LINE’s “Acquisition” Would Accelerate Demae-Can’s Growth in the Japanese Food Delivery Market
The "acquisition" offers both the capital and a fairly big cross-selling opportunity for Demae-can to stay ahead of competition and accelerate...
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Coronavirus QE, the BOJ, and ETF Buying
After the worst week in US equity markets in a long time, with sharply rising equity volatility causing risk parity funds and their ilk to shed...
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Naver, SoftBank's Savior Again? This Time with Coupang?
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Japan Payment Wars: NTT Docomo and Merpay/Origami to Attempt Catch up with PayPay and Rakuten
When Origami, the only independent mobile payments provider, last month agreed to be bought by Mercari and merge its systems with Mercari’s own...
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Lawson and KDDI Join Forces in Cashless Payments War
With a series of mergers over the past three months alone, the big three mobile providers, along with Rakuten Inc (4755 JP) and Amazon.com Inc...
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