Nokia Networks has announced MOU to buy part of Panasonic’s base station business with deal to close by year-end: http://bit.ly/1DHj5L8

LINE just released their 2Q results, April-June, at 21.2Bn JPY ($220M) with impressive gains both YoY from Q1: http://bit.ly/1rs1Loj

DoCoMo Q1 results presentation, posting YoY declines, some interesting details.. English video runs 60mins: http://bit.ly/1BkMhDU

Japan mobile content and commerce market report by MCF FYE 2013 shows strong YoY growth to $30Bn in sales! http://bit.ly/1rUNQG2

DoCoMo Innovation Village announces their Third Phase of Startup Teams, Sony joins as supporting partner http://bit.ly/1rLJBNK

As quoted via AFP, Abe-san wants to gather the robots of the world to compete at the Tokyo Olympics http://bit.ly/1nv48F7