisk demand linked to smartphones, automobiles and popular game consoles. The combined total of 1.36 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 25 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged down on Tuesday in choppy trade as investors braced for the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting which begins later in the day. The Nikkei ended 0.1 percent lower at 19,955.20 ... ( read original story ...)

The Nikkei share average was up 0.5 percent at 20,048.62 at the end of morning trade. Japan's construction equipment makers attracted buying, with Komatsu Ltd surging 2.8 percent and Hitachi Construction Machinery Co soaring 3.4 percent after Caterpillar ... ( read original story ...)

The dollar held firm above ¥111.50 in late Tokyo trading Wednesday, though it cut gains amid a wait-and-see mood ahead of a policy decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.83-84, up from ¥111.19-20 at the same time on ... ( read original story ...)