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| Aug 27, 2013 | Japan’s NTT Docomo Buys Fine Trade, An Austrian E-Commerce Solution Provider, For ‘Several Tens Of Millions Of Euros’ | Japanese carrier NTT Docomo today announced one more acquisition in Europe both to continue building out its operations in the region and beyond vanilla offerings like voice and mobile data: it is acquiring fine trade, an e-commerce and pay... |
| May 30, 2013 | 2013 is Darwinian tipping point year for telecoms industry: “Evolve or die!” according to IDATE research | Leading European think tank sees key to success lies in strong strategic relationships with other industry players such as content delivery providers
London, 30th May 2013 – IDATE, the No. 1 European Internet think tank, today has published... |
| Mar 25, 2013 | Docomo Inks Deal With China Mobile To Take Its ‘D Game’ Gaming Portal Abroad For The First Time | NTT Docomo, the largest carrier in Japan, is taking one more step into China today. The company announced that it will offer a localized version of its new “d game” gaming service on China Mobile. This will be the first time that d game is ... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | NTT DoCoMo Announces $109M Venture Fund, As Well As An Investment In 500 Startups | NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s leading mobile operator, has announced that it will invest in 500 Startups as it prepares to launch a 10 billion JPY ($109 million USD) venture fund in late February. The accelerator program will focus on the development... |
| Dec 7, 2012 | Without iPhone, Japan’s biggest mobile carrier is losing subscribers at a record rate | Remember when Japanese carrier NTT Docomo was the darling of the wireless world, could do no wrong, and was the subject of every adoring U.S. report on how mobile in Japan rocked in every possible way?
Japanese hipsters watched TV, gamed, b... |
| Dec 7, 2012 | Without iPhone, Japan’s biggest mobile carrier is losing subscribers at a record rate | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Remember when Japanese carrier NTT Docomo was the darling of the wireless world, could do no wrong, and was the subject of every adorin... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | NTT DOCOMO Launches $125M Fund and Incubation Program | NTT DOCOMO, INC., a Japanese mobile operator and provider of integrated services centered on mobility listed on the Tokyo (9437), London (NDCM) and New York (DCM) stock exchanges, is launching a 10-billion-yen ($125m) fund and incubation pr... |
| Oct 26, 2012 | NTT Docomo establishes new $125 million fund | Japanese mobile also creates new incubator for smartphone and tablet related startups
NTT Docomo, the largest phone operator in Japan, is establishing a new ¥10 billion, or $125 million, fund, meant to help new businesses develop for smartp... |
| Oct 26, 2012 | Japan’s NTT Docomo Launches $125M Incubator Fund And Program To Accelerate Homegrown Mobile Innovation | Good news for Japanese startups: Japan’s largest mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, has announced a $125 million (¥10 billion) investment fund and incubator program for smartphone and tablet related startups — to be called the Docomo Innovation Fu... |
| Oct 11, 2012 | Kii Cloud Opens Doors For Mobile Developer Platform With 25 Million End Users | A mobile back-end as a service (MBaaS) called Kii Cloud officially opened for developers today, boasting 25 million end users and a group of distribution partners, including NTT docomo. Kii Cloud, in development for the past two years, marr... |
| Oct 1, 2012 | Japan’s Third Largest Carrier, Softbank, To Acquire Fourth Placed eAccess In Share Swap Worth $2.6BN | Japan’s third largest carrier, Softbank, is to acquire fourth-placed carrier eAccess in a share swap deal valued at just under ¥200 billion ($2.6 billion), Reuters is reporting (original story at the Nikkei business daily).
The deal is aime... |
| Jul 13, 2012 | Docomo buys 20% interest in China's Baidu platform | The Japanese mobile operator follows global opportunities, first in India, Italy, now China
After a year of talks, a mobile content partnership between NTT Docomo and China’s search giant Baidu have finally joined forces and according to a ... |
| Jul 13, 2012 | Docomo Closes $22.5M, 20% Investment In Baidu Mobile Content JV: DeNA Games Coming First | It’s been a long time coming — plans for a mobile content partnership between NTT Docomo and China’s search giant Baidu were announced a year ago — but today it’s finally happened: the Japanese telco has announced the completion of their $2... |
| May 14, 2012 | NTT Docomo Will Pay Up To $300M To Buy Italian Mobile Content Company Buongiorno | Mobile carrier NTT Docomo today announced a move in its strategy to grow its content business outside of its traditional base of Japan: it issued a tender offer to acquire Buongiorno, a mobile content company based in Italy, paying up to ¥2... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Eye-Fi Completes $20M Series D Funding | Eye-Fi Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of a wireless memory card, has completed a $20m Series D funding.
The round was led by NTT DOCOMO,INC., with participation from existing investors Shasta Ventures, Opus Capital and TransL... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Wireless memory card maker Eye-Fi raises $20M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Eye-Fi, a company that produces wireless-transmit... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | comScore: Japan, An Early Mover In Mobile, Trails The U.S., Others In Smartphones | Smartphone users are, country by country, starting to gradually outnumber those who are using feature phones, and at the same time, consumers have passed a different kind of penetration: a majority are now using mobile devices to do a lot m... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | Watch out Qualcomm, DoCoMo taps Samsung, Fujitsu, others for LTE chip venture | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Qualcomm’s mobile chipset dominance may be threat... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | Watch out Qualcomm, DoCoMo taps Samsung, Fujitsu, others for LTE chip venture | Qualcomm’s mobile chipset dominance may be threatened by a new joint venture spearheaded by Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, focusing on next-generation LTE products.
DoCoMo is investing $5.8 million in a wholly owned subsidiary, dubbed Communication Pl... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | 5 Japanese Tech Companies (And Samsung) Set Up LTE Mobile Chip Venture | Big news from Asia’s mobile market today: Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo (55 million customers, over US$50 billion in sales per year) is teaming up with five other tech powerhouses to develop chips for next-generation mobile devi... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | Japan’s Top 3 Mobile Carriers Agree To Support Global NFC Standard | Japan, one of the most advanced mobile nations in the world, doesn’t want to be a “cell phone Galapagos” anymore, at least when it comes to payments over NFC. Paying with cell phones is already ubiquitous in Japan, but now the country’s top... |
| Oct 4, 2011 | Affle Secures over $10m Investment from D2 COMMUNICATIONS | Affle, a Singapore-based mobile media company, has secured over $10m investment from D2 COMMUNICATIONS Inc., a Japan large mobile advertising company.
D2C, a subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO, INC. in joint venture with DENTSU INC in Japan, joins Mi... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Orange To Bring Sharp 3D Android Phone To Asia And Europe | Is this finally the beginning of Japanese Android phones being made available outside their home market? Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo yesterday announced it has inked a deal with French telco Orange to bring a Sharp Android han... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | NTT Docomo’s Cases Make Smartphones Measure Radiation, Body Fat, Alcohol | Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo unveiled a few pretty interesting smartphone add-ons today. Perhaps most notable are a set of special cases the company developed to not provide extra protection but to add unique functions to the h... |
| Sep 8, 2011 | Fujitsu’s Waterproof LTE F-01D Android Tablet To Land In Japan Next Month | Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo is stepping up its efforts to bring Xi, its LTE service, to the masses: today, the company announced two tablets that are compatible with the standard for the Japanese market, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 an... |
| May 16, 2011 | NTT Docomo's Smartphone Line-Up For Summer 2011 | Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo has announced its summer line-up of cell phones today, and we have squeezed all their nine new smartphones (plus Fujitsu’s Windows 7/Symbian hybrid) into this article for your reading pleasure (clic... |
| May 16, 2011 | LOOX F-07C: Fujitsu's Symbian/Windows 7 Dual Boot Cell Phone Unveiled | It turns out the leak we blogged last month is true: Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo today officially introduced the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C as part of its summer line-up, and the device actually does dual-boot to Symbian and Windows 7... |
| May 13, 2011 | NTT Docomo Partners With Twitter For New Location-Based Service In Japan | Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo today announced it will develop with Twitter a set of new mobile services for its domestic customer base of 58 million. Under the deal, Docomo plans to integrate a “touch and follow” app into NFC-eq... |
| May 13, 2011 | What you need to know - 05/13/11 | Facebook hires outside PR firm to smear Google; An interview with new Lightbank partner Paul Lee
Investment bank Caris & Co. estimates that, in 2011, Kindle revenues will reach $5.42 billion, and by 2012, they’ll reach nearly $8 billion... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Japan's Docomo To Sell LG's Optimus Pad This Thursday For $980 | Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo today announced [press release in English] that LG’s 3D-capable Optimus Pad will go on sale in the country as early as this Thursday. That means that the Android 3.0 device will hit stores in Japan ... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Asian Power: China Mobile, NTT Docomo And KT Form Business Alliance | It can’t get bigger than this in Asia’s mobile industry, and in fact, it’s a business alliance with the potential to shake things up on a global level. Today, the world’s biggest mobile carrier China Mobile, Japan’s No. 1 player NTT Docomo ... |
| Dec 27, 2010 | Xi: NTT Docomo Rolls Out Japan's First LTE service | In August, we reported that NTT Docomo, Japan’s biggest mobile carrier, is ready to invest a whopping $3.4 billion through 2012 in an LTE service the company has named “Xi” (which is read Crossy). And over the weekend (and as announced prev... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Evernote Gets Down to Business: Launches Sponsored Accounts for Schools and Companies | Evernote just announced the launch of sponsored business accounts for organizations and businesses. These new account types will give schools, businesses and other organizations the option to pay for their members’ and employees’ accounts. ... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Video: NTT Docomo's Coolest New Cell Phones For This Winter | We’ve already shown you some cool cell phones Japan’s biggest mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, plans to roll out in the next few months (see the list below for a recap). But there were quite a few more worth mentioning in the company’s new winte... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | CEATEC 2010: "Augmented Reality Walker" From Olympus (Video) | One of the “sub trends” of this year’s CEATEC exhibition (that’s currently taking place near Tokyo) is augmented reality, especially among the telecommunications companies. Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo is experimenting with an ... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Under "Xi" Brand: Docomo To Invest $3.4 Billion In Japanese LTE Infrastructure | With 55 million customers, the 800-pound gorilla in the world’s most advanced mobile society, Japan, is NTT Docomo. And over the weekend, the company made clear it wants to retain its position in an LTE future: Docomo is ready to invest $3.... |
| Jul 13, 2010 | MobileBeat: Will Android beat iPhone in mobile gaming? | While Android’s user base is expected to surpass the iPhone’s, many passionate gamers would tell you that the gaming experience on the iPhone is far better than on Android – primarily because of the buttonless form factor of iPhone, but als... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | Report: Fujitsu develops its first Android phone | And we have yet another cell phone maker joining the Android bandwagon. Various Japanese media, for example Sankei Digital [JP], are reporting that Fujitsu is currently working on an Android-based smartphone.
Details are scarce at this poin... |
| Jul 6, 2010 | Japan's NTT Docomo to make all of its cell phones SIM-free from April 2011 | Big shake up in Japan’s cell phone industry (100 million mobile subscribers) today: NTT Docomo, the country’s leading carrier (55 million customers), is planning to make all of its cell phones SIM free as early as April 2011 (the start of t... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | Red Bend Software Achieves 750 Million Mobile Devices | First Quarter Is Strongest Ever for Mobile Software Management Shipments, With One in Four Mobile Phones Red Bend-Enabled™
WALTHAM, Mass.—June 8, 2010—Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced... |
| May 19, 2010 | Photo gallery and video: NTT Docomo unveils 20 (partly amazing) cell phones | Japan has been flooded with new cell phones over the last few days. We’ve shown you KDDI au’s 10 new handsets Monday, SoftBank Mobile’s 13 new models yesterday, and now it’s time for NTT Docomo‘s summer lineup. Japan’s biggest mobile carrie... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu, NEC jointly develop new mobile OS | Just last week, we asked the question if the world needs yet another mobile operating system (Samsung’s Bada). Now it turns out Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, apparently thinks the answer is yes. The telecom behemoth (55 mi... |
| Feb 19, 2010 | $2.2 billion liabilities: Japan's wireless carrier Willcom files for bankruptcy | Wikipedia has a pretty useful list of countries by number of mobile phones in use, which shows that Japan (with around 100 million users) is the No. 7 in the world. The market is largely controlled by mobile carriers NTT Docomo, KDDI au and... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Social Music Player TuneWiki Gets An Infusion From NTT Docomo | Social music player TuneWiki is on a funding roll. The startup just raised $7 million in Series B funding from Motorola Ventures, Intellect Capital Ventures, HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT and Benchmark Israel. Today, TuneWiki is announcing th... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | 27 mobile companies line up against Apple | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Wholesale Applications Community, announced this morning at the Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona, Spain, is basically ... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | 27 mobile companies line up against Apple | The Wholesale Applications Community, announced this morning at the Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona, Spain, is basically an attempt by wireless carriers — “operators” in Euro-speak — to turn mobile app developers against Apple... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | NTT Docomo to start LTE services in Japan in December 2010 | Faster data access with virtually no latency: LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile broadband networks are coming, at least in the world’s most advanced mobile market, the nation of Japan. The country’s biggest cell phone carrier, NTT Docomo, sa... |
| Nov 10, 2009 | NTT Docomo announces 19 new cell phones (photo gallery) | Following KDDI’s announcement three weeks ago, Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier NTT Docomo today unveiled [JP] its winter-line up of cell phones (SoftBank, the No.3, did the same). And here are all the new models announced by Docomo for t... |
| Sep 10, 2009 | Cerego Raises $3.4 Million For Smart.fm, Launches Facebook Friend Quiz | Japanese company Cerego, the brains behind the social learning platform iKnow!, has raised $3.4 million in a round of funding from NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier. To date, Cerego has raised a total of $23.4 million in fund... |
| Sep 7, 2009 | This isn't going to end well: NTT Docomo to enter the US cell phone market next year | Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, the country’s biggest mobile phone subscriber with over 50 million subscribers, is considering fully entering the American cell phone market – as early as next year. Various Japanese media are reporting that the company ... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | Bad start: Toshiba fails to properly launch the TG01 in Japan | I haven’t had the chance yet to try it out but those who did say the Toshiba TG01 seems to be a pretty good cell phone. Needless to say, the TG01 (1 Ghz CPU, 9.9mm body and a 4.1-inch touchscreen) was due out in Japan first. But most custom... |
| May 25, 2009 | KDDI au rolls out 8 new (and partly awesome) cell phones | Japanese telecommunications giants SoftBank and Docomo unveiled their summer 2009 line-ups last week and were followed by the country’s No. 2 carrier, KDDI au, today. While SoftBank is to roll out 15 new cell phones this summer and Docomo e... |
| May 19, 2009 | Softbank floods Japan with 15 new cell phones (part 1: all Sharp models) | Big news from Japan’s cell phone market today as Japan’s No.3 telecommunications company SoftBank and the No. 1, NTT Docomo, presented their new cell phone line-ups for the summer. Softbank announced a total of 15 new models [JP] (sales sta... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | Smoldering Bolds: New BlackBerry gets yanked from shelves again | Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold has been one of the most problematic smartphones of the year. The handset was delayed several times for purported 3G network testing, while rumors swirled that the real problem was that the device was ov... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | NTT Docomo floods Japan with 22 new cell phones | Japan’s biggest telco NTT DoCoMo today announced 4 new cell phone series (STYLE, PRIME, SMART and PRO ), which are part of the company’s fall/winter product line-up. Docomo will offer a total of 22 new handsets.
As Japanese handset makers h... |
| Oct 2, 2008 | CEATEC 2008: Docomo's (awesome) detachable cell phone up and close (2 videos) | http://blip.tv/play/ih_Q1DOJ5FQ
At this year’s CEATEC, Little Seiko, the kindergarten girl robot, is the unbeatable fan favorite, but NTT Docomo‘s (Japan’s biggest telecommunications company) detachable handset is surely one of the top 5 pr... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Sharp builds the world's first mobile phone with built-in car key | Nissan‘s proprietary “Intelligent Key” technology will soon be built into a mobile phone, which is produced by Sharp and, at this point, unfortunately Japan-only. The Japanese car company’s key system is already used in over 950,000 vehicle... |
| Aug 31, 2008 | Google's Strategy In Japan: Avoid Yahoo And Take Over The Mobile Web First | Google may be the leader in the worldwide search engine market, but in Nippon, it has some catching up to do: In 2007, Yahoo Japan saw a whopping 76% of the nearly 350 billion search engine and portal-related pageviews registered in the cou... |
| Aug 9, 2008 | Japan’s super-advanced mobile web: Too unique to serve as a global blueprint? | Over one billion cell phones have been sold worldwide in the last year, but in the US or Europe, the mobile Internet is still catching on relatively slowly. There even was a heated debate in the blogosphere just recently whether the mobile ... |
| Jun 4, 2008 | Japan will get the iPhone "later this year" | Today Softbank, Japan’s No. 3 mobile telecommunications company after DoCoMo and au, said they will be releasing the iPhone in Japan.
In light of this big announcement, the press release seems to be rather short:
“SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. toda... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Super 3G successfully tested in the field | Success! NTT DoCoMo has successfully tested a Super 3G system out in the field and they managed downlink speeds at 250Mbps. Testing on the Super 3G system that consists of four MIMO antennas has been going on since February just south of To... |
| Dec 10, 2007 | Japanese Mobile Phone Just for Children | When children are off on their own parents can worry about a child’s welfare. In Japan, NTT DoCoMo will launch a second parent friendly mobile phone for children. The first phone of this type was offered in 2006 and sold around 500,000 unit... |
| May 29, 2007 | LG Simpure L2: Oh, I get It, It's Simple | Say hello to another LG cellphone with a funny name, the Simpure L2. No, not Simple, silly, the Simpure. It’s currently only scheduled to make an appearance on Japan’s NTT Docomo carrier, but that doesn’t mean we can’t at least get it to sh... |
| Apr 23, 2007 | DoCoMo Hopes You'll Wave Your Wand In Public | NTT DoCoMo is taking a design cue from Nintendo’s oh-so-very-popular Wii for the Japanese wireless giant’s newest phone. The D904i features motion-sensing technology for playing games on the handset. It will be joined by two other handsets ... |
| Mar 14, 2007 | NTT DoCoMo Releases 3G Big Brother Mobile | Watch out Japan, your healthy unhealthy addiction to porn is being curbed by NTT DoCoMo’s 3G FOMA F903iBSC(wtf) “business-use” mobile phone. The mobile is being launched in response to information leaks and non-work related use of corporate... |
| Jun 15, 2006 | DoCoMo, Vodafone, Handset Vendors To Work On Mobile Linux | NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, Motorola, Samsung, NEC and Panasonic say they’ll work together on mobile Linux, building it into a consistent platform that can be adopted by multiple vendors. Sound familiar? It’s pretty similar to separate plans anno... |
| May 9, 2005 | DoCoMo finds its way to San Jose | NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s leading wireless operator, is forming DoCoMo Capital, a venture fund to be based in San Jose, and to invest mainly in U.S venture companies that develop “advanced mobile communication technologies.”
Here‘s the release:
N... |
| Aug 17, 2004 | DoCoMo Waits A Month To Admit Their Athens Network Is Just For Show | Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo got a bunch of press coverage a month ago for announcing the somewhat innovative plan to set up a temporary extension of their 3G FOMA mobile phone network in Athens. Basically, it was pitched as a way t... |
| Nov 8, 2002 | DoCoMo profits disappear | DoCoMo profits disappear
08-11-2002
Japan's biggest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, has seen a 95 per cent drop in half-yearly profits.
The company, which is expanding in Europe, made JPY 4.2bn ($35m), down from JPY 83.7bn last year.
It's been... |
| Oct 3, 2002 | DoCoMo writes off 3bn | DoCoMo writes off 3bn
03-10-2002
NTT DoCoMo has written off a massive 3 billion in overseas assets for the first six months of the year after market prices tumbled.
More than half comes from its investment in AT and T Wireless.
The rest was... |
| DoCoMo создает деревянный телефон | DoCoMo создает деревянный телефон
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Японская компания использует отходы древесины, чтобы построить экологический телефон.
Компания NTT DoCoMo представила прототип мобильного телефона, корпус которого сделан... |