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The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric vehicle charging division last month, Supercharger chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with the billionaire businessman about the network’s future. The meeting could not have gone worse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/16/companies/elon-musk-firings-tesla-supercharger/

metin, to business
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From the ar(t)chive…

Stylized 3D illustration for a 2007 business report, about the possible different faces of a supplier.

thejapantimes, to business
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The sale of hybrid vehicles are giving Japanese automakers cash that can later be reinvested into the production of EVs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/16/companies/japan-carmakers-hybrids/

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Amazon is the second-largest private-sector employer in the U.S. behind Walmart. As such, the company plays a leading role in setting pay and working conditions for a sector transformed by e-commerce. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/16/companies/amazon-workers-struggle-food-rent/

thejapantimes, to business
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Japan’s economy shrank in the first quarter as consumers and companies cut spending, extending a dismal performance that stretches back to last summer. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/16/economy/japan-gdp-drops/

thejapantimes, to business
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s sweeping tariff hikes on a range of Chinese imports are just the latest in a years-long campaign that is rewiring Asian trade routes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/16/markets/us-global-supply-chains/

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Google showed off new business AI solutions while promoting their water cooled data centers. Now we find out Microsoft is not only failing to meet their carbon emissions goal, their emissions are actually UP 30%.
I just don't see how this era of cloud AI is going to be a sustainable business model...

thejapantimes, to business
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Sharp is stopping production of large liquid crystal display television panels at its factory in the city of Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, the only production site for such TVs in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/15/companies/sharp-scales-back-lcd/

thejapantimes, to business
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Japan's biggest banks all forecast record profits for the year started in April, after the country’s central bank ended its policy of negative interest rates. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/15/companies/japan-megabanks-forecast-record-profits/ #business #companies #banks #boj #negativeinterestrates #mufg #mizuho #sumitomomitsui

thejapantimes, to business
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Mystays Hotel Management in Japan has decided the only way to deal with the country's severe labor shortage is to double salaries to unprecedented levels. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/15/companies/a-japan-hotel-doubles-pay-to-fight-labor-shortage/

thejapantimes, to business
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Japanese companies are increasing dividends and share buybacks at a record pace, providing support to a market that was on the verge of a correction and responding to pressure from the Tokyo Stock Exchange to improve capital efficiency and valuations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/15/markets/record-dividends-buybacks-anchor-for-japanese-stocks/ #business #markets #stocks #japaneseeconomy #tse

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According to the Swedish Games Industry, every fourth person in the world has played a game made in Sweden. With hits like "Minecraft", "Valheim", and "Raft" the country is producing many hits with small or one-man teams. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/15/companies/sweden-small-game-studios/

thejapantimes, to business
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Japan’s economy is likely to have contracted in the first three months of 2024 due in part to disruptions at car makers, clouding the growth outlook as the central bank attempts to set the right pace for policy normalization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/15/economy/japan-gdp-forecast-gloomy/

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So many intellectual property holders think game devs are an opportunity for passive income and not only charge exorbitant license fees but do nothing to promote the resulting game.

If you are a game dev, demand the license holder use their channels to push the game as if it were their own baby. Smart owners will want to do it too as it is win/win. That's what justifies the high fees, not some ephemeral notion of popularity.

thejapantimes, to business
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Honda is scaling down its full-time production workforce in China, with roughly 1,700 employees having agreed to leave thus far. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/15/companies/honda-cut-china-workforce/

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SomeGadgetGuy, to tech
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Google I/O wrapped up, and I have a LOT of thoughts. Shot a quick reaction video on the keynote here https://somegadgetguy.com/b/455
Some really interesting AI tools are coming, but will Gemini search continue hurting website traffic?

br00t4c, to business
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From framing to felines: This Toronto art store is home to multiple stray cats

https://nowtoronto.com/news/this-toronto-art-store-is-home-to-multiple-stray-cats/

SomeGadgetGuy, to tech
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Watching and there are some cool demonstrations of data center cloud computing, but there's also this fog of dystopia surrounding these demos.
The announcements for search are horrifying. Google is full mask off.

Phrases like "search for something, and we'll collect all this data for you" basically equates to:

"We sucked up ALL the data from people who really did the work, and we're going to give you the results of their hard work, but we wont take you to the site that generated the data. You can stay on the search page, and the site's traffic will plummet."

This is shocking.

thejapantimes, to business
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Rakuten has logged its fifteenth consecutive quarter in the red as losses at its mobile service network unit outweighed a record performance from its financial unit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/14/companies/rakuten-consecutive-loss/ #business #companies #rakuten #internet #phones #telecoms

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Sony Group said it expects operating income of ¥1.28 trillion in the year to March, missing analyst expectations for both profit and sales as PlayStation 5 hardware sales wane. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/14/companies/sony-profit-outlook/

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Nomura Holdings has set its its sights on almost doubling its pretax profit by the end of the decade, as its Chief Executive Officer Kentaro Okuda seeks to build on last year’s earnings revival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/14/companies/nomura-growth-plan/

metin, to business
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From the ar(t)chive…

Stylized 3D illustration for a 2007 business report, about different views upon a subject.

#view #business #design #artwork #illustration #illustrator #3DModeling #art #arte #artist #DigitalArt #ArtMatters #GraphicDesign #3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

thejapantimes, to business
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In the years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has quietly picked up its crown. Norway now supplies 30% of Europe's gas, and roughly two-thirds of Norway's exports last year were sold by Equinor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/14/companies/europe-gas-supply-company/

thejapantimes, to business
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SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, but the state's property records show the space venture and its contractors can be far slower to pay builders and suppliers than they are to break ground. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/14/companies/musk-spacex-texas-bills/ #x

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