Mayumi Negishi was a correspondent who covers technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in Japan. Her stories covered games, casinos, messaging apps, and telecom firms.

KDDI to deploy AMD-powered 5G by 2026 – Japanese operator KDDI will adopt AMD’s 4th Gen EPYC processors to boost the performance and energy efficiency of its 5G virtualized network, with nationwide ...

Japanese investment giant SoftBank is dipping its toes back into crypto by backing a new bitcoin (BTC) investment vehicle, Twenty One Capital, in conjunction with Tether, Bitfinex, and Cantor ...

Expo pavilions offer collectible NFTs on Aptos, enhancing user engagement.

At the very least, though, SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son can say that he just misread the potential of the failed landlord’s business model. Explaining away his decision to take a minority stake ...

Cantor Fitzgerald, SoftBank Group, Tether, and Bitfinex have joined hands to launch Twenty One. The consortium of traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) firms announced on ...

A gridded wooden structure formed using traditional joinery makes up The Grand Ring, which Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects has used to encircle the Expo 2025 Osaka in Japan. At 61,035 ...

Bitcoin price (BTC) is extending its gains, trading above $94,000 at the time of writing on Wednesday, following a two-day ...

from the company on Wednesday. Tether will contribute $1.5 billion of Bitcoin to the new company, while Bitfinex, a Tether-affiliated exchange, and SoftBank plan to put in $600 million and $900 ...