Business Wire (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Taiwan’s largest music subscription service, KKBOX, today announced the expansion of its unlimited music download service for PC, iPhone and Android-based phones in Hong Kong with Hutchison Telecom. Backed by big-name investors and local telecom giants, the investor roster of KKBOX includes US-based Adobe, Japan’s Orix Group, and local telecom giant Chung-Hwa...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
David Hunkar submits: The complete list of Japanese ADRs traded in the U.S. is listed below: ADR Name Ticker Industry Advantest ATE Tech.Hardware&Equip. Canon CAJ Tech.Hardware&Equip. Hitachi HIT Electron.&ElectricEq Honda Motor HMC Automobiles & Parts Internet Initiative Japan IIJI Software&ComputerSvc Konami KNM Leisure Goods Kubota KUB Industrial Engineer. Kyocera KYO Electron.&ElectricEq...
Seattle Marinerds (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Hi guys -- I'm not dead, honest. Just feeling kind of burnt out after the season, and was REALLY busy last week with my school, and well, there's no real reason for me to translate news when someone else is doing that. I even skipped the Jingu HS/college baseball tourney last weekend in favor of watching hockey instead. (Which was really awesome. Thanks, Simon!) But, this Sunday I'll be going to the...
Talking Chop (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
An interesting note from the Japanese Yahoo baseball rumors site, via NPB Tracker : Daily Sports has a report saying that the Braves have some interest in signing Hidetaka Kawagoe , who was release by the Orix Buffaloes at the end of the season. Kawagoe, 36, moved from the rotation to the bullpen during the 2009 season, and profiles better as a reliever regardless of which league he next plays in....
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Japanese baseball will have at least one American manager for the eighth consecutive year in 2010, as Marty Brown takes over as field boss of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles after four years managing the Hiroshima Carp. Trey Hillman began the string when he became skipper of the Nippon Ham Fighters in 2003, and the trend reached its peak in 2007 when there were four U.S. managers: Brown, Hillman,...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The Wall Street Journal seems to think that Sam Nazarian's SLS at Beverly Hills, that new hotel at 465 S. La Cienega Boulevard that opened last fall on the site of the former Le Meridien hotel, may be on shaky ground, even if it's not clear that it actually is. Or maybe the WSJ is just covering its bases in case the hotel does run into serious financial trouble. Here's what the paper notes: "The...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Monex Group Inc. will merge its brokerage unit, Monex Inc., with Orix Securities Corp., an arm of Orix Corp., around next May, the two companies said Wednesday. The deal between Monex Group, the industry's third-ranked company in terms of revenue, and seventh-ranked Orix Securities will create Japan's second-largest online brokerage in revenue, after SBI Securities Co.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
* Monex shares drop 4.6 pct, Orix falls 2.5 pct (Updates value based on closing share price)
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
* Merger would create Japan's No. 2 online securities firm
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Japanese online brokers Monex Group Inc. and Orix Corp.'s Orix Securities Corp. plan to integrate operations by next spring, creating the nation's second largest Internet financial trader after SBI Securities Co., according to a report Wednesday. The merger is expected to take place through a stock swap, in which Monex would issue new shares and exchange them for the stock...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Three Japanese teams have already filled managerial vacancies while two others are expected to name their choices sometime soon as the Climax and Japan Series draw to a close, in time for fall camp, the Oct. 29 amateur draft and the printing of the 2010 team calendars. Kenjiro Nomura has taken over for Marty Brown as manager of the Hiroshima Carp, Akinobu Okada is the new field leader of the Orix Buffaloes,...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ORIX Venture Finance, a leading provider of expansion capital to mid- to late-stage venture-backed companies, announced today that it has provided debt financing to Pathology, Inc., consisting of a term loan and revolving line of credit. The financing was used to support the recapitalization of the company in conjunction with ABS Capital, and provide growth capital....
Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
ORIX USA Corp., a subsidiary of Japanese based international financial services provider, ORIX Corp., has selected PAM for Securities, the flagship investment accounting platform from Princeton Financial® Systems (PFS). PFS is a leading provider of investment accounting, compliance, data management and reporting solutions for the global institutional investors.
The Yankee Universe (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
From NPB: Sanspo has gotten a hold of Yusei Kikuchi’s meeting schedule over the rest of the month, leading up to the draft. Here’s the breakdown: Oct 16: meetings with Hanshin, Seibu, and Orix Oct 17: Chunichi, Yakult, Nippon Ham, Chiba Lotte, Hiroshima, Rakuten and others Oct 19: begin meeting with MLB clubs Oct 20: Cleveland Indians, others Oct 22: conclude [...]
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