Home robots company Neato Robotics has now expanded global distribution to Japan, forming a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary. The company will be selling the Botvac...

Udacity has closed a financing round of $35 million. The investment was led by Drive Capital. Other participants in the round include Bertelsmann in Germany, Recruit in Japan,...

Digital publishing and content discovery platform Issuu has raised $10 million in series B funding from the KDDI open innovation fund, one of Japan’s largest telecom operators, and Sunstone Capital of Denmark (a current Issuu investor). The company has secured $21.5 million in funding since its founding in 2006. Issuu is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

IBM researchers have demonstrated a record of 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch in areal data density on low-cost linear magnetic particulate...

Hulu is selling off its business in Japan to Nippon TV. The transaction, which is subject to certain regulatory conditions, is expected to close...