Recently added articles from JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network:
Asia-Pac to Account for 50% of all Mobile TV Subscribers
Jun 09, 2009; ... Hong Kong, June 9, 2009 - (JCN) - According to the Global MobileTV Forecast report, Asia-Pacific region will account for more than50 percent of the global Mobile TV subscribers by the end of 2013due to the rapid technological developments in countries like China,Japan, South Korea and ...
Sharp Eyes China for Mobile Sales Growth
Jun 09, 2009; ... Osaka, June 9, 2009 - (JCN) - Sharp Corp. has set a lofty salestarget for mobile phone handsets in China, as a shriveling domesticmarket has forced it to look abroad for a new center of growth. The maker of Aquos-branded television sets aims to sell about 2million handsets in the ...
SONY to Cut Parts Suppliers
Jun 09, 2009; ... Hong Kong, June 9, 2009 - (JCN) - Sony Corp said it would cut thenumber of parts suppliers by 50 percent to slash costs under aturnaround plan that was testing the mettle of chief executiveHoward Stringer. The Japanese electronics and entertainment company planned to ...
Toshiba Raises $3 Bil in Global Stock Offering
Jun 09, 2009; ... Tokyo, June 9, 2009 - (JCN) - Toshiba Corp., needing funds forinvestment after a record annual loss, raised 289.7 billion yen(US$3.04 billion) in Japan's biggest stock offering by a non-financial company in eight years. The stock, offered at 3.2 percent less than its closing ...
Renesas Back in the Black in FY2010
Jun 09, 2009; ... Tokyo, June 9, 2009 - (JCN) - Renesas Technology Corp. aims to beback in the black by fiscal 2010 on aggressive cost-cutting effortsas it pins its hopes on nascent signs of recovery in chip demand. Renesas, owned 55 percent by Hitachi Ltd. and 45 percent byMitsubishi Electric ...
VIDEO: Honda Introduces New 'Insight' Hybrid Hatchback
Feb 06, 2009; ... Tokyo, Feb 6, 2009 - (Diginfo) - Honda has released the all new"Insight" 5-door hybrid vehicle that features a lightweight, compacthybrid system in a compact, 5-passenger hatchback style body. Honda designed the all new Insight with four specific designconcepts. First of all, ...
Eurus Energy Completes its Largest Windfarm in Texas
Jan 24, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 24, 2009 - (JCN) - Eurus Energy Group has completedthe Bull Creek Wind Farm in Borden County, Texas at an investment ofUS$ 330 million and commissioned the project to work on December 24,2008, as scheduled. At a total output is 180MW (1MW x 180 Mitsubishi wind ...
Fujifilm Acquires Russian Medical and Imaging Distributor
Jan 24, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 24, 2009 - (JCN) - Fujifilm Corporation has acquired,through its European local corporation, Fujifilm Europe GmbH, allshares in Fujifilm-RU, or Fujifilm Russia, a Russian independentdistributor of its medical and imaging products, from MarubeniCorporation. By ...
NTT Communications Intros SaaS Webmail and Groupware Services
Jan 21, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 21, 2009 - (JCN) - NTT Communications (NTT Com)announced plans for a January 21 launch of webmail and groupwareservices on its secure software as a service (SaaS) platform underBizCITY, a suite of enterprise services on a comprehensive ICTplatform that customers can access ...
Casio Establishes Subsidiary to Expand Sales in Brazil
Jan 21, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 21, 2009 - (JCN) - Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announcedestablishment of Casio Brasil Comercio De Produtos EletronicosLtda., a new sales subsidiary in Sao Paulo tasked with increasingsales in Brazil, the largest market in Latin America. Casio Brasilbegan operations on January 5, ...
Yokogawa to Supply Control and Instrumentation at Australia's Largest Gas-fired Power Station
Jan 21, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 21, 2009 - (JCN) - Yokogawa Australia has won thecontract to replace the control and instrumentation systems atSection B of the Torrens Island Power Station, which is owned by AGLEnergy Limited (AGL). The contract is estimated to be worth A$28million. The Torrens ...
Mitsubishi Corp Enters Kitimat LNG Terminal Project
Jan 15, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 15, 2009 - (JCN) - Mitsubishi Corporation announcedthat it acquired terminal capacity and an equity stake in KitimatLNG's proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal inCanada. Mitsubishi will purchase 1.5 million tons per annum (mtpa) ofterminal capacity and ...
Sumitomo Corp, Chisso and Cambrios Technologies in TFT-LCD Materials Alliance
Jan 15, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 15, 2009 - (JCN) - Sumitomo Corporation, ChissoCorporation and Sunnyvale-based Cambrios Technologies Corporationagreed the companies will jointly promote and commercialize "wet-coatable" transparent conductive ink as a replacement for ITO(Indium Tin Oxide) in the field of ...
Taisho in Development and Sale of Anti-obesity Drug orlistat in Japan
Jan 14, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 14, 2009 - (JCN) - Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.announced an agreement with Glaxo Group Limited, a subsidiary ofGlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc to develop and market anti-obesity drugorlistat in Japan. Orlistat, an anti-obesity drug developed by Roche, is designed ...
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Opens New TraPac Container Terminal in Jacksonville
Jan 14, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 14, 2009 - (JCN) - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. openedits own terminal in the U.S. port of Jacksonville, Florida. MOL'sfirst ship, serving the ESX-China/North America East Coast route,berthed in the afternoon of January 12th for cargo operations at thenew facility. MOL ...
Sumitomo Corp to Expand Indonesian Coal Fired Power Plant Ops
Jan 09, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 9, 2009 - (JCN) - Sumitomo Corporation announced plansexpand capacity at the Tanjung Jati B Unit 1&2 Coal Fired PowerPlant, which is invested through Sumitomo's 100% subsidiary inIndonesia, PT. Central Java Power. Tanjung Jati B Unit 3&4 Coal Fired Power Plant will be ...
NYK Line, Nippon Oil Project Uses Solar Power for Ship Propulsion
Jan 09, 2009; ... Kobe, Jan 9, 2009 - (JCN) - A solar-power-assisted cargo vessel,installed with a system developed by Nippon Yusen, known as NYKLine, and Nippon Oil Corporation, has set sail from Japan in whatappears to be the world's first ocean-going transition to solarelectric power.The ...
Weathernews Launches Global Sea Ice Information Website
Jan 09, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 9, 2009 - (JCN) - Weathernews has launched a websitewhich provides global unified sea ice information. The 'Global IceCenter' is available at http://weathernews.com/GIC/. The Global Ice Center has been collecting and monitoring globalsea ice data, including ice ...
ITOCHU Afilliate Tyr Energy Acquires Half-stake in US-based Fox Energy
Jan 08, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 8, 2009 - (JCN) - ITOCHU and ITOCHU International Inc.affiliate Tyr Energy, Inc., has acquired half of the Fox EnergyCenter, a 593-megawatt power plant in Wisconsin, from GE EnergyFinancial Services, a unit of GE. According to a January 5 announcement, Tyr is purchasing ...
Daiichi Sankyo Files Application for Dysuria Treatment KMD-3213 in China
Jan 08, 2009; ... Tokyo, Jan 8, 2009 - (JCN) - Daiichi Sankyo announced today thatsubsidiary Daiichi Pharmaceutical (Beijing) Co., Ltd. filed anapplication for KMD-3213 (generic name: silodosin) to China's StateFood and Drug Administration (SFDA). KMD-3213 is a selective alpha 1A-adrenoceptor ...