Nikkei invested the cash as part of a partnership agreement based around a real-time data feature recently introduced by NTT Docomo-backed Evernote.

Media company Nikkei invested $20m in US-based workplace data technology developer Evernote yesterday as part of a partnership centred on Evernote’s newly introduced Context feature.

Context is a feature for Evernote that displays information relevant to whatever the user is working on at the time. Nikkei will provide editorial content to Context through the agreement from the start of 2015.

Tsuneo Kita, Nikkei’s chief executive, said: “We believe Nikkei and Evernote share similar missions – to enable knowledge workers to…