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Japan Tech & Telecom Company News (Page 3)

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

  1. Image Information buys Oita call-centre unit for ¥200mn, but its orders still come through the seller

    Image Information will pay about ¥200mn for an Oita contact centre with 198 seats whose revenue comes entirely from its seller, and will guarantee its debts to that seller; closing is scheduled for 23 October.

  2. eSOL tender offer clears its floor, but BCJ-110's 64.70% stake waits on October 26 settlement

    BCJ-110 drew 12,759,681 eSOL shares against a 10,535,800-share floor, enough for 64.70% of voting rights once payment settles on October 26; delisting steps and timing are yet to be announced.

  3. Peak XV sells 3mn Appier shares off-market, cutting stake to 6.79%

    Peak XV Partners Investments IV cut its Appier Group holding from 9.81% to 6.79% with an off-market sale of 3mn shares on 13 October, and has agreed not to sell more without J.P. Morgan's consent until 1 November.

  4. Koei Tecmo lifts interim operating-profit forecast 64% on back-catalogue strength

    Koei Tecmo raised its six-month operating-profit forecast to ¥11.5bn from ¥7bn on strong back-catalogue sales, while investment returns more than doubled its ordinary-profit guide to ¥25bn.

  5. Ymirlink says intruders pulled about nine million records from five email-service systems

    Ymirlink estimates that about 9 million cumulative records, including email addresses, were extracted from five systems behind its email delivery service, with the count of affected people and any earnings impact still unreported.

  6. TradeWorks says a setup flaw exposed up to 4,611 Iwai Cosmo customers' data

    TradeWorks says it will bear all costs after a misconfigured admin function in the trading system it supplies to Iwai Cosmo Securities may have exposed names and email addresses of 4,611 customers, and it is checking its other financial-institution clients.

  7. TOHO lifts net profit forecast to ¥48bn on share sale, leaves operating outlook untouched

    TOHO lifted its full-year net profit forecast to ¥48bn from ¥41bn after selling investment securities, while keeping revenue at ¥345bn and operating profit at ¥62bn, and left the year-end dividend under review.

  8. SHIFT plans to run ¥15bn Tokyo Gas-backed fund for software deals

    SHIFT's subsidiary is to be sole general partner of a planned ¥15bn software-investment fund with Tokyo Gas, holding all execution authority while SHIFT and the subsidiary together plan to supply 33.3% of the capital.

  9. Serverworks lifts profit guide 27.1%, but yen and partner incentives share the credit

    Serverworks lifted its operating-profit forecast 27.1% to ¥1.665bn and net profit 70.1% to ¥1.538bn, crediting AI-related demand but also a weaker yen, cloud-vendor partner incentives and a lower tax charge.

  10. Photosynth to pay ¥560mn for gym chain it wants as a lab for unmanned stores

    Photosynth plans to buy GOODLIFE and GDS for ¥560mn, all bank-funded, then merge them on 1 December 2026, using their owned stores to test staff-light operation. The hoped-for savings are goals, not results.

  11. Money Forward swings to a nine-month operating profit but keeps a full-year range that spans a loss

    Money Forward's operating profit reached ¥1.69bn for the nine months to August 2026, up from a ¥1.98bn loss, but full-year guidance still runs from a ¥500mn operating loss to a ¥1.5bn profit.

  12. Medley suspends @link healthcare platform after confirmed intrusion

    Medley suspended its @link medical-institution system and patient app on October 14 after confirming unauthorized access; patient data may have leaked from as many as 787 institutions, and no restart date has been given.

  13. GO's 2027 driverless taxi target comes with a permits condition

    GO, Waymo and Nihon Kotsu aim for driverless Tokyo taxis in 2027, scaling to about 100 vehicles only after permits are obtained, while GO's app business lifted quarterly operating profit to ¥3.04bn.

  14. BCPE Neon Cayman takes majority control of Baudroie as buyout settles

    BCPE Neon Cayman passed 50% of Baudroie's voting rights on October 13 when its tender offer settled and it bought shares from three founders, two of whom no longer count as major shareholders.

  15. ABEJA's operating profit rose 59%, but a tax gain flatters net income

    ABEJA's operating profit rose 59.4% to ¥710.6mn in the year to August 2026, but a ¥306mn tax credit helped push net profit up 137.8%; the company guides net profit down 36.2% next year as revenue climbs 30.2%.

  16. Cave swings to operating profit in the quarter it relaunched a 2008 shooter on Steam

    Cave posted a ¥555mn operating profit for June to August, against a ¥565mn loss a year earlier, crediting collaboration campaigns and cost cuts; its new Steam release has no reported sales yet.

  17. VRAIN Solution's inspection AI is adopted by a semiconductor-ceramics maker as half-year sales rise 80%

    VRAIN Solution's AI inspection system has been adopted for a project at a large semiconductor-ceramics maker's domestic site, in a half-year of ¥1.88bn in sales, up 80.0%, and ¥1.31bn of backlog.

  18. FIXER flags going-concern doubt after a ¥2.302bn net loss

    After a ¥2.302bn net loss and a ¥2.239bn operating cash outflow, FIXER says a material uncertainty over its going-concern basis remains, with a ¥1.547bn cost cut under way and financing talks still unsettled.

  19. QPS Holdings lifts operating-profit guide to ¥2bn as ¥1.2bn of research cost moves to next year or later

    QPS Holdings lifted its operating-profit forecast from ¥300mn to ¥2bn with sales unchanged at ¥10bn, saying about ¥1.2bn of research cost will go unbooked this year and satellite depreciation will run below plan.

  20. IPS prices Wakayama cable share sale at ¥3,346, lowering funding ceiling to ¥4.58bn

    IPS, Inc. priced its new-share sale at ¥3,346, setting up to ¥4.58bn in net proceeds for its Wakayama submarine cable project, of which ¥597.4mn depends on Mizuho Securities taking up an allotment.

  21. Media Do lifts profit forecast on subsidiary sale gain, leaving operating guidance untouched

    Media Do raised its net-profit forecast to ¥2.76bn from ¥1.2bn and its year-end dividend to ¥55 on an expected ¥1.56bn gain from selling subsidiaries, while sales and operating-profit guidance did not change.

  22. PR TIMES lifts its dividend floor to 9% of equity and forecasts ¥74.30 a share

    PR TIMES raised its ordinary-dividend floor from 2% to 9% of equity and now forecasts ¥74.30 a share for the year to February 2027, up from ¥16.80, while promising in principle to return at least half of any unused M&A budget.

  23. U-NEXT's energy arm turns record sales into a profit miss

    U-NEXT HOLDINGS grew revenue 20.4% to ¥469.96bn, yet operating profit fell 4.2% as power procurement costs hit fixed-price energy contracts, and management is repricing them and moving customers to market-linked tariffs.

  24. Coconala's agent unit swings to profit as marketplace sales slip

    Coconala's agent segment earned ¥100.4mn after a ¥278.9mn loss, while marketplace sales fell 1.0%; the ¥867mn purchase of 51% of Acrosstudio is signed, with closing planned for October 30.

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