Japan

DigiTimes | July 12, 2011 | Josephine Lien, Jessie Shen Japan-based DRAM maker Elpida Memory has approved plans to raise up to JPY79.67 billion (US$994 million), including a rights issue and convertible bonds (CBs). The funds raised will go towards …

Kyiv Post | July 7, 2011 TOKYO (AP) — Nokia Corp., battered by the popularity of smartphones, is abandoning the Japanese market, after a brief foray with luxury cell phones costing as much as 20 million yen ($250,000). …. Read …

Canon Global | July 11, 2011 | Press Release TOKYO, July 11, 2011—Canon Inc. (“Canon”; President and COO: Tsuneji Uchida; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with MEDIAN Technologies S.A. (“MEDIAN Technologies”; Chairman …

Taiwan is poised to overtake Japan in 2011 as the world’s largest semiconductor materials market, according to data from SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International). SEMI, a global trade organization, also said Taiwan’s market grew from $6.87 billion in 2009 to approximatelyS$9.11 billion in 2010, …

Poor PC vendors. If a new report by analyst firm IDC is to be believed, the world and his wife are conspiring to reduce PC shipment growth for the rest of 2011. At the beginning of the year IDC predicted …

Here at RCR Wireless we often find ourselves listening in on some especially interesting rumors and saucy speculation. While we can’t absolutely vouch for their accuracy, some are still interesting enough to explore in terms of possibility, and the following …

As far as tarnished reputations go, Sony is currently in rare air. The initial hacking furore of mid-April, which resulting in the company’s PSN gaming network and Qriocity media service being shut down for three weeks, is far from over.

DoCoMo | May 13, 2011 | Press Release TOKYO, JAPAN, May 13, 2011 — NTT DOCOMO, INC. today announced that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, Inc. under which DOCOMO will leverage its mobile expertise, with support from Twitter, to develop innovative …

Bloomberg | April 28, 2011 | Mariko Yasu Panasonic Corp. (6752), the world’s largest maker of plasma televisions, plans to eliminate almost 17,000 jobs over two years as part of an overhaul to restore profitability to levels before the global financial …

Mobile broadband is critical in a time of disaster according to Norwegian browser maker Opera which claims Japanese usage of its software skyrocketed in the days following the earthquake. Last month Japan was hit by one of the largest earthquakes …

Mobile broadband is critical in a time of disaster according to Norwegian browser maker Opera which claims Japanese usage of its software skyrocketed in the days following the earthquake. Last month Japan was hit by one of the largest earthquakes …

Reuters | April 18, 2011 | Joseph Radford (Reuters) – Troubled Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.T) said on Monday it is mulling the sale of stock holdings and real estate, but said it has not decided whether to offload its shares …

Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 | Yoree Koh This much is clear: Masayoshi Son has been an angry man these past few days. While Japan’s richest man has recently used Twitter to share news of his philanthropic activities in the …

Yonhap News Agency | April 11, 2011 | Lee Youkyung SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) — Kakao Corp., the developer of the fastest growing mobile messenger service in South Korea, said Monday that it plans to set up subsidiaries in the …

AUSTIN, Texas-Due to irreparable damages incurred from the recent 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11, officials from Freescale Semiconductor confirmed the closing of its wafer fabrication plant in Sendai, Japan. After a lengthy assessment of equipment and infrastructure damage and …

Bloomberg | April 3, 2011 | Pavel Alpeyev Softbank Corp. (9984) President Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man, pledged to donate 10 billion yen ($120 million) and his remaining salary until retirement to help support victims of the nation’s biggest postwar disaster. …

The Nation | April 4, 2011 |  Usanee Mongkolporn Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo is interested in testing 4G wireless broadband technology in Thailand, said Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, chairman of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). He added that the company had …

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has announced his firm will be releasing a tablet by the end of this summer.

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. released some stats about its network’s restoration following the massive earthquake which hit the country last month.