TNB Tech Minute: Daimler Truck’s Japan Unit And Foxconn to Set Up Electric Bus Maker
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:38.8 | Foxconn and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Buzz have agreed to set up a bus company in the second |
| 0:43.7 | half of this year to develop and sell electric buses in Japan and abroad. Fuso is Daimler |
| 0:49.6 | Truck Holdings Japan Unit. The company said the collaboration will combine Fuso's expertise and design, |
| 0:55.7 | development, and manufacturing of buses with Foxcon's Zero Mission Vehicle Technology and Global Network. |
| 1:02.2 | The establishment of the new company is subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals. |
| 1:07.3 | Foxcon, which is best known for assembling Apple's iPhones, has been diversifying its business lines in recent years. |
| 1:14.4 | Ubisoft Entertainment shares plunged over 30% in Paris after the Assassin's Creedmaker announced a major structural overhaul, game discontinuations, and revised financial targets. |
| 1:27.1 | As we told you yesterday, the French |
| 1:28.7 | video game group said it would set up a new structure operating in April, centered on five |
| 1:33.6 | creative houses. Ubisoft lowered its fiscal 2026 net bookings guidance to 1.5 billion euros |
| 1:40.5 | and expects a 1 billion euro operating loss. And Elon Musk is a surprise late addition to the |
| 1:48.1 | World Economic Forum agenda. He's set to appear today at 10.30 a.m. Eastern Time on stage, |
| 1:54.3 | interviewed by W.E.F. Chair and BlackRock boss Larry Fink. Musk has been a major critic of |
| 2:00.3 | European politics and a supporter of right-wing movements |
| 2:03.6 | in the region. |
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