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SoftBank

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SoftBank is a Japanese telecommunications and media corporation, headquartered in Tokyo and founded in 1981 by Masayoshi Son. With a market capitalization of around $20 billion, SoftBank is one of the biggest Internet-related companies in Asia.

SoftBank operates in various fields such as broadband infrastructure, e-commerce, Internet services, fixed-line telecommunications, mobile phone and web business, financial services and many more.

The company took over mobile phone operations from Vodafone Japan in 2006 and is currently No. 3 among the main three Japanese mobile phone carriers (behind NTT docomo and KDDI au).

Softbank is also the top shareholder of Yahoo Japan. The company partnered up with Apple in June 2008 and introduced Apple’s iPhone in the Japanese market on July 11, 2008.

SoftBank makes investments through Softbank Capital, the companies investing branch.

Recent Milestones

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  SoftBank acquired Sprint Nextel. (10/18/12)
  Posted 10/18/12 at 8:17pm via theverge.com
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  SoftBank acquired eAccess. (10/2/12)
  Posted 10/2/12 at 12:01am via techcrunch.com
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  SoftBank invested in Openet. (6/13/12)
  Posted 6/13/12 at 3:15am via techcrunch.com
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  SoftBank invested in Kingfish Labs. (3/26/12)
  Posted 3/21/12 at 12:38pm via businessinsider.com
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  SoftBank invested in Visual Revenue. (1/26/12)
  Posted 1/26/12 at 10:09am via visualrevenue.com
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  SoftBank invested in InMobi. (9/15/11)
  Posted 9/15/11 at 2:19am via techcrunch.com
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  SoftBank invested in Yahoo!. (11/30/95)
  Posted 8/1/11 at 12:36pm via cbronline.com
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  SoftBank added Yun Ma as Director.
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:23am
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  SoftBank added Sunil Bharti Mittal as External Director.
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:23am
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  SoftBank added Tadashi Yanai as External Director.
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:23am
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  SoftBank added Mitsuo Sano as Audit & Supervisory Board Member.
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:23am
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  SoftBank added Kazuhiko Kasai as Director.
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:23am
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  SoftBank added Ken Miyauchi as Representative Director, Executive Vice President.
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:23am
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  SoftBank added Masayoshi Son as Founder and CEO.
  Posted 7/29/10 at 9:13am
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  SoftBank added Soichiro Uno as External Audit & Supervisory Board Member.
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:23am
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  SoftBank added Kouichi Shibayama as Independent Officer.
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:23am

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1. SoftBank buys Sprint: everything you need to know about the $20.1 billion acquisition (theverge.com) [edit]
2. Japan’s Third Largest Carrier, Softbank, To Acquire Fourth Placed eAccess In Share Swap Worth $2.6BN (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. One Step Shy Of An IPO, Telco Friend Openet Picks Up $21M Series D Led By Japan’s NS Solutions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Kingfish Labs Raises $500,000 To Turn Facebook Profiles Into Dating Profiles And Mutual Friends Into Matchmakers (businessinsider.com) [edit]
5. Investing $1.7M into the Data Driven Newsroom (visualrevenue.com) [edit]
6. Softbank Pumps $200 Million Into Mobile Ad Network Company InMobi (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. SOFTBANK JOINS REUTERS IN YAHOO ROUND OF FUNDING (cbronline.com) []