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ARM Holdings in £24bn Japanese takeover deal
ARM Holdings, one of the UK's biggest technology companies, is set to announce it is being bought by Japan's Softbank for £24bn ($32bn). The board of ARM is expected to recommend shareholders accept the offer — close to a 50% premium on its closing market value of £16.8bn on Friday. The Cambridge-based...
New Photo Of Japanese Hostage Appears With Message Pleading For Help
The Japanese government said on Monday it was doing all it could to secure the release of a Japanese journalist being held hostage by an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, after an apparent photograph of the man was posted on the internet. The photograph, apparently uploaded to the Internet late on Sunday, showed a bearded man...
Do the Japanese run the best meetings?
If you want to get your point across in a meeting in Finland, keep quiet; and let your counterparts deliberate. Of course, that won’t work at all in, say, Canada. As more of us do business across cultures and far-flung offices, every meeting can feel like a riddle. What do the long silences, idle chitchat and...
Playing with fire: Japanese game streamer burns down flat while toying with lighter (VIDEO)
A Japanese gamer set his house on fire after striking a removable lighter fuse went disastrously wrong. The real-time live-streamed inferno got over 3 million views on Youtube in 24 hours. The video, shot with a webcam, shows a man smoking a cigarette and playing with his lighter. He fills it with fuel and takes a removable...