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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

DX Antenna Renames To Nippon DX Antenna After Merger

The merger folds Nippon Antenna's disaster prevention radio and local 5G work into DX Antenna's broadcasting and high-frequency technology, giving Elecom one antenna company across four business areas instead of two.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

BookLive To Sell Touhou Project Fan Comics As Commercial E-Books

Doujin distribution has usually run on event sales and creator-run shops, so an authorized commercial channel with BookLive handling licensing payments to Team Shanghai Alice rewrites who carries the paperwork and the money.

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industryannouncement 1 sources · Oct 5

GirlsAward Launches RUNWAY+ With Weekly Idol And Fashion News Show

GirlsAward is converting the audience it draws twice a year at physical events into a weekly YouTube operation, and staffing the first episode with an idol critic and an idol group member shows the programming is aimed at the same fandom the runway shows already serve.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

Visban Joins NTT Docomo's Millimeter Wave Initiative Dmwi

Docomo's dmwi framework now has a partner whose multi-hop repeater system targets the coverage and deployment cost problems that keep millimeter wave confined to dense urban and industrial sites.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5

Dell Survey Finds 84.7% Of Firms See Rising Security Risk

Respondents locate the likely start of AI-era damage at the PC and mobile device rather than the cloud, which puts endpoint, BIOS, and firmware spending on the table alongside the generative AI controls they say matter for the next two years.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4

NX Group Opens Applications for Second Open Innovation Program

The second round keeps the logistics group's co-creation channel with startups running as a standing program rather than a trial, with the first round's two picks now headed toward full-scale operation.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4

Gurutto Chiba And Rak City Begin Strategic Business Partnership

The partnership pairs two Chiba publishers' editorial and distribution operations under a stated plan to build a regional co-creation media network, which frames consolidation of local outlets as the route to customer acquisition and sustainable management rather than something driven by outside platforms.

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industryannouncement 1 sources · Oct 4

ReverV Marks First Anniversary With October Livestream

ReverV's push for donations, sponsorships, and external work orders shows a welfare operator treating corporate and individual support as core funding rather than a supplement to service income.

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industryannouncement 1 sources · Oct 4

Hulu Develops Live-Action Series From WEBTOON's The Mafia Nanny

The adaptation carries The Mafia Nanny's established audience and award recognition into a US streaming order, with Deadline reporting the project is believed to be the first English-language live-action series adaptation of a WEBTOON IP.

Anime News Network
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4

ROLEUP Launches Strategy Consulting Arm Built On FAS And M&A Work

ROLEUP is turning client demand for accounting, governance, and human capital advice, which the company says has been rising among listed firms, into a formal six-area consulting line rather than treating it as overflow from deal work.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4

Nihon PMI Partners Exits Long Life Holding In Founding-Family Buyout

The fund's first exit is a founding-family buyback rather than a resale, which tells you how the firm is defining success for a care provider it took private: value built on the ground, then handed back to the family that knows the region.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4

Naver Webtoon Names Yongsoo Kim And Gyu-nam Kim As Co-CEOs

The split keeps WEBTOON Entertainment's founder at the global parent while two executives with distinct backgrounds, one on creator policy and anti-piracy, one on operations and partnerships, run the Korean business, as the company says the structure is meant to strengthen local management and improve coordination with its global operations.

Anime News Network
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4

Smile Up President Noriyuki Higashiyama Steps Down

The agency handling compensation for Kitagawa's victims is handing its presidency to its compliance lawyer, a signal the remaining work is legal and administrative rather than managerial.

Anime News Network
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4

Tokyopop Closes Public Share Offer With Over 300 New Owners

The offer converts a few hundred fans into shareholders in a company whose own accountants doubt it can continue operating, so the money raised is both a lifeline and a test of whether the Owners Club model holds.

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