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SoftBank's India investments might jump the $10 billion mark in the coming decade
"We have already invested $2 billion and we are interested in investing more," he said. "India has …
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Softbank will invest $100 million to make Miami a new tech hub
Softbank's COO says the Florida city has the right quality of life and tax structure to support a b…
Fatma Khaled
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The WeWork fiasco might cost SoftBank a $2.8 billion loan from Japan's biggest banks
Because of the performance of both WeWork and to a lesser extent Uber, investors at the banks are g…
Yusuf Khan
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'Nasdaq whale' SoftBank is said to have scored a $4 billion gain by betting big on tech stocks
The tech conglomerate bought about $4 billion of options that exposed it to $30 billion of assets, …
Theron Mohamed
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Softbank chief says that those who don't adopt AI are 'goldfish' who will be 'left behind'
The Softbank founder believes that AI will surpass all human knowledge by 2030.
Tom Carter
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20 years before WeWork, SoftBank raised a massive fund and plowed money into 14 startups. 7 collapsed in the aftermath of the dotcom meltdown and the fund returned pennies on the dollar.
The plan then, as it has been with the Vision Fund, was to raise similarly-sized funds every year o…
Bani Sapra,Dakin Campbell
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With its SoftBank deal, Uber may have invited a tiger into the hen house
More importantly, under new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber is making parts of Asia into a model of the…
Julie Bort
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One of SoftBank Vision Fund's 12 managing partners is leaving the company
SoftBank's first Vision Fund backed some of the biggest names in tech, including Uber, WeWork, and …
Bani Sapra
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SoftBank's founder compared himself to Jesus and Yoda. His tech fund lost a record $32 billion this year.
SoftBank was once described as a "spaceship." Economic turmoil has brought it crashing to Earth.
Hasan Chowdhury
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Read the email WeWork's co-CEOs sent to the troops after SoftBank brought in a new chairman to salvage the company
With this agreement, Marcelo Claure, SoftBank's COO, has been elected Executive Chairman of the WeW…
Julie Bort
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SoftBank pumps in Rs 1,675 crore in Ola
SoftBank subsidiary SIMI Pacific Pte picked 12,97,945 shares valued at Rs 10 at a premium of Rs …
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Looks like Masayoshi Son's plan to go all in on AI is starting to pay off for SoftBank
SoftBank posted a quarterly profit of about $1.5 billion, driven by its big bet on the chip designe…
Hasan Chowdhury
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SoftBank is reportedly considering selling the trailblazing chip design company Arm Holdings — or taking it public
Arm Holdings, which scored a big win after Apple said it will use its design for Mac computers, cou…
Benjamin Pimentel
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Benchmark may have found a new way to ban Travis Kalanick from Uber
Softbank also wants up to two board seats as part of its investment. It's not clear if this would a…
Julie Bort
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SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 just made its first bet on a buzzy US pharmacy startup. The CEO of Alto told us how he plans to use the fresh $250 million.
SoftBank's Vision Fund is known for pouring hundreds of millions into growing companies like WeWork…
Lydia Ramsey
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Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just became an actual billionaire with $1.4 billion in cash, and he plans to start giving it away
Kalanick was forced to resign from the CEO role in June after a series of scandals rocked the compa…
Julie Bort
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SoftBank Is On The Verge Of Acquiring T-Mobile
SoftBank's shares have rallied in recent weeks to their highest since the dot-com bubble burst more…
Maki Shiraki and Nobuhiro Kub…
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Some WeWork employees say they're outraged by the terms of SoftBank's bailout - especially after learning Adam Neumann will walk away with a $1.7 billion package
By late morning, insiders told us that they had yet to receive any communications about the deal fr…