Japan: OhmyNews investment

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 @ 12:04 UTC

by Luisetta Mudie

Countries:
Japan, South Korea
Topics:
Business, Internet & Telecoms, Media

OhmyNews reports that it has secured a U.S.$11 million investment from Softbank, a Tokyo-based technology and Internet investment firm, to expand its international presence with the launch of a Japanese edition later this year. The funds will also be used to develop OhmyNews' video journalism arm, writes Annie Koh from Seoul.

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    [...] Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Japan: OhmyNews investment: “OhmyNews reports that it has secured a U.S. $11 million investment from Softbank, a Tokyo-based technology and Internet investment firm, to expand its international presence with the launch of a Japanese edition later this year. The funds will also be used to develop OhmyNews’ video journalism arm, writes Annie Koh from Seoul.” [...]

    # 2006-03-2 at 15:20 pm

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