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Oct 7 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google plans to invest a total of 100 billion yen ($690.13 million) in Japan through 2024, its Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai told Nikkei in an interview on Friday. Google will open a data centre in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo next year — its first in Japan — which will provide faster and more stable access to Google’s services, the publication reported further. Google did not respond to a Reuters’ request for comment. ($1 = 144.9000 yen)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yahoo Japan, PayPay merge malls against Amazon, Rakuten  Nikkei Asia Source link

Yahoo Japan has announced that most of its online services will cease to be accessible in the European Economic Area and the UK as of April 6th. The company’s email, credit card, and ebook services will continue to be available, but everything else is going dark. The given reason is the cost of complying with European regulations, which would include GDPR. In a statement, Yahoo Japan says it would be difficult to provide continuous service for customers in the EEA and UK, and went… Source link

Yahoo Japan Corp. said it will allow its 8,000 workers to live and commute from anywhere in Japan, even by air, starting from April. The portal site operator will remove a requirement for coming to the office by 11 a.m. and an upper limit on one-way commuting costs of 6,500 yen ($57), the company said Wednesday. Still, its monthly commuting fee cap will remain at 150,000 yen. Photo taken in May 2021 shows a screen with an icon of Yahoo Japan Corp.’s app (top C)…. Source link

Yahoo Japan is one of the companies leading the way in the work from home revolution, telling its 8,000 employees that they can work from anywhere in the country.  The new policy takes effect April 1. The company will even fly workers into work when the job requires.  “As a result of dialogues with employees and various surveys, 90% of the employees said that their work performance did not change or improve, so Yahoo decided to liberalize the place where employees live in Japan,” Yahoo Japan… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yahoo Japan to expand remote work, pay for commutes by plane  Nikkei Asia Source link

Yahoo workers in Japan have been told that they can work from anywhere in the country rather than return to the office – and commute by plane when necessary.  Around 8,000 employees will benefit from the change, which takes effect on April 1, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. More than 90 per cent of employees are already working remotely and Yahoo President Kentaro Kawabe said their performance has held or improved at home, Japan Times reported. The new flexible working policy… Source link

Yahoo Japan is telling its 8,000 employees they can work anywhere in the country — and even be flown into work when the job requires it — bucking the trend of companies looking to return workers to offices in the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The program takes effect April 1 and allows employees to commute by plane, which wasn’t previously an option, the company said in a statement Wednesday. While Yahoo is best… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Yahoo Japan is telling its 8,000 employees they can work anywhere in the country — and even be flown into work when the job requires it — bucking the trend of companies looking to return workers to offices in the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. Most Read from Bloomberg The program takes effect April 1 and allows employees to commute by plane, which wasn’t previously an option, the company said in a statement Wednesday. While Yahoo is best known for its internet… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Most Asian stocks rose Monday after the outcome of Japan’s election bolstered expectations for fiscal stimulus and as all-time highs for U.S. shares encouraged some investor optimism. The yen weakened. Most Read from Bloomberg Equities jumped more than 2% in Japan, where Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party defied forecasts by preserving its outright majority. Stocks dipped in China amid data signaling economic weakness due to power shortages, surging… Source link