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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (2162)	10/31/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: Jonas1	Respond to of 6018

Competition for Softbank Before it was easy. Everyone was sleeping. Now everyone is waking up. From Bloomberg: NTT Software Forms E-Commerce Venture Using Digital TV Program NTT Software Corp., an affiliate of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., will form a joint venture to produce a television shopping channel with Toppan Printing Co. and Kenwood Corp., the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported without citing sources. The venture will be 43 percent owned by NTT Software, 43 percent by Toppan and 14 percent by Kenwood and will offer the program via digital satellite from April 2000. Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd. will help the venture with computer technology, the report said. (Nihon Keizai, p.7) (NTT Software: 9613 JP CN; Toppan: 7911 JP CN; Kenwood: 6765 JP CN)