Toshiba: The Surprising Lack of Read-Across to the Rest of Japan Inc.
There is a tendency to view Toshiba (6502 JP) as an extreme, but ultimately typical example of Japanese corporate culture (e.g. this well-worth...
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Yaskawa Electric's VI Fund Makes Smart Acquisition in Energy Storage Startup Teraloop
On the 23rd of March, Teraloop, an energy storage startup developing a utility grid-scale kinetic energy storage system accepted an investment from...
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KDDi (9433) - Are Slowdown Fears Overblown?
Trading on a PER of 13x, FY16 EV/OP of 9x and a dividend yield of almost 3%, it is hard to find fault with KDDi (9433) as an investment, yet the...
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Avex (7860): Shutting Down GEOCHANNEL
Analyst Thao Nguyen comment Avex announced on March 31st that it is shutting down GEO CHANNEL, which is a subscription video on demand (SVOD)...
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The Week That Was in NorthAsia@Smartkarma - Pearls, Galaxy S8, and Okinawa
Japan: New Street Research wrote some great research on Softbank Group Corp (9984 JP) called Softbank 2.0 Is Coming But, for Now, Upside Is Driven...
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