Juro Osawa

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Alibaba Buys Into Mapping Company

Juro Osawa and Paul Mozur, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 10 at 9:17 am PT

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is spending again to gain the upper hand as it competes to sell to China’s rapidly growing number of smartphone users.

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Alibaba Obtains $8 Billion Loan

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on May 2 at 9:55 am PT

Alibaba closed the loan deal on April 30 with nine banks.

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Chinese Web Firms Alibaba, Sina Form Alliance

Saabira Chaudhuri and Juro Osawa, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 29 at 9:52 am PT

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is forming a strategic alliance with Sina Corp., seeking to benefit from the social-media company’s broad user base for its Weibo microblogging service.

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Alibaba to Promote Its Mobile OS, After Fight With Google

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 15 at 3:29 pm PT

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said it would promote its own smartphone operating system through subsidies to handset makers and a one billion yuan, or roughly $160 million, funding program for app developers.

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Next to Use 3-D Printing: Your Surgeon

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 9 at 12:44 pm PT

Surgeons are finding industrial 3-D printers to be a lifesaver on the operating table, able to construct personalized copies of livers and kidneys, one ultrathin layer at a time.

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Canon Sees Profit Growth on Weaker Yen

Juro Osawa and Kana Inagaki, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 30 at 6:00 am PT

Canon Inc. said its net profit for the fourth quarter fell fractionally from a year earlier but forecast a rise in profit for 2013 as its overseas sales get a boost from the yen’s weakening.

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Asia’s Electronics Giants Jump Into Health Care

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 29 at 7:30 am PT

As Asian consumer electronics makers look beyond gadgets for new revenue opportunities, there’s one area that many are finding attractive: Medical equipment.

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Google Names New Head of Asia-Pacific

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 9 at 5:30 am PT

Google Inc. named Karim Temsamani head of the Asian-Pacific region effective immediately, in the latest executive change at the Internet giant following the departure of Marissa Mayer to rival Yahoo Inc. last year.

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Is Sony Gaining Momentum in Smartphones?

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on November 25, 2012 at 11:30 am PT

While Japan’s ailing consumer-electronics sector struggles to regain momentum, it turns out that Sony Corp. actually climbed to the No. 3 position in the global smartphone market in the third quarter. Sony, which was the No. 6 player in the same quarter a year earlier, came only behind Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., according to the latest data from research firm IDC.

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Lenovo’s Profit Rises on PC Sales

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 8, 2012 at 6:30 am PT

Chinese personal-computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. said Thursday its net profit for the three months through September rose 13 percent from a year earlier, as sales remained strong despite a slump in the overall PC industry.