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SoftBank's investment strategy is under fire amid WeWork's bungled IPO. Here's who is in charge at the world's largest tech investor.
Originally a banker, Matsui helped oversee SoftBank's acquisitions of companies, including Vodafone Japan and Arm Holdings. The Tokyo-based investor obtained his undergraduate degree from Keio ...
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SoftBank Group Leveraged to AI through Arm, Starlink and SoftBank Open AI Japan JV
The purchase of the SoftBank domestic mobile business from Vodafone has also been a success turning a JPY 1.8 trillion investment into a business worth over JPY 9 trillion at the end of March 2020.
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SoftBank Mobile Growth Recovering, With AI Spending To Come
SoftBank purchased the Japanese mobile business from Vodafone in 2006 and negotiated exclusive access in Japan to the iPhone which was launched in mid-2008. As shown in Exhibit 2, this drove ...
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SoftBank in talks to borrow $16 billion to fund AI, The Information reports
(Reuters) - SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son plans to borrow $16 billion to invest in AI, the company's executives told banks last week, The Information tech news website reported on Saturday ...