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Nov 7, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Lauly Li |Cheng Ting-Fang |Diana Mariska |Masaharu Ban |Anantha Ananthalakshmi
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Chip designer Arm Holdings (ARM) forecast revenue in line with Wall Street targets, sparking a 5% drop in shares in extended trading Thursday that some analysts attributed to dashed hopes for stronger, AI-fueled growth. Bets that Arm, which licenses its designs, will benefit from a surge in AI computing have more than doubled the chip designer’s share price since its initial public offer last September, giving it a market value of about $144 billion.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
ft.com | Cheng Ting-Fang |Lauly Li |Anantha Ananthalakshmi |Diana Mariska |Yusuke Yagi |Masaharu Ban
Hi from Taipei, where it’s really starting to feel like autumn! This is Cheng Ting-Fang, your #techAsia host for this week.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Masaharu Ban
TOKYO -- Aoni Production, the talent agency that manages big-name anime voice actors such as those from "Dragon Ball," is partnering with a Tokyo artificial intelligence startup to replicate the voices of performers into multilingual speech, the company announced on Monday. Masako Nozawa, who voices Dragon Ball's main character Son Goku, will be part of the collaboration with Coefont. She will join other famous voice actors, including Banjo Ginga of the "Gundam" series.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Masaharu Ban |Manami Ogawa |Akinobu Iwasawa
TOKYO -- Fake Facebook accounts posing as leading Japanese brokerages ran roughly 10,000 ads to scam users between August 2023 and May 2024, Nikkei has found, as the nation grapples with the spread of investment fraud. Investment scams on social media began to surge around the summer of 2023. Fake ads, including ones using the names and logos of real companies, are one way to draw victims in.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Masaharu Ban
TOKYO -- Taiwanese PC manufacturer Acer plans to sharply increase shipments of computers equipped with artificial intelligence features, Chairman and CEO Jason Chen told Nikkei. Acer will raise the share of Copilot+ PCs among deliveries to 40% by the third quarter of 2025. Copilot+ is a class of PCs designed to run AI developed by Microsoft.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Masaharu Ban
TOKYO -- U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI is preparing an improved version of its core large language model with triple the Japanese language processing power, aiming to compete with similar services being worked on by companies in Japan. "Japan is an important market" for OpenAI, Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap told reporters Monday as the company opened its Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Masaharu Ban
TOKYO -- Hello Kitty, Sonic the Hedgehog and other Japanese characters are starting to gather in Roblox, a U.S.-born online game platform and game creation system. In March, Doraemon will debut in the huge metaverse visited by 70 million people every day. Holders of the intellectual properties hope to raise the name recognition of their characters through Roblox, one of the world's largest metaverses, and increase sales of goods and other products related to them.
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Nov 26, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Masaharu Ban
TOKYO -- Services to help retailers handle online orders from overseas, from shipping to website translation, are gaining ground in Japan as small businesses seek to tap foreign demand fueled by a weak yen. One major player, Beenos, serves clients like Tackle Berry, a seller of used fishing equipment. Tackle Berry began working with Beenos last year, and within a few days saw a surge of foreign orders from countries including the U.S., Malaysia and Belarus.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
ft.com | Kenji Kawase |Toru Tsunashima |Tetsuya Abe |Kazuhiro Kida |Mercedes Ruehl |Masaharu Ban | +1 more
Hi, everyone. This is Kenji from Hong Kong.
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Masaharu Ban |Nami Matsuura
TOKYO -- Huawei Technologies is increasingly sourcing components for its smartphones in China, with a teardown of the recently released Mate 60 Pro showing Chinese parts constituting 47% on a value basis -- up 18 percentage points from a model analyzed three years ago. Nikkei, together with research firm Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, disassembled Huawei's high-end smartphone to analyze component costs. The Mate 60 Pro was released in August for the Chinese market.
