SoftBank Group Corp.

SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Tokyo.

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Flipkart Ups Its Offer For Snapdeal
Flipkart Ups Its Offer For Snapdeal
July 19, 2017  |  Retail

Flipkart, the Indian eCommerce company moved to raise its offer of to up to $950 million for Snapdeal, boosting the chances of the deal going...

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Grab Poised To Raise $2B In Funding
Grab Poised To Raise $2B In Funding
July 17, 2017  |  Ridesharing

Grab Taxi Holdings, the Singapore ride-hailing company and Uber Technologies’ largest rival in Southeast Asia, is in the processing of raising $2 billion in venture...

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Uber Investors Looking To Sell Shares?
Uber Investors Looking To Sell Shares?
July 17, 2017  |  Ridesharing

Uber Technologies’ venture capitalists and the company’s board may be gearing up for a share sale to SoftBank Group and others, at the urging of...

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Snapdeal Holds Out For A Better Offer On Flipkart Takeover
Snapdeal Holds Out For A Better Offer On Flipkart Takeover
July 06, 2017  |  Retail

India’s second- and third-largest eCommerce firms, Flipkart and Snapdeal, have been in talks for months about a possible alliance to keep ahead of Amazon, but...

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Softbank Buys Robotics Company Boston Dynamics From Google
Softbank Buys Robotics Company Boston Dynamics From Google
June 12, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications company, announced late last week a subsidiary of SoftBank has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics...

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Paytm Gets $1.4B From Softbank
Paytm Gets $1.4B From Softbank
May 19, 2017  |  Investments

Paytm, the digital payments startup headquartered in India, has raised $1.4 billion in funding from Softbank Group. According to report in Bloomberg, the latest funding is the...

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Softbank Debuts New Solution To Easily Program Pepper The Robot
Softbank Debuts New Solution To Easily Program Pepper The Robot
May 02, 2017  |  Innovation

Softbank has debuted Promoter, a browser-based solution that lets anyone customize Pepper the robot’s movements. According to TechCrunch, the Promoter application combines choosing between responses...

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Paytm Negotiating $1.2 — $1.5B Funding Round With SoftBank
Paytm Negotiating $1.2 — $1.5B Funding Round With SoftBank
April 19, 2017  |  International

Indian digital payments firm Paytm is reportedly in talks with Japan’s SoftBank in the hopes of securing $1.2 to $1.5 billion in cash. If the...

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Hyperwallet Partners Up With SoftBank for Asia-Pacific Region Expansion
Hyperwallet Partners Up With SoftBank for Asia-Pacific Region Expansion
April 12, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Small businesses and freelancers just got a boost in the Asia-Pacific region. Global payouts provider Hyperwallet just announced its partnership with Japan-based SoftBank Payment Service...

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