Tech news: Japan
Japan’s tech startup news from August 2019
(Today’s startup news: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook)
- Japan: Toyota partners Preferred Networks AI startup in pursuit of robots for the home, spurred in part by Japan’s ageing population challenges
- Seven-Eleven Japan to scrap hacked mobile pay service in September, citing insurmountable security challenges
- The current state of cashless payments in Japan
- Japan: Visa plans biometric and other cashless payment methods for Tokyo Olympics 2020, supporting the government’s Cashless Japan initiative
- Japan: Line Pay mobile money transfer and payment service integrates China’s WeChat Pay to tap the inbound tourist market
- Japan: Are mobile payments finally ready to take off?
- Japan: A brief intro to the 5 B2B startups selected for the SAP iO Foundry Tokyo accelerator
- Japan: An intro to intheHood, a finalist in the recent WiT Japan & North Asia Startup Pitch 2019 aiming to be a top accommodation provider
- Japan’s Line Bank gains license for internet-only banking in Taiwan, building on 165M monthly active users globally
- Indonesia: Grab ride-hail giant to invest $2BN across 5 years with Japan’s SoftBank to accelerate development of the country’s digital infrastructure
