TOKYO, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — ALMEX INC. has launched Loveinn Japan, a website devoted to Japanese love hotels on April 25, 2016. Loveinn Japan is the first website in English exclusively for foreigners, with Chinese and Korean languages to be added in the coming months. Its purpose is to introduce the unique culture of [...]
TOKYO, JAPAN and TROY, MI, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Temp Holdings Co., Ltd. (TSE: 2181) and Kelly Services (NASDAQ: KELYA) (NASDAQ: KELYB) today announced an agreement to expand their existing North Asia joint venture, TS Kelly Workforce Solutions (formed in 2012), to cover all of Asia and the Pacific. The new joint venture, TS [...]
JAKARTA, INDONESIA, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Today Qilin World Capital Ltd announces the launch of its non-recourse share finance product in Indonesia. Shareholders of publicly traded securities on the Indonesia Stock Exchange that are looking to create liquidity while maintaining a presence in the red hot Indonesian market are encouraged to contact Qilin for [...]
HONG KONG, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The 20th Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART), organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), ended today. This year’s FILMART welcomed more than 7,300 buyers during the four-day fair, up 3 per cent over the previous year. There was a significant growth of buyers [...]
TOKYO, JAPAN, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that its Ethernet fabric-based New IP network switching solution has been deployed by Excite Japan Co Ltd (TSE: 3754) as a key part of the company’s service infrastructure. The Internet portal operator has completely re-engineered its data centers with the OpenStack software platform [...]
SINGAPORE, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Orchard Road Business Association (ORBA) announced the winners of its Best Dressed Building Contest 2015, which ran from 20 November 2015 – 5 December 2015. orchardgateway won the Voters’ Choice Award, while ION Orchard clinched the Judges’ Choice Award. Six other malls received merit awards for their decorations – [...]
TOKYO and ZURICH, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – TDK Corporation (“TDK”, TSE: 6762) and Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG (“Micronas”, SIX: MASN) jointly announced today that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which TDK will launch an all cash public tender offer for all publicly held registered shares of Micronas for CHF [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — PrivCo has just released the 2015 PrivCo Asia 20: Asia’s Largest Privately Held Companies by Revenue Report. PrivCo screened its proprietary Private Company Financial Database with information on over 850,000 private companies to rank the 20 largest private companies in Asia, based on 2014 revenue. The top 20 [...]
SINGAPORE and BARCELONA, SPAIN, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today signed a memorandum of intent to identify and nurture Singapore-focused start-ups to participate in the Cisco-Technopreneur Action Group, Platform Accelerated Start-ups (TAG.PASS) Smart Innovation [...]
MANILA, the Philippines, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Toronto, Vancouver and Singapore emerged as the top three cities in APEC in which to live and do business, according to a new study launched today at the APEC 2015 CEO Summit. The PwC study gives city leaders a view of where they are now, and it [...]