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Masayoshi Son is the $100 billion gambler who went from dirt track to tech titan — and he isn't done betting yet
Masayoshi Son's bold bets on tech defined an era. A new book asks if the SoftBank boss is a visiona…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Masayoshi Son made $72 billion betting on Jack Ma's Alibaba. Now he wants to do it again with AI.
More than two decades on from his first bet on Alibaba, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is ready to go a…
Hasan Chowdhury
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"Jack Ma and I will remain friends forever," says Masayoshi Son as Alibaba founder leaves SoftBank board
There was something more disappointing for Masayoshi Son than Softbank’s nearly $9 billion loss and…
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First he was a teacher. Then he was China's top tech titan. Now, meet Jack Ma 3.0 a high-tech farmer.
The Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma has stayed out of the limelight since angering Beijing. In the meanti…
Huileng Tan
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Masayoshi Son says China's crackdown on Alibaba is nothing different than antitrust regulations in US or UK
Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of SoftBank, and a long-time friend of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, …
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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…
Katie Canales
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Masayoshi Son is leaving his crown jewel Alibaba’s board – 15 years after he took the position
Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son has resigned from Alibaba’s board, 15 years after he took a seat on…
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Softbank's $9 billion net loss last year has a lot to do with Uber and WeWork
The Softbank Vision Fund had $75 billion invested in 88 startups but they were worth 7% less in…
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Jack Dorsey eases Twitter into life after Trump
In this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter we look at the future of Twitter, SoftBank an…
Alexei Oreskovic
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'The last person I felt this with was Jack Ma' - SoftBank's Masayoshi Son reportedly compared WeWork's Adam Neumann to Alibaba's founder
Son and Neumann's relationship began at an event called Startup India in January 2016, Fast Company…
Theron Mohamed
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Tencent's Ma Huateng replaces Jack Ma as China's richest person
Before co-founding Tencent in 1998, Pony led research and development for the internet paging …
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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma and AMD CEO Lisa Su have a new tech strategy: shoot the moon
In this week's Insider Tech newsletter we look at the astronomical deals dominating tech, as well a…
Alexei Oreskovic
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From Masayoshi Son to Warren Buffett — some of the world’s biggest billionaires have a stake in the success of Paytm IPO
Paytm is going public after ten years of operation in the Indian market. It was founded in 2010 …
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Jack Ma is stepping down from the board just as Softbank announced a record $13 billion loss
Ma is stepping down after 13 years on SoftBank's board of directors.
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has a 'type' and the founders he bets on look a lot like Adam Neumann
The growth was also the impetus for disfunction at car-leasing startup Fair. According to previous …
Megan Hernbroth
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Theron Mohamed
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Alibaba CEO Jack Ma meets with Trump, pledges to create 1 million US jobs
The meeting comes just a few weeks after Trump met with another Asian technology powerhouse, M…
Bob Bryan
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SoftBank is Nvidia's first Blackwell chips customer. Here's what they're going to be used for.
The collaboration comes amid skyrocketing demand for Nvidia chips, as companies scramble to secure …
Shubhangi Goel
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SoftBank has lost more than $14 billion by betting on WeWork
The Japanese firm, which made a huge bet on WeWork, revealed the losses in the same week that the r…
Hasan Chowdhury
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SoftBank, Naspers, and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway are cutting their iconic bets on Chinese tech stocks
Berkshire has sold about $600 million of BYD stock, SoftBank is slashing its Alibaba stake by nearl…