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Softbank profit doubles as mobile business expands
Boston Globe, The | 25 days 23 hours 53 minutes ago
TOKYOSoftbank Corp., which runs the only Japanese mobile operator to offer the iPhone, said profit doubled in the latest quarter as its cellular business continued to expand.

KDDI Posts 25% Net Profit Drop
Wall Street Journal, The | 31 days 23 hours 53 minutes ago
TOKYO — KDDI Corp. said its net profit for the fiscal second quarter dropped 25% year-to-year, as sales promotion costs mounted amid weak demand.

BUSINESS OCTOBER 23, 2009, 5:00 A.M. ET KDDI Posts 25% Net Profit Drop
Barron's (subscription required) | 31 days 23 hours 39 minutes ago
TOKYO — KDDI Corp. said its net profit for the fiscal second quarter dropped 25% year-to-year, as sales promotion costs mounted amid weak demand.

Softbank July-Sep net profit doubles
Total Telecom Magazine (U.K.) | 25 days 23 hours 49 minutes ago
Japanese operator's results boosted by strong mobile business.

Softbank's new lineup heavy on fast Wi-Fi
Japan Times, The | 13 days 8 hours 45 minutes ago
Softbank Corp. unveiled 22 new mobile phone models for its winter-spring lineup Tuesday with a special focus on Wi-Fi and a new service that uses the wireless system to access the Internet. "Today's biggest keyword is Wi-Fi. This one word," Masayoshi Son, Softbank CEO, said during a presentation in Tokyo of the new products. Eight of the 22 new phone models have built-in Wi-Fi, which enables handsets to connect to the Internet about 7.5 times faster than the 3G cellular connection, ac...

Softbank eyes stakes in India, China companies
Total Telecom Magazine (U.K.) | 4 days 23 hours 47 minutes ago
Japanese operator keen on mobile application, technology firms.

Softbank eyes Asia for fresh content
Japan Times, The | 4 days 9 hours 16 minutes ago
Softbank Corp., Japan's third-largest mobile phone operator, is mulling possible investments in software or mobile phone content companies in India and Southeast Asia, Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son said Thursday. "We just partner we invest 20 percent, 30 percent," Son said at a briefing at the Mobile Asia Congress industry conference in Hong Kong. "We'd like to bring social games and others into Japan" from China. The company owns stakes in the parent of China's Aliba...

Foxconn Group To Participate In Joint Innovation Lab JV
Wall Street Journal, The | 15 hours 43 minutes ago
TAIPEI (Dow Jones)--Taiwan's Foxconn Group, the world's largest contract electronics maker by revenue, will join an initiative called the Joint Innovation Lab to develop products for its handset customers, Foxconn's flagship Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317.TW) said Monday.

Softbank profit doubles as its mobile business expands
Japan Times, The | 25 days 9 hours 5 minutes ago
Softbank Corp., which runs the only Japanese mobile operator to offer the iPhone, said profit doubled in the latest quarter as its cellular business continued to expand. Net profit was 43.37 billion during the July-September period, up from 21.75 billion a year earlier, the company said Thursday. Revenue was nearly unchanged at 682.9 billion versus 681.7 billion. Softbank said profit increased even as sales held steady because of falling costs as its mobile operations became a...

UPDATE 1-Japan regulator to brief on BNP Paribas probe
Forbes | 38 days 23 hours 31 minutes ago
TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Japan's securities regulator said it would hold a briefing at 6 p.m. (0900 GMT) on the result of its investigation of BNP Paribas and any recommendation for disciplinary action.

UPDATE 2-Japan watchdog: BNP Paribas manipulated stock trade
Forbes | 38 days 21 hours 50 minutes ago
TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Japan's securities watchdog said it recommended disciplinary action against BNP Paribas for stock trade manipulation and for failing to report fully to financial regulators about a convertible bond trade.

Japan regulator investigates BNP Paribas - newspaper
Forbes | 40 days 2 hours 54 minutes ago
TOKYO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Japan's securities regulator is probing allegations of market manipulation in share trading by BNP Paribas, the Asahi newspaper reported, in what would be another regulatory issue for the French bank following a controversial deal last year with a failed property developer.

Japan watchdog: BNP Paribas manipulated stock trade
Forbes | 38 days 22 hours 41 minutes ago
* Recommends punishment for stock trade manipulation * Says gave inadequate report on Urban to FSAArticle Controlsemail

UPDATE 1-Japan watchdog to halt some BNP Paribas ops -Nikkei
Forbes | 32 days 1 hour 28 minutes ago
TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Japan's financial regulator will order a brokerage unit of French bank BNP Paribas on Friday to suspend its stock derivative operations for two weeks, the Nikkei business daily said.

UPDATE 3-Japan watchdog: BNP Paribas manipulated stock trade
Forbes | 38 days 20 hours 30 minutes ago
By Junko Fujita and Mayumi Negishi TOKYO, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Japan's securities watchdog had recommended a local unit of BNP Paribas ( BNPQY.PK - news - people ) be punished for manipulating stock prices and submitting a report with some untruthful elements about a controversial financing deal.