Impressive collection of partners announce Virtual Shibuya 5G Entertainment Project, as new company, with kick-off event on May 19th featuring plenty of VR-DJ and Ghost in the Shell themed contents freely available to registered attendees. PR details [Jpn] https://t.co/Kt4DqIyEgw pic.twitter.com/SZOEGUudOI
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) May 15, 2020
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DoCoMo, KDDI and SoftBank together with 7-major financial partners announced AirPost today, using RCS platform run by Toppan Forms – targeting secure data transaction services, with launch date set for June. See overview details here [Jpn] https://t.co/62a6bohkdP pic.twitter.com/nz3AsMYcZG
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) May 11, 2020
Lead organizer of @Tokyo_Game_Show just announced their 30th anniversary event, scheduled from 09.24, will be restricted to online participation only. It will be interesting to see how they manage alternate expo, expect further details by end of May [.PDF] https://t.co/DAvD8hjkfQ pic.twitter.com/MqUkp8u1u7
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) May 8, 2020
Congrats to MAKOTO team on news they have secured $6.5M for Stage-Up Fund, five LPs including KDDI Regional Initiatives, to build on their amazing startup support program efforts in Tohoku since 2011 with other areas in Japan [Jpn] https://t.co/8Pa83kybCt pic.twitter.com/VDWYdivBYI
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 30, 2020
See Upgrade Reality @NttResearch inspired by pioneers from Jenner on vaccines to Wright Brothers and birth of the Internet, closes on biological digital twin. Their R&D labs focus in Quantum, neuro-science, photonics, cryptographic and medical informatics. https://t.co/yLnyZpDkpf pic.twitter.com/UEbhshLuJa
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 29, 2020
SBI Holdings and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group just announced strategic capital and business alliance, noted SMBC will acquire 20% of Neomobile Securities, and establish LP fund targeting startups in 5G, AI, FinTech and Society5 segments [Jpn] https://t.co/xsrecURrfn pic.twitter.com/j3IgQsfc9p
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 28, 2020
Fujitsu confirms deal with JAXA for FX1000 Supercomputer, running 19.4 petaflops or +5x current JSS2 system, as one of the fastest machines in the world. See future operations plan, including AI processing R&D, with related overview details in English here https://t.co/04YQzxdd7J pic.twitter.com/p8BcBr9JO5
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 24, 2020
See @ITU released Earth Day 2020 report call to utilize full range of ‘Frontier Tech’ from 5G and AI to IoT and Robotics (etc) to address Climate Change, following UN designated SDGs, essentially Society5 – PR here: https://t.co/NPMyQSUDcC pic.twitter.com/UNFupaTX70
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 23, 2020
KDDI adds B2B SaaS segment under their Open Innovation Fund with investment just announced for the RPA cobit platform provided by BizteX – congrats @Mitsu_Shimada and his team – details here [Jpn] https://t.co/U6sejE2hgB pic.twitter.com/lS5A6gFHXk
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 20, 2020
The Super Drone Championship indoor race, organized by DoCoMo and partners, was held at Makuhari Messe on March 31st with expected crowds forced to watch event online. See overview details with final results via dedicated site here [Jpn] https://t.co/AI8LXDcjmk pic.twitter.com/MLUSgXSMWK
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 13, 2020