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MUFG Bank to monitor promising ventures in the world with AI. Scoring cash flow and growth potential
MUFG Bank will use AI (artificial intelligence) to routinely collect and analyze the management data of ventures (startups) around the world
Sep 5, 20222 min read


T Card company to sell customer data of 40 million people. Is your "consent" valid?
Culture Convenience Club (CCC) will start full-scale sales of personal data of T Card users. What is used is our usage history collected fro
Sep 4, 20221 min read


JR West raises some limited express fares up to 480 yen from April 2023
JR West announced on the 2nd that from April 2023, some limited express fares will be raised by up to 480 yen. To promote online reservation
Sep 3, 20221 min read


UNIQLO opens "virtual store", 360-degree browsing via shooting inside the actual store
Fast Retailing, which operates the casual clothing brand Uniqlo, opened a "virtual store" for a limited time on the 1st, reproducing a part
Sep 2, 20221 min read


NTT introduces a new HR evaluation system with Managers in their 20s, Sayonara to Nenko Joretsu
NTT announced on the 26th that it will introduce a personnel system that will allow regular employees to be promoted at an early stage regar
Aug 29, 20221 min read


Another KDDI voice call communication failure, affecting 83,000 people on the night of the 24th
KDDI (au) announced on the 25th that up to 83,000 people were affected by the communication failure that occurred on the night of the 24th.
Aug 25, 20221 min read


"Phishing Fraud" cases reported in July exceeded 100,000 for the 1st time, the highest ever
Last month, the number of reports on phishing scams, which tricks people by deceiving personal information by directing them to fake sites,
Aug 22, 20221 min read


PayPay Registered Users Surpassing 50 Million
PayPay announced on August 18 that the number of registered users of its cashless payment service "PayPay" exceeded 50 million. According to
Aug 18, 20221 min read


2TB HDD and SSD released by Elecom, that can be backed up directly from smartphones
Elecom will release 3 types of external storage for smartphone backup from the end of August.
This product can save data by connecting direc
Aug 18, 20221 min read


The reason why Square chose "PayPay" for their first bar code payments in Japan
The payment service "Square" now supports PayPay. The company will be the first in Japan to support QR bar code payments, and PayPay will be
Aug 12, 20221 min read


Rakuten Mobile, the first decrease in subscribers. Effect of the abolition of the zero yen plan?
Rakuten Group announced on the 10th that the number of mobile phone subscribers of Rakuten Mobile under its umbrella reached 5.46 million as
Aug 10, 20221 min read


SoftBank CEO pledges sweeping cost cuts after $23.4 billion loss
SoftBank Group’s Masayoshi Son said he plans widespread cost cutting at his Japanese conglomerate and its Vision Fund investment arm after a
Aug 10, 20221 min read
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