SOFTBANK CORP.
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UTStarcom Announces SOFTBANK TELECOM as First NetRing(TM) TN Customer [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 18 days 13 hours 11 minutes ago
...UTStarcom, Inc. announced that SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. a wholly owned subsidiary of SOFTBANK Corp., will be the first customer to commercially...executive vice president, director of SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. "We have confidence that the introduction...
Analysts wary ahead of Japanese telecom results - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 37 days 5 hours 43 minutes ago
"We expect SoftBank to be the only leading telecom carrier to report Q2 profit growth," Ikuo Matsuhashi, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, wrote in a note to clients issued Friday. SoftBank plans to release its second-quarter results on Oct. 29.
RockYou Secures $50 Million in Series D Funding From Returning Investor SoftBank [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 4 hours 18 minutes ago
...expand our relationship with SoftBank with this round of funding...receiving $17 million from SoftBank and SK Telecom Ventures in...DCM, SK Telecom Ventures and SoftBank. For more information, please...http://rockyou.com/corp/about.php Contact...
Softbank profit doubles as mobile business expands
Boston Globe, The | 23 days 23 hours 54 minutes ago
TOKYOSoftbank Corp., which runs the only Japanese mobile operator to offer the iPhone, said profit doubled in the latest quarter as its cellular business continued to expand.
InfoGin and NexM Communications Inc. Partner to Power the NTT Resonant "goo" Portal on Mobile [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 3 days 19 hours 54 minutes ago
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Softbank eyes stakes in India, China companies
Total Telecom Magazine (U.K.) | 2 days 23 hours 48 minutes ago
Japanese operator keen on mobile application, technology firms.
Softbank eyes Asia for fresh content
Japan Times, The | 2 days 9 hours 17 minutes ago
Softbank Corp., Japan's third-largest mobile phone operator, is mulling possible investments in software or mobile phone content companies in India and Southeast Asia, Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son said Thursday. "We just partner we invest 20 percent, 30 percent," Son said at a briefing at the Mobile Asia Congress industry conference in Hong Kong. "We'd like to bring social games and others into Japan" from China. The company owns stakes in the parent of China's Aliba...
Photos: E-Book Systems Launches FlipViewer(R) Xpress Creator 2.0 Digital Publishing Software [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 11 days 13 hours 11 minutes ago
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- E-Book Systems, creator of the patented Digital Flip(R) e-publishing technology, announces today the release of the FlipViewer(R) Xpress Creator 2.0, a wizard-based software that runs on PC. It enables publishers and corporations to create and publish realistic page-flipping digital publications ("FlipBooks") easily with just a few mouse clicks. The created FlipBook can then be hosted on any web server for online viewing or distributed through any ...
Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications to Merge with NEC's Mobile Terminal Unit [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 69 days 2 hours 9 minutes ago
TOKYO, September 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NEC Corporation
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Business Wire | 18 days 16 hours 6 minutes ago
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/50a784/telecommunications) has announced the addition of the "Telecommunications 2009 Fortune Global 500 Databank - Company Profiles" company profile to their offering.
Japan's Softbank to launch Google phone in spring
Reuters | 12 days 41 minutes ago
TOKYO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Softbank Corp (9984.T), Japan's No.3 wireless carrier, said it will add to its lineup its first phone using Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android operating system in the spring, following similar launches by NTT DoCoMo (9437.T) and Verizon Wireless.
Softbank's new lineup heavy on fast Wi-Fi
Japan Times, The | 11 days 8 hours 46 minutes ago
Softbank Corp. unveiled 22 new mobile phone models for its winter-spring lineup Tuesday with a special focus on Wi-Fi and a new service that uses the wireless system to access the Internet. "Today's biggest keyword is Wi-Fi. This one word," Masayoshi Son, Softbank CEO, said during a presentation in Tokyo of the new products. Eight of the 22 new phone models have built-in Wi-Fi, which enables handsets to connect to the Internet about 7.5 times faster than the 3G cellular connection, ac...
Reportlinker Adds the IMS Report Market Forecast 2009-2014 Report [Press Release]
Business Wire | 40 days 18 hours 9 minutes ago
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.
Softbank leads in new user signups for 3rd month
Forbes | 13 days 3 hours 40 minutes ago
TOKYO, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Softbank Corp, Japan's No.3 wireless carrier, outran its bigger rivals for the third straight month in October in the number of net new users it signed up thanks to demand for Apple Inc's iPhone.
Microsoft to Deliver New Generation of Windows Phones on Oct. 6 [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 81 days 20 hours 6 minutes ago
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Company Overview
| Company: | SOFTBANK CORP. |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Investment Firms |
| Website: | http://www.softbank.co.jp |
SOFTBANK's investment strategy is anything but soft. Under the leadership of founder, chairman, and CEO Masayoshi Son (sometimes referred to as the Bill Gates of Japan), the company makes investments in a variety of ventures. Its portfolio holdings span the mobile and fixed-line telecommunications, Internet commerce and content, technology services, marketing, and broadband infrastructure sectors, and more. The company also invests venture capital in Internet-related concerns in Asia and the US. Interests in SOFTBANK MOBILE, SOFTBANK TELECOM, and Yahoo Japan, along with its minority stake in Yahoo!, comprise the bedrock of SOFTBANK's holdings.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 27,958.801 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 29.5 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 1,094 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 347.5 (2008) |
| Number of Employees | 19,040 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 6.9 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | March |