Japan stories
Shared offices can now scan without a PC as PFU's new Ricoh models aim to speed up digitisation and cut setup time.
Britain's tech groups could tap fresh funding and customers as Japan seeks overseas partners in semiconductors, AI and clean energy.
It gives IT teams a way to track agent activity, enforce access rules and watch AI spending as deployments move beyond pilots.
Remote onboarding is leaving Asia-Pacific's most digital markets exposed, with Indonesia seeing the highest identity-fraud signals in Shufti's data.
Asia Pacific customers will get a new regional lead as SAP doubles down on AI-linked growth across one of its biggest markets.
Asia-Pacific treasurers can now move funds around the clock as J.P. Morgan expands blockchain settlement to eight currencies, including yen and renminbi.
Employees across APJ are missing clear career pathways, fuelling attrition, slower hiring and weaker leadership pipelines as internal mobility stalls.
The move gives fund managers a single route into IQ-EQ's wider services across 25 jurisdictions as it deepens its Asia-Pacific and Middle East reach.
Preventable attrition, absenteeism and hiring inefficiency are costing APAC firms millions per 1,000 employees, new research shows.
The hire comes as APJ customers accelerate AI deployment, raising demand for identity controls to manage human and machine access safely.
The award underlines growing enterprise demand for optimisation tools that can deliver gains on existing hardware without quantum systems.
The move gives the insurer software maker a foothold in a region where carriers are now seeking AI to speed underwriting and claims.
Demand for specialist AI staff is lengthening vacancies and driving salaries higher as firms move from experiments to deployment.
The move aims to help defenders turn faster vulnerability discovery into working fixes, as OpenAI broadens access to its cyber tools and partners.
Product teams may get concepts to review in minutes rather than months as the new service aims to speed early decisions on brand fit and compliance.
Lower costs and support income helped Panasonic New Zealand swing back to a small profit even as revenue slid to NZD $90.8 million.
The expansion will deepen Berkeley's ties with Japanese universities and government bodies as it scales bootcamps and founder exchange programmes.
Enterprises across Asia may move faster from AI pilots to production, as the deal targets scalable deployment in ASEAN, Japan and South Korea.
Japan's approval of RLUSD opens Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin to retail and institutional users, under strict rules via SBI VC Trade.
RACQ's member services will be reshaped by Adobe's AI tools under a five-year deal that also gives Deloitte Digital implementation control.
