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DoCoMo to sell as much as US$9b of shares
News NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's biggest company by market value, plans to sell as much as US$9 billion of new shares in the first quarter of next year to fund overseas expansion, bankers involved in the transaction said.
KDDI receives offers for Tu-Ka mobile ops
News KDDI Corp, seeking ways to pare its US$16 billion debt, said several companies have expressed interest in buying its Tu-Ka wireless operations.
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DoCoMo's H2 profit doubles
News NTT DoCoMo Inc's profit doubled in the second half, beating its own estimates after it added 3.4 million cell-phone users who spent more on Web services.
Panasonic to acquire Sanyo Electric
News Electronics giant Panasonic, aiming to get an edge in the rechargeable-batteries business and solar-battery market, reaches agreement to buy Sanyo Electric.
Tags: Acquisitions, Business structures, Battery, Sanyo Electric Co., Photovoltaics, electric vehicle, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Panasonic, lithium-ion, financial
Sega shares extend gains on optimism about recovery
News Sega Corp rose as much as 4.9 percent, bucking a broad-based decline in technology stocks, as investors bet the money-losing company is set to recover.
Oracle Japan raises US$7.5 billion in offering
News Oracle Japan and its U.S. parent, the world's largest database-software maker, raised US$7.5 billion in Japan's second-biggest public offering, bankers involved in the sale said.
Securities Commission reviews MEASAT dual listing proposal
News The Securities Commission confirmed today it has received the proposal from MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd (MBNS) to go on a dual listing in MESDAQ and NASDAQ and is currently reviewing it.
Hikari Tsushin gets first exposure to online trading in Japan
News Hikari Tsushin Inc, Japan's No 2 Internet investor, is gaining its first exposure to the country's online trading market through a 23 percent-held unit that will sell foreign stocks through smaller securities firms.
CEO, top execs of Japanese portal face prosecution
News Livedoor is verging on collapse after its founder and others are arrested on charges of securities fraud.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Legal
Dual listing to create interest in MESDAQ
News Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation Bhd (MESDAQ) believes an early decision on the "dual listing" of individual companies on separate exchanges would boost interest and attract more business in its direction.
Oracle Japan shares surge 12% on public offer report
News Oracle Corp Japan shares surged 12 percent following a report that the affiliate of the world's largest database-software maker, Oracle Corp, will list its shares on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in late April.
Japanese VC investing soars, but still lags US
News Ikuo Nishioka has always been a man with a mission. Nishioka, who retired as Intel Japan chairman last year after serving as its CEO since 1992, was known as the "e-mail messiah" because he proselytized about the benefits of electronic communication.
KDDI, Unicom parent ink wireless technology pact
News China United Telecommunications Ltd, China's second-largest mobile company, and KDDI Corp, its counterpart in Japan, signed an agreement last night in Beijing on cellular and wireless Internet technology, KDDI said in a release through Tokyo Stock Exchange.
DoCoMo share sale to proceed as planned, size unchanged
News NTT DoCoMo said the sale of new shares announced Friday will go ahead as planned, denying speculation, which sent the shares soaring, that Japan's No 1 cell-phone company will scale back the offering.
Chinese Opera belts out brand
News Norway's Opera Software sets its sights on the Asian cell phone market with two Opera-branded handsets--departing the backstage role browser providers typically play with cell phones.
Tags: Mobile platforms
