Mercury Center Introduces Asia Tech Update

Posted on April 9, 1998

To increase its coverage of the technology industry in a region that Silicon Valley companies watch closely, Mercury Center, the award-winning online edition of the San Jose Mercury News, today introduced Asia Tech Update. Featuring daily technology news from throughout the Pacific Rim, Asia Tech Update will draw on a new partnership between Mercury Center and Nikkei BP BizTech, Inc., a subsidiary of Japan's leading technology and business publisher.

"Our mission is to serve the U.S. and Asia communities as an information hub putting together an increasing amount of Asia IT and business information," said Yasuo Naito, the president and publisher of Nikkei BP BizTech, Inc. "We believe that Nikkei BP AsiaBizTech news -- compiled from Nikkei BP group's more than 50 publications including English-language Nikkei Electronics Asia -- will become your best tool to review what is going on in the technology world of Japan and the rest of Asia. Under our new partnership, we are truly happy to be able to offer our Asian information to Silicon Valley's high-tech community."

The San Jose Mercury News, known internationally as the newspaper of Silicon Valley, has received wide recognition for its award-winning journalism, particularly for its high technology news and analysis. The Mercury News has won two Pulitzer Prizes and maintains 13 bureau offices, including the first permanent post-war American bureau in Vietnam. It offers a range of products beyond the flagship newspaper, including the Mercury News' pioneering online edition, Mercury Center, and the Spanish-language weekly Nuevo Mundo.