TOKYO, Sept 5 (Reuters) - BroadVision Inc, a California-based e-commerce software company, said on
Tuesday it and four other firms would form an equally-owned joint venture to offer business-to-business
e-commerce software and services.
The four other firms are Itochu Corp <8001.T>, a major Japanese trading house, Itochu Techno-Science Corp
<4739.T>, Itochu's information processing unit, ACCESS, an unlisted Japanese provider of non-PC software,
and H&Q Asia Pacific, a California-based investment firm.
The new firm named B-Mobile Corp, to be formed in October in Tokyo, will provide a service for
Internet-based business transactions via wireless networks such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants
(PDAs) from January 2001 in Japan, the five firms said in a joint statement.
The new company aims at annual sales of 300 million yen in the first year and 900 million yen in the second
year.
Japan's overall mobile commerce market is expected to grow to 58.6 billion yen by the year to March 2004
from an actual one billion yen in 1999/2000, according to industry estimates.
The new company plans to team up with NTT Communications Inc, a unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corp <9432.T>, on using NTT Communications' network system and data centre, they said.
By 0537 GMT, Itochu's shares were down 0.41 percent at 487 yen. Itochu Techno-Science's shares were up
0.22 percent at 18,490 yen.
((Tokyo Equities Desk +81-3 3432 9404 tokyo.newsroom@reuters.com))
REUTERS
da bin ich ja mal gespannt, ob dem markt diese zahlen reichen um die kursentwicklung von broadvision in den letzten tagen zu rechtfertigen....
in diesem sinne
Tuesday it and four other firms would form an equally-owned joint venture to offer business-to-business
e-commerce software and services.
The four other firms are Itochu Corp <8001.T>, a major Japanese trading house, Itochu Techno-Science Corp
<4739.T>, Itochu's information processing unit, ACCESS, an unlisted Japanese provider of non-PC software,
and H&Q Asia Pacific, a California-based investment firm.
The new firm named B-Mobile Corp, to be formed in October in Tokyo, will provide a service for
Internet-based business transactions via wireless networks such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants
(PDAs) from January 2001 in Japan, the five firms said in a joint statement.
The new company aims at annual sales of 300 million yen in the first year and 900 million yen in the second
year.
Japan's overall mobile commerce market is expected to grow to 58.6 billion yen by the year to March 2004
from an actual one billion yen in 1999/2000, according to industry estimates.
The new company plans to team up with NTT Communications Inc, a unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corp <9432.T>, on using NTT Communications' network system and data centre, they said.
By 0537 GMT, Itochu's shares were down 0.41 percent at 487 yen. Itochu Techno-Science's shares were up
0.22 percent at 18,490 yen.
((Tokyo Equities Desk +81-3 3432 9404 tokyo.newsroom@reuters.com))
REUTERS
da bin ich ja mal gespannt, ob dem markt diese zahlen reichen um die kursentwicklung von broadvision in den letzten tagen zu rechtfertigen....
in diesem sinne
