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PayPay has filed for a US listing that could value Japan’s ubiquitous payments company at more than $10bn and help fund some ...
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son reclaimed the crown as Japan’s richest person with shares of his Tokyo-listed investment conglomerate surging over 60% this year.
The secondary share investment is on top of SoftBank’s commitment to lead OpenAI’s $40 billion funding round, which values ...
SoftBank founder Son has made huge bets on AI, insisting that the giant’s future – in as little as 10 years will hinge on ...
SoftBank Group Corp. shares surged to a record after it swung to a quarterly profit, an affirmation for Masayoshi Son’s bets ...
SoftBank made a net profit of $2.9bn in its first quarter boosted by its investment in Nvidia as Masayoshi Son’s technology ...
SoftBank's total investment in OpenAI has reached $32 billion since 2024. “I’m all in on OpenAI,” Son said while acknowledging that he regretted not investing in the AI company earlier.
TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 12: SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son leaves the stage during a press conference on February 12, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has been an unstoppable force in the technology world over the last year, which included buying a chunk of Uber. As he lined up a roster of big backers for SoftBank’s ...
Masayoshi Son named his company SoftBank to illustrate the idea of “a bank of software.” Koki Nagahama/Getty Images Tech news site Recode ranked Son No.6 on Recode 100, the publication’s ...
Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, has had a topsy-turvy year or two, but the story he is eager to tell is that he is back and in the black.