Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.
Gakken Holdings confirmed it has started a bidding process aimed at selling its shares in a group company under its portfolio restructuring review, but says no decision has been made and discloses no buyer or price.
A Cayman vehicle whose representative chairs a Bain Capital entity began settling its Baudroie tender offer on October 13, funded by ¥37bn of bank loans pledged against the shares, with an 87.43% stake and a squeeze-out vote still to come.
Strategic Capital, which holds 13.67% of GungHo, lists a ¥200 dividend, a Sony Music share resale, a takeover or leadership change as proposals, and plans a shareholder proposal on the 2026 payout for January and February 2027.
Temairazu, a hotel reservation software provider, says a third party may have viewed or obtained booking records on up to about 4.45 million people, and that it cannot yet estimate the effect on earnings.
Tecmira's Life Design segment returned to profit after a new game's July 16 worldwide launch, but the group's operating loss remains and its positive ordinary income includes a ¥119.9mn exchange gain.
Crunchyroll holds 7.03% of Link-U after paying ¥917.5mn at ¥856 a share, with a consent right over specified deals with its competitors, a conditional board nomination and a 10% ceiling on further buying.
True Data will acquire the Osaka maker of the MUSASI hardware-store system, partly funded by a ¥200mn MUFG Bank loan, on the company's view that trade purchases can foreshadow household demand; its two disclosures give different price figures.
Nihon Falcom raised its operating profit forecast for the year to September to ¥2.8bn from ¥2.2bn, crediting sales of its recent releases, and plans a ¥60 dividend including a ¥30 commemorative payout.
coconala will pay ¥867mn for 51% of Acrosstudio, a 63-person AI consultancy with ¥1.13bn in sales and ¥46mn operating profit in the year to June 2026, with the transfer scheduled for October 30.
Image Information agreed to buy a CRM call-centre business for ¥170mn in cash, effective October 1, with 85 employees due to transfer; the unit earned ¥86mn in operating profit in the year to May on unaudited seller figures.
note's operating profit for the nine months to August was ¥849mn against ¥127mn a year earlier, with the media platform earning ¥886.9mn of segment profit and the new AI-related unit ¥28mn, while the full-year forecast stayed unchanged.
A Bain Capital-linked vehicle drew 10,365,448 shares in its offer for baudroie,inc. and expects 85.68% of voting rights after the October 13 settlement and founder transfers, with a squeeze-out and Prime market delisting planned.
Strategic Capital, holding an unchanged 13.67% of GungHo Online Entertainment, lists a third-party buyout, a dividend increase, a treasury-share buyback from specific shareholders with resale to Sony Music Entertainment, and board changes if the company stays listed.
Link-U Group has set October 8 for payment on 1,071,900 new shares at ¥856, worth ¥917.5mn, after Crunchyroll's required foreign-investment notification procedures were completed; the issue still depends on its registration statement taking effect.
A major BASE shareholder has told the company it will buy again from October 2 to push its holding past 30%, after a disagreement over management support, while the board keeps backing SBI Holdings' extended tender offer and stays neutral on tendering.
IPS, Inc. will issue 1,263,500 shares through Mizuho, with up to 189,500 more tied to an over-allotment, and says net proceeds of up to ¥5.49bn will go to a roughly ¥23bn Wakayama cable project whose final cost to IPS remains open.
New shares would raise HENNGE up to ¥2.36bn net, counting the over-allotment-linked allotment, while its president and two other holders sell 1.38mn shares for themselves ahead of an approved move to Prime.
Toshin Holdings' rehabilitation plan would swap an estimated ¥635mn of interest and penalty claims for Class A shares, cutting founder-linked votes to about 26%, with creditors voting from October 29 and cash tranches unfilled.
WOWOW holds 51% of the new Lemino streaming company, and NTT Docomo has paid ¥841.1mn for new WOWOW shares, a separate holding in the broadcaster itself; the earnings effect is still under review.
SoftBank Group paid the last $10bn of its $30bn OpenAI top-up on October 1 with senior bond proceeds, taking cumulative investment to $64.6bn and its stake to about 13%, and cancelled $10bn of undrawn bridge capacity.
The satellite company has signed for 20 dedicated Electron launches between 2028 and 2031, and says the deal does not change its December-year guidance.
Media Do will sell Quality Solutions, NetGalley and three subsidiaries to Valsoft for $20mn, about ¥3.15bn, and expects a special gain in the quarter to November 2026 that it has not yet quantified.
SBI Holdings' offer vehicle lengthened its ¥340-a-share bid for BASE from 20 to 30 business days after reviewing how holders had tendered, with the 20.67% ceiling and BASE's neutral stance untouched.
SUSMED began selling its Medcle insomnia app on 1 June, but the year to June 2026 rested on ¥340mn of partner milestones, ended with a ¥382.7mn net loss, and the annual report gives no sales figures for the app.