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Shares of Better whose CEO fired 900 workers on a Zoom call — slumped 93% on their first day of trade
Shares in Better Home & Finance tumbled 93% in their first day of trading after combining with a SP…
Huileng Tan
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Delhivery shares edge lower after SoftBank offloads 3.8% stake for ₹954 crore
Shares of logistics provider Delhivery were down 2% in morning trade on Thursday, a day after Japan…
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A former nurse at embattled telehealth startup Cerebral said that in her experience, nurse practitioners were handing out antipsychotic medicines like 'candy'
Workers and internal documents suggest the SoftBank-backed online mental-health provider put growth…
Dominick Reuter
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SoftBank CFO's pay fell nearly 40% after the company's VC fund lost $26.2 billion, a report says
The 100 million yen paycheck for SoftBank's founder and CEO Masayoshi Son stayed roughly the same b…
Rosie Bradbury
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CloudKitchens, ghost restaurant news and updates
Discover the latest news and updates on CloudKitchens. The ghost restaurant is part of a new busine…
Meghan Morris
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Wall Street: Yet another SoftBank SPAC mess
In today's 10 Things on Wall Street: Another SoftBank SPAC implosion and Citadel welcomes its lates…
Aaron Weinman
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Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann reportedly hosted a 9 a.m. party for employees to celebrate the company going public
Neumann, who resigned as CEO in 2019, has a roughly 10% stake in the company.
Francis Agustin
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The founders of OYO and Zomato pump in money to make edtech startup Unacademy worth $3.4 billion — a ten fold jump in 18 months
The six-year old startup founded by Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh and Roman Saini, Unacademy…
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Watch Larry Page playfully kick Boston Dynamics' robotic dog before Google sold the firm to Softbank in a newly-surfaced video
Kicking or pushing is standard practice for testing in the industry but has drawn complaints of "ro…
Katie Canales
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Good news turns tech upside down as Jeff Bezos looks for friends
In this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter we look at the series of most recent shocks t…
Alexei Oreskovic
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WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann is reportedly spending $44 million on 2 Miami Beach properties, months after selling his San Francisco 'Guitar House' compound
Adam Neumann, who recently sold a Bay Area compound, is buying 50,000 square feet of land in Miami …
Kate Duffy
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Softbank-backed Paytm fast tracks IPO plan a year into the pandemic — a $3 billion fundraising could be the biggest market debut in India
Paytm, one of the leading digital payments providers in India, is eyeing a bumper ₹21,000 crore ($3…
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Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank and the 2nd-richest person in Japan, joins the growing chorus of voices calling to cancel the Tokyo Olympics
"Currently more than 80% of people want the Olympics to be postponed or canceled. On what authority…
Katie Warren
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SoftBank will cut investments in Chinese startups as it awaits more regulatory clarity
"Until the situation is clearer we want to wait and see," CEO Masayoshi Son said. "In a year or two…
Isabelle Lee
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A new WeWork documentary puts the cultish workplace on display, including tracking employees at mandatory, alcohol-soaked retreats and WeLive spaces designed to accommodate the amount of sex residents were having
WeWork lawyer Don Lewis described the company's environment as "legitimately the craziest work expe…
Allana Akhtar
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WeWork cut two-thirds of its staff as its valuation plunged $38 billion, the startup revealed in a new pitch to investors
More than 8,000 people lost their jobs in the past year and a half at WeWork, as the company trimme…
Natasha Dailey
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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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We've reviewed dozens of successful pitch decks amid healthcare's private funding boom. Here's what they all have in common.
These are Insider's biggest healthcare stories for the week ending December 10.
Leah Rosenbaum,Megan Hernbroth
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Biotech's top investors, ranked
These are Insider's biggest healthcare stories for December 9.
Leah Rosenbaum
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Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son says he and Alibaba's Jack Ma send each other drawings to keep in touch
The two businessmen have been friends for years, and Son said on Monday that they've kept tabs on e…