Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.
MINKABU THE INFONOID has agreed to sell Livedoor to an SBI Holdings subsidiary for ¥7.5bn and plans to repay its ¥7.02bn of short-term borrowings from the proceeds, subject to a December 11 shareholder vote.
Cybertrust Japan halted SSL/TLS server certificate issuance on September 15 and decided on November 2 to restart under a new scheme, warning that the effect on results could appear in the short term.
GPU infrastructure sales of ¥10.12bn, up 258.9%, helped Sakura Internet swing to a ¥2.96bn half-year operating profit, while a planned ¥26bn Ishikari GPU investment is to be funded by subsidies, borrowing and own funds.
CHANGE Holdings now guides attributable profit from a ¥2.2bn loss to a ¥1.6bn gain for the year to March 2027, after a ¥5.97bn EG goodwill writedown and the Furusato Choice shutdown, and has left the year-end dividend undetermined.
COVER's hololive Dreams launch pushed second-quarter sales up 0.3% and operating profit up 74.0%, yet half-year sales fell 3.6% and the company left its full-year forecast unchanged.
More than 550 accounting firms had decided to adopt freee's paid AI agents about two months after launch, but the company gives no revenue figure for them or for its new same-day invoice financing.
Ymirlink says 47,864,147 delivery-target records leaked from 49 Cuenote FC systems, below its earlier maximum estimate of about 51.62mn, with the final forensic report pending and the earnings impact still under assessment.
SoftBank Group booked a ¥597.2bn loss on changes to its US data-center power-equipment procurement plan within a ¥768.0bn half-year net loss, while consolidated interest-bearing debt rose ¥7.91tn to ¥32.59tn and the equity ratio fell to 23.6%.
SoftBank Corp.'s enterprise cloud and AI revenue rose 36.7% to ¥163.8bn and finance segment profit rose 73.9%, yet group operating profit grew just 2.1% to ¥642.1bn after a prior-year acquisition gain fell away.
Papyless estimates the Renta e-book store suspension will cut sales by about ¥2.4bn and operating and ordinary profit by about ¥500mn each, and plans a phased restart without giving a date.
NTT priced 32.559mn NEC shares at ¥4,308.8 for overseas institutions and will tender a same-sized block at NEC's ¥3,462 buyback price, booking a gain of about ¥189bn in standalone accounts only.
Mercari's amended annual reports restate its statutory measure as women's average wage as a percentage of men's, lifting the latest all-worker figure from 29.26% to 69.13% and revising three earlier years the same way.
Payment volume rose 42.0% to ¥5.8tn on a KDDI group project, yet the platform segment's pretax profit fell 13.9% and investment markdowns pushed Digital Garage to a ¥4.09bn pretax loss.
NTT plans to sell its entire 4.90% NEC holding, tendering 32.6mn shares into NEC's ¥3,462 self-tender and placing the same number with mostly overseas investors, while both companies say their business alliance continues.
Trust Bank said app donations would restart at 15:00 on November 9, which would put web and app both back in service, while Choice Pay stays suspended with no date after a breach of 4,454,097 member records.
ENECHANGE will sell the loss-making part of its household switching business to Port for ¥200mn on December 1, keeping the stock revenue, after completing the ¥575.6mn Darwin purchase that left ¥559.7mn of goodwill.
TradeWorks now expects operating profit of ¥300mn, down from ¥480mn, as breach-related security spending, delayed project acceptance, AI costs and subsidiary shortfalls outweigh a higher ¥5.85bn sales forecast.
KDDI's adjusted operating profit rose 13.9% to ¥633.1bn in the half to September, but ¥68.3bn of impairments, including the menu closure, held reported operating profit growth to 0.8%, while a Kakaku.com remeasurement gain sits below the operating line.
SoftBank Group says it confirmed on 4 November that China's foreign investment security review office had notified it of a prohibition on acquiring ABB's Chinese robotics business; it says it is still working with ABB.
Digital Hearts Holdings will put a share consolidation to shareholders on Nov 20 after Sandbox's tender offer succeeded, with delisting planned for Dec 11 and a ¥1.16bn debugging-business purchase already closed.
Trustbank will take Furusato Choice web donations again from noon on November 6, but the app and Choice Pay remain suspended, five donors had additional data exposed, and the earnings effect on CHANGE Holdings is still under review.
NTT's first-half operating profit fell 12.2% to ¥830.1bn on record revenue, but it raised its annual operating profit forecast to ¥1.73tn and lifted capex by ¥43bn to improve mobile network quality.
Paycloud Holdings says up to about 380 client companies of its Arara mail service lost email addresses and member data, about 77 million addresses on a provisional count, and the service is suspended with no restart date.
Accenture's Japanese unit offers ¥8,500 a share for Global Security Experts, but holders of 59.83% will not tender and will sell to the company after a squeeze-out at ¥5,835 and ¥6,918.