Japanese tech investor SoftBank said Wednesday that its stake in OpenAI is now around 11% after completing the second stage of a $41-billion investment in the maker of ChatGPT. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/31/companies/softbank-openai-stake-lift/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #openai #tech #ai
Taiwanese tech titan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract maker of chips, has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometer semiconductor chips, the company announced. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/31/tech/tsmc-production-2nm-chips/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tsmc #chipmakers #taiwan #china #us #computers #tech
The year-end balance of bank notes in circulation in Japan is estimated to have fallen for a third straight year amid the rise of cashless payments, according to Bank of Japan data. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/31/markets/bank-notes-fall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #boj #cashless #creditcards #ecommerce
Most Federal Reserve officials expect additional interest rate cuts as long as inflation declines over time, though they remain divided over when and how far to cut, minutes of this month’s meeting show. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/31/economy/fed-minutes-rate-cuts-inflation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #us #federalreserve #interestrates #inflation #globaleconomy
Warner Bros. Discovery will likely reject Paramount Skydance's amended $108.4 billion hostile bid for the storied Hollywood studio despite a personal guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison backing the offer. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/31/companies/warner-bros-reject-paramount-bid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #warnerbros #paramount #tv #media #film #hollywood #netflix
Konstantin 🔭
boosted
Added expense recording to the new app. It recognises if you’re in the UK and helpfully provides buttons to quickly let you select the appropriate HMRC mileage allowance 👍🚗
#buildinpublic #business #indiedev
Added expense recording to the new app. It recognises if you’re in the UK and helpfully provides buttons to quickly let you select the appropriate HMRC mileage allowance 👍🚗
#buildinpublic #business #indiedev
For Japanese markets in 2025, it was politics, politics, more politics and AI, with significant downs and ups along the way to a strong performance overall. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/markets/market-look-back-2025/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #tse #nikkei #stocks
In the Indian state of Rajasthan, some of the world's biggest beverage firms face the challenge of securing and managing dwindling water supplies while navigating strict government rules and local grievances. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/india-water-crunch-beverage-giants/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #india #water #drinking #environment
Artificial intelligence’s appetite for data storage has delivered Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia world-beating stock gains this year, a sign the AI boom is alive despite recent market jitters. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/companies/kioxia-ai-stock/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #kioxia #ai #chipmakers #stocks #tech
U.S. investment firm KKR received first negotiation rights to take Yomeishu Seizo private, people familiar with the matter said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/companies/kkr-yomeishu-private/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #kkr #yomeishuseizo #investments #usalcohol
The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating, with one platform predicting nearly one in six new cars next year will be a hybrid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/carmakers-electric-vehicles-hybrid-models/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #carmakers #hybrids #cars #electricvehicles
U.S. President Donald Trump muses that he still might fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, teasing that he has a preferred candidate to replace him but is in no hurry to make an announcement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/markets/trump-fed-chair-pick/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #us #donaldtrump #jeromepowell #federalreserve
RFM, a hedge fund focused on Japanese equities, has attracted more than $800 million from investors as global interest in the country’s stock market has increased. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/companies/japan-focused-hedge-fund/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #rfm #stocks #investments
The annual number of companies delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange is set to hit a record high for the second straight year in 2025. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/markets/tse-2025-delisting-record/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #tse #stocks #corporategovernance #japanexchangegroup
Craftspeople say tatami must be redefined, noting that traditional methods of tatami-making could vanish within five years if the decline continues at its current pace. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/companies/tatami-foreign-clients/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tokyo #maff #kumamoto #japanesecrafts
Cory Doctorow
boosted
"there is a better way to respond to #tariffs. Tit-for-tat tariffs are a 19th-century tactic, & we live in a 21st-century world—a world where the most profitable lines of #business of the most profitable #US companies are all vulnerable to a simple #legal change that will make things cheaper for billions of people, all over the #world, including in the US, at the expense of the companies whose CEOs posed w/ #Trump on the inaugural dais."
- @pluralistic
https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/
"there is a better way to respond to #tariffs. Tit-for-tat tariffs are a 19th-century tactic, & we live in a 21st-century world—a world where the most profitable lines of #business of the most profitable #US companies are all vulnerable to a simple #legal change that will make things cheaper for billions of people, all over the #world, including in the US, at the expense of the companies whose CEOs posed w/ #Trump on the inaugural dais."
- @pluralistic
https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/
SoftBank Group is in advanced talks to acquire DigitalBridge Group, a private equity firm that invests in assets such as data centers, according to people with knowledge of the matter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/29/companies/softbank-digitalbridge-investment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #digitalbridge #datacenters #investments #ai