Nissan has committed to invest an additional $1.4 billion in China and says it sees the nation’s intensely competitive automobile market as fertile ground to help it develop electric vehicles. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/companies/nissan-china-investment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nissan #carmakers #electricvehicles #china

Nomura Holdings is telling clients to stay invested through the turmoil that has pervaded financial markets during the escalating trade tensions as it acquired an asset management business for $1.8 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/companies/nomura-us-markets/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nomura #investments #brokerages #us

Canada is seeing a boom in political books created with generative artificial intelligence ahead of its election, with such works flooding Amazon and raising concerns about how they might affect information voters get. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/companies/amazon-ai-political-books-canada-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #canada #ai #books #misinformation #fakenews #markcarney

Selling United States Steel to Nippon Steel would pose a risk to national security as well as to the entire American steel industry, the United Steelworkers (USW) said in a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/companies/united-steelworkers-letter-to-bessent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #steel #usjapanrelations #us #ussteel #nipponsteel

Japan’s biggest financial firms are abolishing decades-old practices that kept women off the corporate ladder. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/companies/japan-firms-clerical-job-category/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #banks #insurance #women039sissues #jobs

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he would cut back "significantly" the time he devotes to the Trump administration and spend more time running the electric-vehicle maker after deliveries of its aging lineup of cars nosedived. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/companies/musk-doge-tesla-sales-skid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #elonmusk #carmakers #tesla

Toyota Motor unit Hino Motors and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus, a subsidiary of Germany's Daimler Truck, are moving to finalize a merger agreement, a report said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/22/companies/toyota-daimler-truck-merger/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #daimlertruck #mergers

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Wayve Technologies, a U.K.-based AI and autonomous driving startup backed by SoftBank, has tapped Japan as the next location in its global expansion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/22/companies/wayve-ai-yokohama/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nissan #wayvetechnologies #uk #carmakers #ai #softbank #startups #yokohama

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Sumitomo and SBI Holdings are to each acquire a 20% stake in a unit of Vietnam’s software and telecommunications conglomerate FPT to foster artificial intelligence adoption in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/22/companies/sumitomo-sbi-stakes-vietnam/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #sumitomo #sbi #vietnam #fpt #ai #telecoms #software

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs could drive a recession that will make companies reluctant to invest in the world’s largest economy, according to the head of major Japanese beverage maker Suntory. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/22/companies/trump-tariff-japan-investment-appetite/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tariffs #donaldtrump #suntory #takeshiniinami #investments

A top-performing Japanese stock fund bought shares of Mitsubishi Estate over the past months on the view that inflation will lift revenue as the domestic real estate sector remains attractive. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/22/companies/mitsubishi-estate-shares-buy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mitsubishiestate #orbisinvestmentmanagement #tariffs #japaneseeconomy #inflation

https://www.europesays.com/uk/37347/ Von der Leyen warns X, Meta, TikTok to play by the rules in Europe — no matter who’s CEO – POLITICO #BigTech #Companies #DigitalMarketsAct #DigitalServicesAct #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #Enforcement #EU #Europe #European #JdVance #Platforms #Services #Tariffs #Trade #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen