Jan. 31, 2007 (China Knowledge) – NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced Tuesday that it will invest US$5 million as part of a joint investment with China's Ufida Software Co. <600588>

The Tokyo-based mobile carrier, which is Japan's largest by subscribers, said in a press release that the two companies will invest in Fidatone Mobile Technology and Service Co. to enter the corporate mobile solutions market in China.

Ufida is a developer of software products including enterprise resource planning, management software, customer relationship management, human resource, and others. As at Dec. 31, 2005, the Beijing-based company had 18 major subsidiaries with software outsourcing businesses in Japan, Europe and the U.S.