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Satoru Iwata: The Life of the Modern Age Face of Nintendo

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Satoru Iwata the CEO of Nintendo recently passed away. Iwata was 55 years old and died after losing the battle with cancer of the bile duct. In his 13 years as the CEO of one of the world’s biggest...

Iwata Reiterates Mystery Pledge of Nintendo Expanding Beyond Video Games

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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata left a lot of heads spinning when he said in January that Nintendo would “expand into a new business area” over the next ten years with products that increase “quality...

Nintendo CEO on $1.2B Stock Buyback: ‘Wii U Isn’t In Good Shape

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After another disappointing holiday season and continuing struggles to market its Wii U home video game console, Nintendo plans to buy back approximately 10 million shares, or 7.8% of its outsanding...

Nintendo’s work progress on the “mini” games for Android phones

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The Wii U gaming console by Nintendo hasn’t left the company in a favorable position and right now it is certainly coping with the unsuccessful result of the price cut. Ever since then the company...

Nintendo Sells 300,000 More Wii U Consoles But its Sales Still Hurting Profits

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Nintendo has announced its consolidated results of past six months ended September 30, 2013. These results reveals a downwards trend in all areas especially in the net income. The net income of six...

Former Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi Dies at 85

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Hiroshi Yamauchi is a big name in Japanese business industry. In fact, he was the man behind Nintendo's success. He served the firm for 53 years as its President.He is also the second-largest...

Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man who built Nintendo, dies aged 85

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The man who took Nintendo from card games to video games, Hiroshi Yamauchi, diesHiroshi Yamauchi was Nintendo's third and arguably most important president. When he took the reins from his grandfather in 1949, the Japanese company specialized in the manufacture of playing cards for its home market -- first Japanese-style cards and then, under Yamauchi's guidance, Western-style ones too. By the time he handed over control to Satoru Iwata 53 years later, he'd overseen the creation of all Nintendo's game consoles up to the GameCube and become one of Japan's richest men -- in other words, not a bad innings for a man who passed away today at the ripe old age of 85.

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Source: Hiroko Tabuchi (Twitter), Nikkei (Japanese)