industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5
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.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5
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.
Denfaminicogamer
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5
Office Nino signing an actor who is already sharing a drama with its founder turns a working relationship into a company roster, which is a different kind of commitment than a single co-starring credit.
Cinema Today
industryannouncement 1 sources · Oct 5
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.
ASCII.jp
industryannouncement 1 sources · Oct 5
The October slate stacks a game-to-film adaptation and a full Made in Abyss catch-up block ahead of the October 23 theatrical release of Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery, using streaming to prime the franchise audience.
Denfaminicogamer
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5
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.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 5
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.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
The design shows where corporate AI is landing first: not in generating shareholder answers but in recall and document search under pressure, with a person keeping final judgment.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
The deal routes corporate AI adoption through an established regional ICT supplier, which is the kind of local channel VALANCE has now decided to build in Kyoto Prefecture.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
Sony is redirecting its trade-show presence toward games, anime, film, music and the creator-focused technology those businesses run on, after decades of carrying the consumer electronics floor in Las Vegas.
Denfaminicogamer
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
io is buying into a production partner rather than only contracting it, which ties a video studio's output to a company that also runs media and software businesses.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
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.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
The report shifts the 5-trillion-yen figure from a headline number to a map of ordering routes, letting companies outside semiconductor manufacturing locate where their own technologies and services connect to the buildout at Yokkaichi and Kitakami.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
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.
ASCII.jp
industryannouncement 1 sources · Oct 4
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.
ASCII.jp
industryannouncement 1 sources · Oct 4
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
industryevent 1 sources · Oct 4
The session gives Nikon a slot at a creator-focused event to argue that RED-derived RAW color science belongs in everyday video production, not only in cinema-grade work.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
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.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
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.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
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
Salami Studios' ADR work bridged Japanese anime and North American animation, so one studio's closure removes a single point of contact for both sides of a localized sound production pipeline.
Anime News Network
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
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
Kodansha's catalog now has a single commercial entry point for the Americas, which puts an advertising firm rather than a publisher at the front of brand deals for its titles.
Anime News Network
industrybusiness 1 sources · Oct 4
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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