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Considering buying Angry Birds maker Rovio, says Japan's Sega SammyThe Wall Street Journal reported last week that Sega Sammy was nearing a deal to buy the Finnish firm for about $1 billion. Rovio has said ...
17 Apr, 2023, 09.33 AM IST
Vital TSMC supplier warns of chip material price hikes into 2023Tokyo-based Showa Denko, which supplies essential chip fabrication materials to the likes of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Inf...
05 Jul, 2022, 09.36 AM IST
SoftBank's $40 bn sale of chip group Arm to Nvidia collapsesThe move comes after US authorities filed a lawsuit seeking to block the sale and probes were launched into the mega-deal in the United Kin...
08 Feb, 2022, 03.24 PM IST
Panasonic sells Tesla stake for $3.6 billion, may use cash for strategic investmentsPanasonic's battery business is dominated by Elon Musk's Tesla, but the two firms have had a tense relationship at times with executives tr...
25 Jun, 2021, 10.55 AM IST
'Son-chan' invites veteran stock picker Keiko Erikawa to SoftBank boardThe board changes come after SoftBank lost two of Japan's most vocal corporate leaders in recent years, Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing founde...
22 May, 2021, 01.14 PM IST
Japanese games giant Nintendo teams up with Pokemon Go creator for augmented reality smartphone gamesPokemon Go has been hugely successful since its 2016 launch.
23 Mar, 2021, 10.51 AM IST
Forget retirement, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son aims to be biggest tech investorSon made billions in returns from investments in Alibaba and Yahoo, and the new fund will likely pursue a similar strategy of backing techn...
15 Oct, 2016, 11.28 AM IST
SoftBank's Son makes biggest bet in long career backing techThe company's $32 billion bid for ARM Holdings Plc is predicated on the notion that succeeding generations will come to depend on smart app...
19 Jul, 2016, 02.22 PM IST
SoftBank may face inquiry over alleged Nikesh Arora conflictsThe Securities and Exchange Commission office in Los Angeles is looking into whether Arora had conflicts of interest or engaged in question...
01 Jul, 2016, 07.08 AM IST
Toshiba to book record loss, cut 5% of workforce this yearToshiba Corp said on Monday it would book a record net loss this year and cut around 5 percent of its workforce as the sprawling conglomera...
21 Dec, 2015, 06.19 PM IST
Nikesh Arora, Google's Chief Business Officer, quits; to join Japan's SoftBankOmid Kordestani, who has led sales teams at Google for years, will take over in the interim, marking the latest change to Google's senior l...
19 Jul, 2014, 04.33 AM IST