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Softbank is a Japanese telecoms and Internet company it was founded in 1981 and headquartered in Tokyo, Softbank has international operation across broadband, fixed telecoms, e-commerce, finance, media and marketing.

 Soft Bank also has a loss of 6.5 billion dollar loss from uber.

The soft bank is the largest corporation and a multinational Japanese conglomerate holding company headquarter in Tokyo. SoftBank owns stakes in many Technologies, energy and financial companies. It also runs vision funds, the world largest Technologies’ – focused venture capital fund, with over 100-dollar billion capital.

 Masayoshi Son is the founder of the company. It operates in broadband, fixed-line telecommunication, eCommerce, internet, technologies services, finance, media. Technologies services, finance services, finance, media, finance, media and marketing, semiconductor design another area. In 2000 list Forbes ranked 36 the largest public company in the world. The second-largest public company in the world.

Although SoftBank does not affiliate itself to any traditional keiretsu, it has close ties with Mizuho Financial Group who is the mail leader.

If we talk about the history it was founded in September 1981 as a Softbank corps by the – 24- year old Masashi Son as software distributor.

Also, at 1994 the company went Public and valued a 3 billion dollar. Also, it was agreed to purchase Us based Ziff Davis publishing. If we Talk about the share: in 2010 the best bank share gets nacres about the 30 per cent in July. As per the data from the internet sources.

In October 2013,

There is tremendous Soft bank, they acquired 51 per cent stakes in Supercell for a reported of 2.1 billion dollars. It was not stopped, Later on, 25 Oct 2014, $627 million in snap dell with 30 per cent stake in the company and October 2014, and a 100-dollar million investment in housing .com, with 30 per cent stake in the company in November 2014.

 In June 2016, Nikesh Arora stepped down as president of SoftBank amidst pressure from investors.  

On 18 May 2017,

 It was reported that Softbank had completed its single largest investment in India to date, investing $1.4 billion in Paytm. At the time, Softbank was also working on a takeover of Flipkart’s Snapdeal. On 10 August 2017, Softbank invested $2.5 billion into Flipkart.

On 8 June 2017, Alphabet Inc. announced the sale of Boston Dynamics (robotics companies whose products include Big Dog) to SoftBank Group for an undisclosed sum. Also, in August 2017, Soft bank finalised a 4.4 billion investment in we work. And on October 2017, Soft bank group CEO Masayoshi Son Announced the group would collaborate with Saudi Arabia to develop Neom, the high – tech business and industrials city of the Saudi Kingdom. And on 14 January 2018 soft bank vision fund announced to invest 560 dollars million in the German used car sales portal Auto 1.

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 On 1 March 2018, Softbank’s Vision Fund led a $535 million investment in Door Dash.

 In May 2018, CEO Masayoshi Son revealed during an earnings presentation that Walmart had reached a deal to buy Flipkart.

 On 27 September 2018, Softbank announced an investment of $400 Million in Home-Selling Start-ups Open door.

 In September 2018, Saudi government officials announced that a planned $200 billion project with SoftBank Group to build the world’s biggest solar-power-generation project would-be put-on hold.

 In November 2018, SoftBank announced it will make an IPO with the cost of share $13.22 (which is 1,500 yen). The offer of the shares was going to last for a month. Regarding the number of shares, the total value of SoftBank will reach $21.15 billion, which would be the second-largest IPO ever mad.

 I we talk about the business units in Softbank corporation it has invested units in different field which are listed below.

 T-Mobile US has a 24%, (from in the internet sources)

Alibaba 29.5%,

yahoo Japan has 48.17%,

Brightstar 87.1%,

Uber 15%,

Didi Chuxiong 20%,

Ola 30%,

Renner 42.9%

 Immobile 45%,

Hike 25.8% ,

Snapdeal 30%,

Fanatics 22%,

Improbable Worlds 50%,

Paytm 20%,

OYO 42%,

Ping an Insurance 7.41%,

Slack Technologies 5%,

 WeWork 80%,

Zhong An Online P&C Insurance 5%,

Compass 22%,

AUTO1 Group 20%,

Wag 45%,

Katerra 28%,

Cruise Automation 19.6%,

Park Jockey.

 Tikopia (Indonesia), and many more companies.

 J-PHONE

It is also increasing continuously new services and enhancement such as Skywalkers for Pac, Sky Melody ringtone download, the famous shad – Mail picture mail introduced based on camera phones developed by Sharpe, the mobile multimedia data services J sky modelled After NTT Docomo I mode and Advanced Jana services Based on Jack, Modelled after Nott.

 Grew steadily for a decade by continuously introducing new services and enhancements such as Skywalkers for PDC, Sky Melody ringtone download, the famous Sha-Mail picture mail introduced based on camera phones developed by SHARP, the mobile multimedia data service J-Sky modelled after NTT DoCoMo’s I-mode, and advanced Java services based on JSCL, modelled after NTT DoCoMo’s Dojra based I – apples.

 Vodafone

In October 2001, the British mobile phone group Vodafone increased its share to 66.7% of Japan Telecom and 69.7% of J-Phone. On 1 October 2003, the name of the company and the service brand was officially changed to Vodafone, with the division called Vodafone K.K. or Vodafone Japan. The growth and success of the company during this period is due in large part to then-president Bill Morrow.

 SoftBank Mobile

 Television broadcast on a 2007 Sharp phone on SoftBank

On 17 March 2006, Vodafone Group announced it had agreed to sell its holding of Vodafone Japan (Vodafone K.K.) to SoftBank for about 1.75 trillion Japanese yen (about US$15.1 billion).

On 14 April 2006, SoftBank and Vodafone K. K. jointly announced, that the name of the company will be changed to a “new, easy-to-understand and familiar” company name and brand. It was announced in a press conference on 18 May 2006, that the new name would be “SoftBank Mobile Corp.”, effective 1 October 2006. SoftBank started the rebranding around 14 June 2006.

 On 4 June 2008, SoftBank Mobile announced a partnership with Apple and brought the iPhone (3G) to Japan later in 2008.  SoftBank Mobile was the only official carrier of the iPhone in Japan until the release of iPhone 4S in 2011 when it became available on au by KDDI as well.

Technology

SoftBank Corp.’s mobile network operates a W-CDMA (UMTS 3G) network (“SoftBank 3G”). SoftBank’s 3G network is compatible with UMTS and supports transparent global roaming for existing UMTS subscribers from other countries. SoftBank 4G uses TD-LTE / LTE. SoftBank offers 4G speeds of more than 110 Mbit/s. SoftBank Wi-Fi Spots are available almost everywhere in Japan.

Vision fund investments of the soft bank:

 SoftBank Group dates back to 1981. It was originally a computer software distributor —

a bank of software, rather than a real bank, as people who work there, must get sick of explaining. Today it’s mostly known for its Vision Fund, roughly $100 billion that it invests mostly in Silicon Valley.

 Tokyo

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

Japanese tech giant SoftBank has billions of dollars at its disposal to fund and acquire high-profile companies.

The massive corporation — led by Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man — makes investments through the SoftBank Group and its $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund.

 SoftBank’s founder and CEO are Masayoshi Son. Son is the third-richest person in Japan after Uniqlo founder Tadashi Yanai and Keyence founder Akamatsu Takaki.

He owns $45 million worth of real estate in Tokyo as well as a $117.5 million estate in Silicon Valley. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

 Japanese tech giant SoftBank has billions of dollars at its disposal to fund and acquire high-profile companies.

The massive corporation — led by Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man — makes investments through the SoftBank Group and its $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund.

SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund owns 16.3 per cent of the world’s biggest ride-hailing company, according to Uber’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission on Thursday.

Uber was last valued at $76 billion on the private markets when Toyota Motor Corp. invested in 2018.

SoftBank Group shares have tumbled about 30% since their peak in July, suffering the consequences of WeWork’s disastrous attempt to go public and its subsequent financial rescue by SoftBank, which already had been the office-sharing company’s largest investor.

 SoftBank Group Corp. started in 1981 as a distributor of computer software. As software is called “soft” in Japanese, the name “SoftBank” literally means “a bank of software.

” We chose the word “bank” based on our grand aspiration to be a key source of infrastructure for the information society.

SoftBank bought 80% of Sprint for $22 billion.

1. Softbank Group. Softbank owns 29.4% of Alibaba and is its largest shareholder.

 Jack ma is the executive chairman of the Alibaba.

BEIJING — Chinese e-commerce tycoon Jack Ma has surrendered his ownership of entities that hold Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s business licenses in China. relinquished his ownership in Alibaba’s main “variable interest entities,” Alibaba confirmed Monday.

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