industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 13
The deal applies Sotas's supply chain and data infrastructure to TBM's CCU and recycled products at the point where Japanese GX chemical policy aims to convert investment into actual procurement and adoption.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 13
The tie-up is a bet that demand for GPU computing and regionally distributed data centers will outgrow what fixed facilities can supply, with the two companies pooling design, build, and operation roles rather than committing to a single construction project.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 2 sources · Oct 13
One bill for three services makes the subscription count as the unit of upsell, so tier design, not individual app pricing, decides how much a user pays.
GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 13
The partnership widens access to counseling through an existing employee benefit channel rather than a new standalone service, a route that mirrors how corporate mental health support is increasingly delivered.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 13
The $1 billion pledge and Genesis Mission role put NVIDIA inside U.S. government science programs, not only the commercial AI supply chain it already supplies.
GameBusiness.jp
industry 2 sources · Oct 13
Microsoft is moving its own chips to the center of its inference infrastructure, which shifts a large share of AI compute demand away from merchant GPUs and toward in-house silicon.
ASCII.jp
industryevent 1 sources · Oct 11
A decade-old exhibition built on the labor of yuri creators lost its opening weekend because it could not confirm the images promoting it were not machine-made, which tells the organizers' own contractors where the line now sits.
Anime News Network
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 10
The program pitches practical management training built on one company's own operations, using BUDDICA's business as teaching material rather than outside case studies.
ASCII.jp
industryevent 1 sources · Oct 9
The pitch lineup puts long-running Japanese film and toy properties next to comic originals in the same room as international gap-financing projects, which is the shape TIFFCOM is now selling to overseas buyers.
GameBusiness.jp
industry 2 sources · Oct 9
The study measures how much of an existing young audience's viewing anime takes up, not how popular anime is among teenagers overall, which is a narrower claim than the numbers will be read as.
Cartoon Brew
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 9
X Kitchen is betting that a government plan to cut the food consumption tax rate to 1% for two years from April 2027 will push more delivery demand through its zero-fixed-cost franchise model, and Torisho is the next brand it wants in place before that starts.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 9
The deal folds webtoon adaptation into the same pipeline as Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, with HAYATE, a venture staffed by Aniplex and Crunchyroll employees, handling development for Crunchyroll's platform.
Anime News Network
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 9
The first new-domain round since 2012 was pitched as an open naming window, but AI companies moved into it as a land grab over the words that name their own technology.
GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 9
The listing places a Japanese implementation consultancy inside OpenAI's partner program, a signal that OpenAI's enterprise push in Japan now runs through local delivery firms and not only direct sales.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 9
The MOU gives Dida a local partner for partner discovery and deal-making in Japan while explicitly leaving its existing Japan operations, hotel partners, suppliers and transaction terms untouched, so the agreement is about new business development, M&A and strategic collaboration rather than a change to how Dida runs its current distribution business.
ASCII.jp
industryevent 1 sources · Oct 9
Crunchyroll's forum drew a Hollywood director and a rapper to an industry-facing event, signaling anime's growing crossover into mainstream entertainment circles.
Anime News Network
industry 1 sources · Oct 9
The suspension blocks the labor certification step these companies need to sponsor green cards, and it lands on the same firms Vance singled out by name for what he described as replacing laid-off American workers with foreign hires.
GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 9
A Japanese AI vendor is pairing its enterprise platform with an international certification body, betting that corporate AI adoption sells on governance and trained staff rather than the tool alone.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 9
The provider has now told 495 companies and municipalities that their data may be gone, and with no recovery timeline and the management console still shut down, customers are left to rebuild from their own backups.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 8
A contract developer's quarter can swing on a single completed project and the timing of 3DCG work, which is why the full-year forecast moved for a second time rather than holding.
GameBusiness.jp
industrybusiness 2 sources · Oct 8
Sony is handing its XR patent portfolio to the company still investing in the field, while PS VR2 has not held a position for Sony the way the original PS VR did for the PS4.
Game Spark
industrybusiness 2 sources · Oct 8
Marvel's digital subscription library moves to an operator whose format is the vertical scroll, which sets the reading experience for the back catalog rather than the platform's own history.
GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 8
A digital marketing and CX consultancy adding a conversational AI phone platform to its proposal menu is a small signal that the reseller channel for Japanese corporate phone automation is widening beyond the vendor's own sales team.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 8
Crunchyroll is widening a paid manga app into eleven more markets while its console footprint narrows, with the main app set to leave the Nintendo Switch on October 30 and a PS5 anime hub due next spring.
Anime News Network