In the morning today December 1, Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB)’s temporary executive committee approved it, then afternoon, owners meeting also approved the deal that the original owner of Yokohama Bay Stars TBS sells the team to DeNA, an IT company who runs a social game networking service Mobage, Sports Nippon reported [J].

NHK reported [J] that there was only one team against DeNA’s entering to the leagues in the morning committee, which is likely Rakuten, another web company.

[Update] DeNA’s release [J] and its English translation provided by DeNA,

DeNA Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Nippon Professional
Baseball Organization (NPB) today officially approved DeNA’s planned
acquisition of a 66.92% stake in Yokohama BayStars Baseball Club,
Inc., which owns Yokohama

BayStars professional baseball team. DeNA plans to make the
acquisition on December 2.

See Also:

Asiajin » Mobage Company DeNA Rumored To Buy A Pro Baseball Team, PR Denied

Asiajin » News Around Mobage Getting Bay-Stars Baseball Team

Asiajin » Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars – DeNA(Mobage) Agrees To Purchase Pro Baseball Team

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Nikkei BP’s scoop [J] on Docomo agreeing with Apple to sell the next generation iPad/iPhone in 2012 (Mac Rumors, Macgasm and many other reported) was officially denied by NTT Docomo [J].

Nikkei BP had reported KDDI joining iPhone5 sales, which was mostly correct without iPhone’s version, and that time, KDDI au also denied the story first. However, this time Docomo states that there are even no negotiation with Apple.

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