SoftBank Group Corp.

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

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IPOs Take Top Of Mind For Tech Unicorns
IPOs Take Top Of Mind For Tech Unicorns
April 07, 2017  |  IPO

IPOs may be back for tech and for unicorns. As of this writing on Friday (April 7), Okta looked poised to make gains out of...

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Softbank Walks Away From Investment In Smartphone Startup Due In Part To Apple
Softbank Walks Away From Investment In Smartphone Startup Due In Part To Apple
March 21, 2017  |  Apple

Softbank, the Japanese bank, has reportedly given up on a $100 million investment in a smartphone startup in part because of Softbank’s growing relationship with...

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SoftBank CEO Believes Robots Will Outsmart, Outnumber Humans In 30 Years
SoftBank CEO Believes Robots Will Outsmart, Outnumber Humans In 30 Years
February 28, 2017  |  Innovation

Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank Group Corp., believes that within 30 years, artificial intelligence will be smarter than the human brain. The Wall Street Journal reports that...

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SoFi Looks For $500M To Expand Lending Services
SoFi Looks For $500M To Expand Lending Services
February 17, 2017  |  Investments

Social Finance, or SoFi for short, is nearing an agreement to raise as much as $500 million in a new venture capital funding round, Bloomberg...

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SoftBank Buys Fortress Investment Group For $3.3B In Cash
SoftBank Buys Fortress Investment Group For $3.3B In Cash
February 16, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

SoftBank of Japan announced earlier this week that is acquiring Fortress Investment Group in an all-cash deal valued at around $3.3 billion. In a press release,...

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$100B SoftBank Fund Gearing Up For Launch
$100B SoftBank Fund Gearing Up For Launch
January 11, 2017  |  Investments

Just a few weeks after the election of Donald Trump to the United States presidency, Masayoshi Son, head of SoftBank of Japan, said his firm...

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Pepper The Sales Robot A Hit For SoftBank
Pepper The Sales Robot A Hit For SoftBank
January 05, 2017  |  Merchant Innovation

Americans are not terribly familiar with Pepper — the robot helper — today, but SoftBank is determined that it will soon conquer U.S. shores with its automated...

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Apple Confirms A $1 Billion Investment In SoftBank Tech Fund
Apple Confirms A $1 Billion Investment In SoftBank Tech Fund
January 05, 2017  |  Investments

Apple confirmed on Wednesday (Jan. 4) that it will invest $1 billion in SoftBank’s new $100 billion technology fund. According to a report by The Wall...

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Softbank Lets Trump Take Job Creation Credit
Softbank Lets Trump Take Job Creation Credit
December 30, 2016  |  Retail

Sprint and internet provider OneWeb may have already planned to create a combined 8,000 jobs in the U.S., but Sprint’s parent and OneWeb investor Softbank...

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