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Japan Tech & Telecom Company News (Page 10)

Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.

  1. Demae-can Nearly Doubles Its Loss Forecast as Delivery Orders Slip

    Demae-can now expects a ¥7.9bn operating loss for the year to August 2026, almost double its October guidance, after order volumes and gross merchandise value fell short through the third quarter.

  2. WIZE's Solana Stash Passes ¥1.0bn as Average Cost Keeps Falling

    WIZE has built a Solana stash worth more than ¥1.0bn at an average cost of ¥15,053 per token, and because it marks the holding to market every quarter, price swings will flow straight into reported profit, an effect the company says it has not yet quantified.

  3. Tose Absorbs an Unpaid Contract Freeze, While Confirming Switch 2 Work

    An overseas client froze a major console project at Tose with no restart date and no payout for the idle staff, prompting the outsourcer to consider penalty clauses in future contracts. Tose also confirms several of its 2026 titles are built for Nintendo's Switch 2.

  4. CyberStep Unwinds Its ¥1.25bn AI Acquisition, Recovers Every Yen

    CyberStep Holdings is returning the AI subsidiary it fully absorbed in January after deciding the ¥1.25bn deal's original business assumptions no longer hold, and the seller is sending back every yen.

  5. WingArc1st Calls Its Own Stock Price 'Extremely Insufficient', Backs the Claim With a ¥3.0bn Buyback

    WingArc1st's board told shareholders its stock trades at an "extremely insufficient" level and authorized buying back up to 3.45% of shares outstanding, capped at ¥3.0bn, through May 2027.

  6. SMS Gateway Breach at Fabrica's Media 4u Exposes 95,412 Account Records

    A three-week gap between detection and disclosure left the SMS gateway of Fabrica Holdings' subsidiary Media 4u compromised, with hackers stealing management-console data on 95,412 accounts and sending 280 unauthorized text messages before the company went public with the breach.

  7. Toshin Holdings Enters Court-Supervised Restructuring After Accounting Fraud

    A dual-bookkeeping scheme at mobile-shop operator Toshin Holdings' handset subsidiary broke loan covenants, drew a Tokyo Stock Exchange delisting warning and ended with a court appointing trustees to run the company under corporate reorganization.

  8. RAKUS pays ¥23.1bn for Oasis's stake in HR software maker Plus Alpha Consulting

    A ¥23.1bn share purchase from activist investor Oasis Management lifts RAKUS's stake in HR-software maker Plus Alpha Consulting to 22.21%, but a signed memorandum locks the buyer into a standstill, one board seat and a right of first refusal for the target.

  9. QPS Holdings Bets a ¥69.7bn Defense Deal Can Erase Its Satellite Losses

    QPS Holdings booked an ¥833mn operating loss for the year to May 2026, kept net income positive with subsidy income, and is guiding to a ¥300mn operating profit next year once a ¥69.7bn, five-year Ministry of Defense satellite contract lands its first full year of revenue.

  10. Money Forward Swings to First-Half Profit and Raises Full-Year Guidance

    The Tokyo-listed accounting-software group turned a ¥2.2bn net loss into a ¥553.7mn profit for the six months to May, then used the report to lift its full-year revenue and profit targets for a second time.

  11. Tier IV Prices Global Share Offering at ¥1,085 to Fund Self-Driving Chips

    Japan's loss-making autonomous-driving software developer fixed its offer price and lined up Morgan Stanley and SMBC to sell shares abroad, funneling the proceeds into custom AI chips and mass-production supply chains.

  12. Celsys Raises Interim Profit Forecast After CLIP STUDIO PAINT Upgrade

    Celsys now expects half-year operating profit of ¥2.22bn, up 38.9% from its February forecast, after CLIP STUDIO PAINT's version 5.0 upgrade beat sales targets worldwide, though its full-year outlook stays unchanged.

  13. GO Inc. Banks ¥6.99bn From Nomura to Fund Its Waymo Autonomous-Taxi Project

    Nomura Securities took up 87% of a planned share allotment, handing GO Inc. about ¥6.99bn to fund its autonomous-taxi project with Waymo and Nihon Kotsu, with any leftover cash reserved for taxi and logistics acquisitions rather than marketing spend until 2029.

  14. Weathernews's AI Cuts 15,300 Work Hours a Month, But Its 99% Payout Won't Repeat

    Weathernews trimmed 15,300 hours of monthly labor with AI and grew operating profit 16% in the year to May 2026, but a one-off commemorative dividend that pushed its payout ratio to 99.1% is set to unwind, with the company's own forecast putting next year's ratio at 58.3%.

  15. Japan Process Buys Back 9.28% of Its Stock in a Single ToSTNeT-3 Trade

    Japan Process turned a board resolution into a done deal within a day, buying back 883,000 shares (98% of a 9.28%-of-stock authorization) for ¥1.59bn through a single ToSTNeT-3 off-auction trade on July 8.

  16. TIER IV Prices Global Share Sale at ¥862.75, Books ¥8.7bn for Self-Driving AI and Chips

    TIER IV set ¥862.75 as the price for its overseas share offering, unlocking part of an ¥8.7bn budget for autonomous-driving AI and custom semiconductors through the year to September 2028.

  17. Nomura's Kakaku.com Stake Slips Below 5% as ¥3,000 Buyout Clock Runs to July 16

    Nomura's securities and asset-management units cut their combined Kakaku.com holding to 4.29%, clearing Japan's 5% disclosure line, the same day filings detailed how Digital Garage and KDDI plan to sit out a ¥3,000-a-share take-private tender offer and cash out afterward instead.

  18. Hikari Tsushin Group Pushes Past 10% Stake in Fukui Computer Holdings

    Four affiliated holders led by Hikari Tsushin lifted their combined voting rights in the construction-software maker to 10.01%, crossing the line that makes a shareholder legally "major" under Japan's securities law.

  19. TV Asahi shareholders push journalism clause, female director quota and ad-program safeguards

    The move: alongside a ¥40-a-share year-end dividend, TV Asahi shareholders used the AGM to press charter changes on impartial journalism, online content correction, one-third female representation among full-time directors and protections against ad-program confusion.

  20. TBS buys 8.03% of U-NEXT as Uno bloc slips to 50.59%

    A roughly ¥20bn off-market block trade tied to a capital and business alliance gives TBS an 8.03% stake in U-NEXT, while Yasuhide Uno and UNO-HOLDINGS remain just above the majority line at 50.59%.

  21. Speee to spin off repair-tech unit into SOMPO-backed joint venture

    Speee will move its Reform DX business into new subsidiary ReFact on August 1, then sell SOMPO Holdings 39.3 per cent in September, turning a repair-referral partnership into an insurer-backed venture it still controls.

  22. QPS raises profit forecast on early JAXA subsidy booking, even as sales slip

    The catch: QPS now expects revenue of ¥3.8bn, 5% below its April forecast, but earlier recognition of ¥144mn in JAXA subsidy income and a ¥100mn deferred-tax asset lift ordinary profit and net income guidance to ¥1.1bn.

  23. Obic buyback goes quiet in June, cumulative spend stays at ¥10.0bn

    Obic bought no shares in June under its ¥50.0bn repurchase plan, leaving the cumulative tally at 2,395,900 shares and ¥10.0bn with the programme still open through March 2027.

  24. unerry appoints Nagisa Kuraoka CFO as it shifts to group management

    The July 1 reshuffle makes Nagisa Kuraoka CFO and adds Satoshi Ichieda and Masato Sakata as executive officers, with unerry saying it needs faster decisions for group management and subsidiary PMI.