SoftBank confirms 50-50 JV merger of Yahoo Japan with LINE, recently acquired ZoZo completes Z Holdings trifecta, on deal worth est. $27Bn. Imagine all the ‘useful data’ generated via +100M users of these combined groups! [.Pdf] https://t.co/v9qecZZa6v pic.twitter.com/cy8bCFWhw1
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) November 18, 2019
KDDI and Partners just announced world first; 8K camera mounted on Drone beaming live video via 5G network. So, it seems, we’re off to the races. [Jpn] https://t.co/l9KHE2GBF0 pic.twitter.com/HW1CIPRqJh
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) November 13, 2019
SoftBank Group released Q2 FY2019 earnings, took a hit on WeWork, Son made strong defense with shareholder value increase plus well above industry IRR facts. Essentially stock price and future plan remains on track, see video and materials in English here: https://t.co/cVqArStuGt pic.twitter.com/vgOwSRbQmZ
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) November 7, 2019
Congrats to NFC Forum on the appointment of Mike McCamon as new Executive Director, solid choice considering his history with Bluetooth Special Interest Group and new IoT release candidates in June. https://t.co/XKKe3iXcqa pic.twitter.com/jNI4RJFuwE
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) November 5, 2019
The Innovation Leaders Summit #ILS2019 soon underway at Toranomon Hills; seriously impressive lineup as always with Startup Pitches, Business Matching and Meetups scheduled, details in English Cya there: https://t.co/8PaVLdtWBU おめでとうございます @dg_director がんばりましょう! pic.twitter.com/wuOCUOI4vx
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 28, 2019
As originally introduced at CES in Jan. 2017, Toyota unveiled their next-gen. design announcing the LQ branded model with YUI interface at Tokyo Motor Show this week, see PR message from Dr. Pratt here: https://t.co/w6OrA70Zn6 pic.twitter.com/U9hhzHn8ZP
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 27, 2019
Congrats to the crew at Optimind, winners of the Catapult Grand Prix at recent ICC Summit in Kyoto, on their $10M funding round led by Toyota and KDDI, details here [Jpn] https://t.co/tspfc6UGcL pic.twitter.com/jKztQViWhj
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 24, 2019
Hitachi announced strategic alliance with Disney during recent NEXT2019 show in Vegas. The Lumada platform will collect real-time IoT data and run analytics with digital twins for virtual model solutions to optimize the magical kingdom.. PR in English here https://t.co/FWjCJXb4ll pic.twitter.com/v0hvHL1vf8
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 23, 2019
Watch the Toyota presentation at Tokyo Motor Show today, complete with magic e-broom just in time for Halloween, suggest use closed caption function to auto translate sub titles into English https://t.co/Jh2k09P8xb pic.twitter.com/xBSsdEt7ps
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 23, 2019
Following $4.4Bn in Aug. 2017, “one of the largest single slugs of capital ever in a venture-backed startup”, SoftBank confirms added $8Bn funding deal for WeWork taking up to 80% control of the company. PR Here [Pdf] https://t.co/tqCq9DKTUe pic.twitter.com/CHhJYfmWWr
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 23, 2019