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interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank" title="SoftBank – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="SoftBank" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%A7" title="סופטבנק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סופטבנק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank" title="SoftBank – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="SoftBank" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group" title="SoftBank Group – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="SoftBank Group" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank" title="SoftBank – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="SoftBank" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97" title="ソフトバンクグループ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ソフトバンクグループ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a 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43 years ago (1981-09-03)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Masayoshi_Son" title="Masayoshi Son">Masayoshi Son</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">Tokyo PortCity Takeshiba, <div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Minato,_Tokyo" title="Minato, Tokyo">Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">Japan</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent">Masayoshi Son (Chairman and CEO)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Investment" title="Investment">Investment</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications" title="Telecommunications">Telecommunications</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Internet_service" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet service">Internet service</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Internet_of_Things" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet of Things">Internet of Things</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence" class="mw-redirect" title="Artificial Intelligence">Artificial Intelligence</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Robotics" title="Robotics">Robotics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/E-commerce" title="E-commerce">E-commerce</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> <a href="/wiki/Japanese_yen" title="Japanese yen">¥</a>6.76 trillion (2023)<a href="#cite_note-Financial_Report-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 65,352 (2023)<a href="#cite_note-Annual_Report-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiaries</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>SoftBank Group Capital Limited</li> <li>SB Pan Pacific Corporation</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba Group</a>(14.2%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arm_Holdings" title="Arm Holdings">Arm Holdings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fukuoka_SoftBank_Hawks" title="Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks">Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks</a></li> <li>SB Investment Advisers (UK)</li> <li>SB Global Advisers</li> <li>SB Energy</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_System_Number" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous System Number">ASN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bgp.tools/as/17676">17676</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://group.softbank">group.softbank</a></td></tr></tbody></table> SoftBank Group Corp. (ソフトバンクグループ株式会社, SofutoBanku Gurūpu <a href="/wiki/Kabushiki_gaisha" title="Kabushiki gaisha">Kabushiki gaisha</a>) is a Japanese multinational <a href="/wiki/Investment_company" title="Investment company">investment holding company</a> headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Minato,_Tokyo" title="Minato, Tokyo">Minato, Tokyo, Japan</a> which focuses on <a href="/wiki/Investment_management" title="Investment management">investment management</a>.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> The group primarily invests in companies operating in <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a> that offer goods and services to customers in a multitude of markets and industries ranging from the internet to automation.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> With over $100 billion in capital at its onset, SoftBank's <a href="/wiki/SoftBank_Vision_Fund" title="SoftBank Vision Fund">Vision Fund</a> is the world's largest technology-focused venture capital fund. Fund investors included <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund" title="Sovereign wealth fund">sovereign wealth funds</a> from countries in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The company is known for the leadership of its controversial<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> founder and largest shareholder <a href="/wiki/Masayoshi_Son" title="Masayoshi Son">Masayoshi Son</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Its investee companies, subsidiaries and divisions, including several unprofitable <a href="/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)" title="Unicorn (finance)">unicorns</a>,<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> operate in robotics, artificial intelligence, software, logistics, transportation, biotechnology, <a href="/wiki/Robotic_process_automation" title="Robotic process automation">robotic process automation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Property_technology" title="Property technology">proptech</a>, real estate, hospitality, <a href="/wiki/Broadband" title="Broadband">broadband</a>, fixed-line telecommunications, <a href="/wiki/E-commerce" title="E-commerce">e-commerce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">information technology</a>, finance, media and marketing, and other areas.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Among its most internationally recognizable current stockholdings are stakes in <a href="/wiki/Arm_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arm (company)">Arm</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> (semiconductors), <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> (e-commerce), <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Rooms" title="Oyo Rooms">OYO Rooms</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> (hospitality), <a href="/wiki/WeWork" title="WeWork">WeWork</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> (coworking) and <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom" title="Deutsche Telekom">Deutsche Telekom</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> (telecommunications). SoftBank Corporation, its spun-out affiliate and former flagship business, is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators_of_the_Asia_Pacific_region#Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of mobile network operators of the Asia Pacific region">third-largest wireless carrier in Japan</a>, with 45.621 million subscribers as of March 2021.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> SoftBank was ranked in the 2017 <a href="/wiki/Forbes_Global_2000" title="Forbes Global 2000">Forbes Global 2000</a> list as the 36th largest public company in the world<a href="#cite_note-Forbes2000-24">[24]</a> and the second-largest publicly traded company in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> after <a href="/wiki/Toyota" title="Toyota">Toyota</a>.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> The logo of SoftBank is based on the flag of the <a href="/wiki/Kaientai" title="Kaientai">Kaientai</a>, a naval trading company founded in 1865, near the end of the <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Tokugawa shogunate</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Sakamoto_Ry%C5%8Dma" title="Sakamoto Ryōma">Sakamoto Ryōma</a>.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Although SoftBank does not affiliate itself to any traditional <a href="/wiki/Keiretsu" title="Keiretsu">keiretsu</a>, it has close ties with <a href="/wiki/Mizuho_Financial_Group" title="Mizuho Financial Group">Mizuho Financial Group</a>, its primary lender.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding_and_early_years">Founding and early years</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Founding and early years">edit</a>]</div> SoftBank was founded in September 1981 as SOFTBANK Corp by then-24-year-old <a href="/wiki/Masayoshi_Son" title="Masayoshi Son">Masayoshi Son</a>, initially as a software distributor. The company entered the publishing business in May 1982 with the launches of the Oh! PC and Oh! MZ magazines, about <a href="/wiki/NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sharp_Corporation" title="Sharp Corporation">Sharp</a> computers respectively.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> Oh!PC had a circulation of 140,000 copies by 1989.<a href="#cite_note-technobuffalo.com-29">[29]</a> It would go on to become Japan's largest publisher of computer and technology magazines and trade shows. In 1994, the company went <a href="/wiki/Public" title="Public">public</a>, valued at $3 billion.<a href="#cite_note-technobuffalo.com-29">[29]</a> In September 1995, SoftBank agreed to purchase US-based <a href="/wiki/Ziff_Davis" title="Ziff Davis">Ziff Davis</a> publishing for $2.1 billion.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1995–2009_expansion">1995–2009 expansion</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1995–2009 expansion">edit</a>]</div> In the 1990s, Son made large investments in <a href="/wiki/Internet_services" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet services">Internet services</a> and the so-called <a href="/wiki/New_economy" title="New economy">new economy</a> in general. SoftBank bought <a href="/wiki/COMDEX" title="COMDEX">COMDEX</a> from The Interface Group on 1 April 1995 for $800 million and ZDI on 29 February 1996.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> SoftBank sold COMDEX to Key3Media, a spin-off of <a href="/wiki/Ziff_Davis" title="Ziff Davis">Ziff Davis</a>, in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> In 1996, SoftBank formed a <a href="/wiki/Joint_venture" title="Joint venture">joint venture</a> with American internet company <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a>, creating <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Japan">Yahoo! Japan</a> (now <a href="/wiki/LY_Corporation" title="LY Corporation">LY Corporation</a>), which would become a dominant site in the country.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> In another highly publicized investment, SoftBank bought 80% of memory manufacturers <a href="/wiki/Kingston_Technology" title="Kingston Technology">Kingston Technology</a> in 1996. When the owners-founders (John Tu and David Sun) announced plans to distribute $100,000,000 of the $1.5B windfall to Kingston employees, it created a very high-profile media stir that lasted well through the 1996 Christmas season; it was on all US networks, as well as international media. A few years later, in 1999, after the market for memory softened substantially, SoftBank sold the company back at a loss to the original owners for about a third of the original price.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> In October 1999, SoftBank became a <a href="/wiki/Holding_company" title="Holding company">holding company</a>.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> In 2000, SoftBank made its most successful investment – $20 million to a then-fledgling Chinese Internet venture called <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba</a>.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> This investment turned into $60 billion when Alibaba went public in September 2014.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> In February 2000, SoftBank Ventures Asia was founded under the leadership of Masayoshi Son to focus on investment in Korean-based Internet companies.<a href="#cite_note-:1-40">[40]</a><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG/250px-SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG/375px-SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG/500px-SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>SoftBank store in <a href="/wiki/Ibaraki,_Osaka" title="Ibaraki, Osaka">Ibaraki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osaka" title="Osaka">Osaka</a>, Japan</figcaption></figure> On 28 January 2005, SoftBank became the owner of the <a href="/wiki/Fukuoka_SoftBank_Hawks" title="Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks">Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball" title="Nippon Professional Baseball">Nippon Professional Baseball</a> team. On 17 March 2006, SoftBank announced its agreement to buy <a href="/wiki/Vodafone_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Vodafone Japan">Vodafone Japan</a>, giving it a stake in Japan's $78 billion mobile markets. In April 2006, SoftBank purchased a 23% stake in <a href="/wiki/Betfair" title="Betfair">Betfair</a>, an Internet betting exchange. In August 2006, SoftBank sold all its shares of <a href="/wiki/SBI_Group" title="SBI Group">SBI Group</a> to a subsidiary of SBI's holding company, making SBI independent. On 1 October 2006, Vodafone Japan changed its corporate name and service brand name to "SoftBank Mobile" and "SoftBank" respectively.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> On 28 January 2008, it was announced that SoftBank and <a href="/wiki/Tiffany_%26_Co." title="Tiffany & Co.">Tiffany & Co.</a> collaborated in making a limited 10 model-only phone. This phone contains more than 400 platinum diamonds, totaling more than 20 carats. The cost is said to be more than 100,000,000 yen.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010–2016_acquisitions">2010–2016 acquisitions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2010–2016 acquisitions">edit</a>]</div> On 3 February 2010, SoftBank acquired 13.7% in <a href="/wiki/Ustream" class="mw-redirect" title="Ustream">Ustream</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> On 1 October 2010, <a href="/wiki/Ayumi_Hamasaki" title="Ayumi Hamasaki">Ayumi Hamasaki</a> became the commercial spokesperson.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> On 3 October 2012, the takeover of competitor <a href="/wiki/EAccess" class="mw-redirect" title="EAccess">eAccess</a> was announced.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> On 1 July 2013, SoftBank announced that Willcom was a wholly-owned subsidiary, after the termination of rehabilitation proceedings. eAccess was merged with Willcom, which resulted in a new subsidiary and brand from Yahoo! Japan, <a href="/wiki/Ymobile_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Ymobile Corporation">Ymobile Corporation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> On 15 October 2012, SoftBank announced plans to take control of American <a href="/wiki/Sprint_Corporation" title="Sprint Corporation">Sprint Nextel</a> by purchasing a 70% stake for $20 billion.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> On 6 July 2013, the United States <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> approved SoftBank's acquisition for $22.2 billion for a 78% ownership interest in Sprint.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> On 6 August 2013, SoftBank bought 2% more shares of Sprint Corporation, increasing its ownership stake to 80%. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Softbank_in_Sendai_%26_the_decorations_of_Sendai_Star_Festival.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Softbank_in_Sendai_%26_the_decorations_of_Sendai_Star_Festival.JPG/220px-Softbank_in_Sendai_%26_the_decorations_of_Sendai_Star_Festival.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Softbank_in_Sendai_%26_the_decorations_of_Sendai_Star_Festival.JPG/330px-Softbank_in_Sendai_%26_the_decorations_of_Sendai_Star_Festival.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Softbank_in_Sendai_%26_the_decorations_of_Sendai_Star_Festival.JPG/440px-Softbank_in_Sendai_%26_the_decorations_of_Sendai_Star_Festival.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>SoftBank store in <a href="/wiki/Sendai" title="Sendai">Sendai</a>, with decorations for the <a href="/wiki/Tanabata" title="Tanabata">Tanabata</a> </figcaption></figure> In October 2013, SoftBank acquired a 51% stake in <a href="/wiki/Supercell_(video_game_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supercell (video game company)">Supercell</a> for a reported $2.1 billion. Later on 25 October 2014, they invested $210 million in <a href="/wiki/OlaCabs" class="mw-redirect" title="OlaCabs">OlaCabs</a>,<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> $627 million in <a href="/wiki/Snapdeal" title="Snapdeal">Snapdeal</a> with a 30% stake in the company on 28 October 2014, and a $100 million investment in <a href="/wiki/Housing.com" title="Housing.com">Housing.com</a> for a 30% stake in November 2014.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> In 2013, the company bought a controlling stake in French company Aldebaran Robotics, which was rebranded SoftBank Robotics. In 2014, teams from both companies co-designed <a href="/wiki/Pepper_(robot)" title="Pepper (robot)">Pepper</a>, a humanoid robot. In 2015, SoftBank increased its stake to 95%.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> In 2015, SoftBank acquired <a href="/wiki/DramaFever" title="DramaFever">DramaFever</a>.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> In May 2015, Masayoshi Son said he would appoint <a href="/wiki/Nikesh_Arora" title="Nikesh Arora">Nikesh Arora</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> executive, as <a href="/wiki/Representative_Director_(Japan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Representative Director (Japan)">Representative Director</a> and President of SoftBank. Arora had been heading SoftBank's investment arm.<a href="#cite_note-WSJ-54">[54]</a> On 1 June 2015, SoftBank acquired an additional 22.7% stake in Supercell, increasing its total stake to 73.2% and becoming the sole external shareholder of the company.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> In June 2015, SoftBank announced it would invest US$1 billion in the Korean e-commerce website <a href="/wiki/Coupang" title="Coupang">Coupang</a> as part of its overseas expansion plans.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> In July 2015, SoftBank announced the renaming of the company from SoftBank Corp to SoftBank Group Corp. Meanwhile, SoftBank Mobile was renamed to SoftBank Corp, the now-former name of the company as a whole.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> On 16 February 2016, SoftBank announced they would repurchase a record 14.2% of shares, valued at $4.4bn, to boost investor confidence.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> On 31 March 2016, they announced they would sell shares worth $7.9 billion of their stake in Alibaba Group. On 21 June 2016, SoftBank sold its 84% stake in Supercell for a reported US$7.3 billion to <a href="/wiki/Tencent" title="Tencent">Tencent</a>.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> On 3 June 2016, Softbank agreed to sell most of its stake in <a href="/wiki/GungHo_Online_Entertainment" title="GungHo Online Entertainment">GungHo Online Entertainment</a> (approximately 23.47%) for about $685 million, ending Softbank's majority ownership.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> The offer was completed by 22 June.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> In June 2016, Nikesh Arora stepped down amidst pressure from investors. Board member Ron Fisher and Baer Capital Partners founder Alok Sama undertook Arora's overseas investment duties.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> One month later,<a href="#cite_note-softbank-fortress-66">[66]</a> Son announced the company's largest deal ever to buy British chip designer <a href="/wiki/Arm_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arm (company)">Arm Holdings</a> for more than US$32 billion.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> This acquisition was completed on 5 September 2016.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> On 6 December 2016, after meeting with the then United States <a href="/wiki/President-elect_of_the_United_States" title="President-elect of the United States">President-elect</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, chief executive <a href="/wiki/Masayoshi_Son" title="Masayoshi Son">Masayoshi Son</a> announced SoftBank would be investing US$50 billion in the United States toward businesses creating 50,000 new jobs.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2017–2018">2017–2018</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2017–2018">edit</a>]</div> On 30 January 2017, the Wall Street Journal wrote that SoftBank Group was "weighing an investment of well over $1 billion in shared-office space company <a href="/wiki/WeWork" title="WeWork">WeWork</a>, in what could be among the first deals from its new $100 billion technology fund."<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> On 20 March, SoftBank bought a $300m stake in WeWork.<a href="#cite_note-:0-74">[74]</a> On 14 February 2017, SoftBank Group agreed to buy <a href="/wiki/Fortress_Investment_Group" title="Fortress Investment Group">Fortress Investment Group LLC</a> for $3.3 billion.<a href="#cite_note-softbank-fortress-66">[66]</a> In February 2017, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/SoFi" title="SoFi">Social Finance Inc.</a> was close to raising $500 million from an investor group led by <a href="/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners" class="mw-redirect" title="Silver Lake Partners">Silver Lake</a>, including Softbank.<a href="#cite_note-Rudegeair-75">[75]</a> On 28 March 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank Group Corporation had approached <a href="/wiki/Didi_Chuxing" class="mw-redirect" title="Didi Chuxing">Didi Chuxing Technology Co.</a> about investing $6 billion to help the ride-hailing firm expand in <a href="/wiki/Self-driving_car" title="Self-driving car">self-driving car</a> technologies, with the bulk of the money to come from SoftBank's planned $100 billion Vision Fund.<a href="#cite_note-nyt-didi-76">[76]</a> On 18 May 2017, it was reported that Softbank had completed its single largest investment in India to date, investing $1.4 billion in <a href="/wiki/Paytm" title="Paytm">Paytm</a>. At the time, Softbank was also working on a takeover of <a href="/wiki/Snapdeal" title="Snapdeal">Snapdeal</a> by <a href="/wiki/Flipkart" title="Flipkart">Flipkart</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ft-patym-new-77">[77]</a> On 10 August 2017, Softbank invested $2.5 billion in Flipkart.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> On 27 May 2017, Softbank and the <a href="/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund_of_Saudi_Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia">Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia</a> (PIF), the kingdom's main sovereign wealth fund, partnered to create the Softbank Vision Fund, the world's largest private equity fund with a capital of $93 billion.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> Softbank Group contributed $28 billion to the investment fund, of which $8.2 billion came from the sale of approximately 25% of British multinational Arm Holdings shares.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> Saudi Arabia is the principal investor in the fund, its Public Investment Fund (PIF) agreed to inject $45 billion into the Vision Fund over 5 years, becoming its largest investor.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> Other investors include <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qualcomm" title="Qualcomm">Qualcomm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arm_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arm (company)">Arm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Foxconn" title="Foxconn">Foxconn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sharp_Corporation" title="Sharp Corporation">Sharp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Ellison" title="Larry Ellison">Larry Ellison</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mubadala" class="mw-redirect" title="Mubadala">Mubadala</a>.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> The latter agreed to invest $15 billion dollars in the fund, targeting artificial intelligence, communications infrastructure, financial technology, consumer internet, mobile computing and robotics.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> Through Softbank Vision Fund, CEO Masayoshi Son explained his intent to invest in all companies developing technologies emphasizing global <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a>, including sectors such as finance or transportation.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> In July 2019, SoftBank announced creating of a "Vision Fund 2", excluding participation from the Saudi Arabia government and including investors Apple, Foxconn, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> and others. The fund is reported to focus on AI-based technology and invest approximately $108 billion, including $38 billion of its own funds.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> In February 2020, however, a report from Wall Street Journal stated the fund would only up with less than half of that capital.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> On 8 June 2017, <a href="/wiki/Alphabet_Inc." title="Alphabet Inc.">Alphabet Inc.</a> announced the sale of <a href="/wiki/Boston_Dynamics" title="Boston Dynamics">Boston Dynamics</a> (robotics companies whose products include <a href="/wiki/BigDog" title="BigDog">BigDog</a>) to SoftBank Group for an undisclosed sum.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> On 25 August 2017, SoftBank finalized a $4.4 billion investment in WeWork.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> On 24 October 2017, Son announced the group would collaborate with Saudi Arabia to develop <a href="/wiki/Neom" title="Neom">Neom</a>, the new high-tech business and industrial city of the Saudi Kingdom.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> On 14 November 2017, Softbank agreed to invest $10 billion into <a href="/wiki/Uber" title="Uber">Uber</a>.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> On 29 December 2017, it was reported that a SoftBank-led consortium had invested $9 billion into Uber. The deal, to close in January 2018, would leave SoftBank as Uber's biggest shareholder, with a 15 percent stake.<a href="#cite_note-ft-stake-91">[91]</a> The deal was secured after Uber shareholders voted to "sell their shares to the Japanese conglomerate at a discounted price." Beyond SoftBank, consortium members included <a href="/wiki/Dragoneer_Investment_Group" title="Dragoneer Investment Group">Dragoneer</a>, Tencent, <a href="/wiki/TPG_Capital" class="mw-redirect" title="TPG Capital">TPG</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sequoia_Capital" title="Sequoia Capital">Sequoia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ft-discount-92">[92]</a> On 14 January 2018, Softbank's Vision Fund announced to invest $560 million in the German used-car sales portal Auto1.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> On 1 March 2018, Softbank's Vision Fund led a $535 million investment in <a href="/wiki/DoorDash" title="DoorDash">DoorDash</a>.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> In May 2018, CEO <a href="/wiki/Masayoshi_Son" title="Masayoshi Son">Masayoshi Son</a> revealed during an earnings presentation that Walmart had reached a deal to buy Flipkart.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> On 27 September 2018, Softbank announced the investment of $400 Million in Home-Selling Startup <a href="/wiki/Opendoor" title="Opendoor">Opendoor</a>.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> In September 2018, <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Saudi_Arabia#National_government" title="Politics of Saudi Arabia">Saudi government</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> In November 2018, SoftBank announced it would make an <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">IPO</a> of SoftBank Corp., the telecommunications operator, with the cost of share of $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 Corp. will reach $21.15 billion, which would be the second-largest IPO ever made.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> In December 2018, SoftBank invested in <a href="/wiki/ParkJockey" class="mw-redirect" title="ParkJockey">ParkJockey</a>. The startup attempts to monetize parking lots. After the investment round, general valuation of the ParkJourney reached $1 billion.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> In December 2018, SoftBank announced its intention to invest $1 billion on ride-hailing startup <a href="/wiki/Grab_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grab (company)">Grab</a>. Some sources said that the total amount of investment could reach $1.5 billion.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2019–2021">2019–2021</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2019–2021">edit</a>]</div> On September 25, 2019, Softbank Robotics launched Whiz robotic vacuum cleaner in Singapore.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> In September 2019, WeWork's IPO was canceled.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> In December 2019, Softbank sold its interest in dog-walking startup <a href="/wiki/Wag_(company)" title="Wag (company)">Wag</a> at a loss.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> <a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Yanai" title="Tadashi Yanai">Tadashi Yanai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fast_Retailing" title="Fast Retailing">Fast Retailing</a>'s CEO and Japan's richest man at the time, left the board after 18 years.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> In January 2020, multiple Softbank-funded startups started cutting their staff, including <a href="/wiki/Getaround" title="Getaround">Getaround</a>, Oyo, <a href="/wiki/Rappi" title="Rappi">Rappi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Katerra" title="Katerra">Katerra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zume" title="Zume">Zume</a>.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> In February 2020, <a href="/wiki/Elliott_Management" class="mw-redirect" title="Elliott Management">Elliott Management</a>, an activist hedge fund, bought a $2.5 billion stake in Softbank and pushed for restructuring and more transparency, especially regarding its Vision Fund.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> Consequently, plans for a second Vision Fund were pushed back.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> In November 2019, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Line_Corporation" title="Line Corporation">Line Corp.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Z_Holdings" title="Z Holdings">Z Holdings</a> were going to be a new subsidiary under <a href="/wiki/Naver_Corporation" title="Naver Corporation">Naver Corporation</a> and SoftBank Group, their respective owners.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> The closing was delayed until March 2021 due to COVID-19.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> In March 2020, SoftBank announced that it was launching an emergency ¥4.5tn ($41bn) asset sale to fund a share buyback and debt reduction. The effort was initiated by Son in order to stem a collapse in the company’s share price due to the pandemic, "This programme will be the largest share buyback and will result in the largest increase in cash balance in the history of SBG [SoftBank Group], reflecting the firm and unwavering confidence we have in our business.". After the programme was unveiled, Softbank share price rose almost 19%. The program included a plan to repurchase ¥2tn of its shares in addition to the ¥500bn buyback it promised 10 days prior. Combined, SoftBank would be repurchasing 45% of its stock.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> On April 1, 2020, Sprint completed its merger of Sprint Corporation and T-Mobile US,, which was majority-owned by Deutsche Telekom, leaving T-Mobile the parent company. The merger also led to Softbank holding 24% of the new T-Mobile's shares, while 43% of shares are held by Deutsche Telekom. The remaining 33% will be held by others. In May 2020, <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba</a>'s co-founder and former CEO <a href="/wiki/Jack_Ma" title="Jack Ma">Jack Ma</a> resigned from the board.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> In July 2020, SoftBank announced that it was considering selling or IPOing British chip designer <a href="/wiki/Arm_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arm (company)">Arm Holdings</a>, which has been in a feud with the Chinese over control of its local subsidiary, but it did not have the majority ownership due to a decision made by Softbank to sell off the stake to the local partner.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> For Q2 of 2020, the company's revenues were $12 billion. The firm announced that it would be arranging a new fund worth $555 million. The fund will be used to invest in various companies, including <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a>, Apple and <a href="/wiki/Facebook,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Facebook, Inc.">Facebook</a>.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> In September 2020, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a $100 million Series C round in Biofourmis.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> Also in September 2020, Softbank was identified as the Nasdaq whale, where it bought stock options valued in the billions, betting on higher prices for the biggest technology companies.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> That month, SoftBank sold Brightstar Corporation to Brightstar Capital Partners for an undisclosed amount.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> American chip design company <a href="/wiki/Nvidia" title="Nvidia">Nvidia</a> announced plans on September 13, 2020, to acquire ARM from SoftBank, pending regulatory approval, for a value of US $40 billion in stock and cash. This would become the largest semiconductor acquisition to date. SoftBank Group would retain a 10% share in the company, while ARM would maintain its headquarters in Cambridge]].<a href="#cite_note-NVIDIA_bought-122">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-Nvidia_details-123">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> But this deal collapsed due to regulatory hurdles.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> In December 2020, <a href="/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Group" title="Hyundai Motor Group">Hyundai Motor Group</a> acquired an 80% stake of <a href="/wiki/Boston_Dynamics" title="Boston Dynamics">Boston Dynamics</a> from SoftBank for approximately $880 million. SoftBank retains about 20% through an affiliate.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> In January 2021, SoftBank sold $2 billion in Uber Technologies shares through affiliate firm SB Cayman.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> In March 2021, SoftBank made a record $36.99 billion profit from its Vision Fund unit and investment gains via the public market debut of <a href="/wiki/Coupang" title="Coupang">Coupang</a>.<a href="#cite_note-record-profit-128">[128]</a> SoftBank Group's net profit was $45.88 billion (¥4.99 trillion).<a href="#cite_note-record-profit-128">[128]</a> It was the largest recorded annual profit by a Japanese company in history.<a href="#cite_note-record-profit-128">[128]</a> The same month, Softbank's Vision Fund 2 announced investment in the <a href="/wiki/EToro" title="EToro">eToro</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Special-purpose_acquisition_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Special-purpose acquisition Company (page does not exist)">SPAC</a> merger <a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_investment_in_public_Equity&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Private investment in public Equity (page does not exist)">PIPE</a> of $650 million.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> In April 2021, Softbank announced plans to acquire a 40% stake in AutoStore for $2.8 billion and in July 2021, it announced it would invest $870 million in the Korean hotel booking platform Yanolja.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> In May 2021, Softbank stated it would sell SB Energy India to Adani Green Energy, valuing the unit at $3.5 billion. The sale is speculated to mark a shift in the company's trajectory, moving away from investments in <a href="/wiki/Solar_energy" title="Solar energy">solar energy</a> towards companies dealing with artificial intelligence.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> Later that month, Bloomberg reported that Vision Fund could go public via a $300 million <a href="/w/index.php?title=Special-purpose_acquisition_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Special-purpose acquisition Company (page does not exist)">SPAC</a> in 2021, listing in Amsterdam.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> In July 2021, Softbank announced that it would acquire the Yahoo Japan brand from Verizon Communications for $1.6 billion.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> In August 2021, Son said he would begin to make personal investments alongside <a href="/wiki/SoftBank_Vision_Fund" title="SoftBank Vision Fund">Softbank Group's Vision Fund 2</a>.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2022–present">2022–present</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2022–present">edit</a>]</div> In August 2022, Softbank said that it sold its entire Uber holdings in April–July 2022.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> It was also reported that Softbank exited <a href="/wiki/Opendoor" title="Opendoor">Opendoor</a> in that quarter.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> Five years after Masayoshi Son’s $100 billion fund entered the financial world to much fanfare, Softbank’s venture firm was crumbling and on the verge of collapse. Its large venture vehicles struggled badly, performing in the bottom of the asset class, and many of Son’s closest associates in the effort had departed from the company.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> In February 2023, <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Tsusho" title="Toyota Tsusho">Toyota Tsusho</a> announced that it had bought the <a href="/wiki/Controlling_interest" title="Controlling interest">controlling interest</a> in SB Energy, which would become a <a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">subsidiary</a>, alongside Toyota Tsusho subsidiary <a href="/wiki/Eurus_Energy" title="Eurus Energy">Eurus Energy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> In April 2023, SoftBank Group Corp. announced it was selling to a Singapore-based company run by Masayoshi Son’s youngest brother its Korea-based early-stage venture capital arm SoftBank Ventures Asia Corp. after suffering billions of dollars in losses from failed startup bets.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a> In May 2023, the SoftBank Group announced that losses from the <a href="/wiki/SoftBank_Vision_Fund" title="SoftBank Vision Fund">SoftBank Vision Fund</a> had widened 70 percent to a record $32 billion from a year ago.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> In another <a href="/wiki/Divestment" title="Divestment">divestiture</a> of assets, SoftBank Group also sold the stake in Fortress Investment Group to <a href="/wiki/Mubadala_Investment_Company" title="Mubadala Investment Company">Mubadala</a> and Fortress' management.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> SoftBank Group's Arm filed for an IPO on 21 August 2023 on the Nasdaq.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a><a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> A few days earlier, SoftBank bought back the 25% stake from Vision Fund for around $16 billion, valuing Arm at over $64 billion.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> Arm went public on 14 September 2023 raising $4.87 billion at a $54.5 billion valuation, with SoftBank continuing to own 90.6% of the company following the offering.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a> In December 2023, telecommunication and networking company SoftBank Corp, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp, paid 513 million dollars for a controlling stake in Irish technology company Cubic Telecom, in a deal that will net the company’s founders and its private backers a multimillion-euro payout.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a><a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> On June 27, 2024, Bloomberg reported that SoftBank has invested in the AI search startup Perplexity AI, valuing the company at $3 billion. Perplexity AI, known for its advanced artificial intelligence technology, aims to revolutionize online search experiences. This investment aligns with SoftBank's ongoing strategy to support innovative AI companies, highlighting Perplexity AI's potential in the tech industry. The funding is expected to accelerate the startup's growth and development, further enhancing its AI capabilities and market reach.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Institutional_ownership">Institutional ownership</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Institutional ownership">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020">2020</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2020">edit</a>]</div> As of 30 September 2020, SoftBank ownership is as follows:<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a><a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Masayoshi_Son" title="Masayoshi Son">Masayoshi Son</a> (21.25%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Master_Trust_Bank_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="The Master Trust Bank of Japan">The Master Trust Bank of Japan</a> <a href="/wiki/Investment_trust" title="Investment trust">investment trusts</a> (10.25%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Trustee_Services_Bank" title="Japan Trustee Services Bank">Japan Trustee Services Bank</a> main investment trusts (5.87%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase" title="JPMorgan Chase">JPMorgan Chase</a> (7.45%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citibank" title="Citibank">Citibank</a> (1.4%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group" title="The Vanguard Group">The Vanguard Group</a> (2.19%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Group_Companies" title="Capital Group Companies">Capital Group Companies</a> (2.4%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baillie_Gifford" title="Baillie Gifford">Baillie Gifford</a> (1.36%)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2022">2022</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2022">edit</a>]</div> By December 2022, Masayoshi Son’s stake in the company he founded had risen to 34.2% from 32.2% as of the end of September.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Business_units">Business units</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Business units">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2021)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> SoftBank's corporate profile includes various other companies such as Japanese broadband company SoftBank BB, data center company IDC Frontier and the publishing company <a href="/wiki/SB_Creative" title="SB Creative">SB Creative</a>. <a href="/wiki/SBI_Group" title="SBI Group">SBI Group</a> is a Japanese <a href="/wiki/Financial_services" title="Financial services">financial services</a> company that began in 1999 as a branch of SoftBank.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ymobile" title="Ymobile">Ymobile</a> Corporation is another telecommunications subsidiary of SoftBank, established in 2014. In 2010, SoftBank founded Wireless City Planning (WCP), a subsidiary that planned the development of <a href="/wiki/TD-LTE" class="mw-redirect" title="TD-LTE">TD-LTE</a> networks throughout Japan.<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> SoftBank also operates <a href="/wiki/SoftBank_Capital" title="SoftBank Capital">SoftBank Capital</a>, a US-based venture capital company. SoftBank owns the <a href="/wiki/Fukuoka_SoftBank_Hawks" title="Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks">Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks</a> professional <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> team. SoftBank also operated in the eco-power industry through subsidiary SB Energy until its sale. It has various partnerships in Japanese subsidiaries of foreign companies such as <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a> (which has resulted in <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Japan">Yahoo! Japan</a>), <a href="/wiki/E-Trade" title="E-Trade">E-Trade</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ustream.tv" class="mw-redirect" title="Ustream.tv">Ustream.tv</a>, <a href="/wiki/EF_Education_First" title="EF Education First">EF Education First</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morningstar,_Inc." title="Morningstar, Inc.">Morningstar</a>. It also has stakes in <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba Group</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sprint_Corporation" title="Sprint Corporation">Sprint Corporation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-74">[74]</a> Other holdings include <a href="/wiki/Softbank_Corp." class="mw-redirect" title="Softbank Corp.">Softbank Corp.</a> [<a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF" class="extiw" title="ja:ソフトバンク">ja</a>], <a href="/wiki/Softbank_Vision_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Softbank Vision Fund">Softbank Vision Fund</a> [<a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89" class="extiw" title="ja:ソフトバンク・ビジョン・ファンド">ja</a>], <a href="/wiki/Arm_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arm (company)">Arm Holdings</a> (90.6%), <a href="/wiki/Fortress_Investment_Group" title="Fortress Investment Group">Fortress Investment Group</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Dynamics" title="Boston Dynamics">Boston Dynamics</a>, <a href="/wiki/T-Mobile_US" title="T-Mobile US">T-Mobile US</a> (3.3%), <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba</a> (29.5%), <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Japan">Yahoo Japan</a> (48.17%), <a href="/wiki/Brightstar_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Brightstar Corporation">Brightstar</a> (87.1%), <a href="/wiki/Uber" title="Uber">Uber</a> (15%), <a href="/wiki/Didi_Chuxing" class="mw-redirect" title="Didi Chuxing">Didi Chuxing</a> (c. 20%), <a href="/wiki/Ola_Cabs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ola Cabs">Ola</a> (c. 30%), <a href="/wiki/Renren" title="Renren">Renren</a> (42.9%), <a href="/wiki/InMobi" title="InMobi">InMobi</a> (45%), <a href="/wiki/Hike_Messenger" title="Hike Messenger">Hike</a> (25.8%), <a href="/wiki/Snapdeal" title="Snapdeal">Snapdeal</a> (c. 30%), <a href="/wiki/Fanatics_(sports_retailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fanatics (sports retailer)">Fanatics</a> (c. 22%), <a href="/wiki/Improbable_(company)" title="Improbable (company)">Improbable Worlds</a> (c. 50%), <a href="/wiki/Paytm" title="Paytm">Paytm</a> (c. 20%), <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Rooms" title="Oyo Rooms">OYO</a> (42%), <a href="/wiki/Ping_An_Insurance" title="Ping An Insurance">Ping An Insurance</a> (7.41%),<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> <a href="/wiki/Slack_Technologies" title="Slack Technologies">Slack Technologies</a> (c. 5%), <a href="/wiki/WeWork" title="WeWork">WeWork</a> (c. 46%),<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a> <a href="/wiki/ZhongAn" title="ZhongAn">ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance</a> (5%), <a href="/wiki/Compass,_Inc." title="Compass, Inc.">Compass, Inc.</a> (c. 30.1%), AUTO1 Group (c. 20%), <a href="/wiki/Wag_(company)" title="Wag (company)">Wag</a> (45%), <a href="/wiki/Katerra" title="Katerra">Katerra</a> (c. 28%), <a href="/wiki/Cruise_Automation" class="mw-redirect" title="Cruise Automation">Cruise Automation</a> (c. 19.6%), <a href="/wiki/Parkjockey" title="Parkjockey">ParkJockey</a>,<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> <a href="/wiki/Tokopedia" title="Tokopedia">Tokopedia</a> (Indonesia),<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> and many more companies. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SoftBank_Corp.">SoftBank Corp.</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: SoftBank Corp.">edit</a>]</div> SoftBank Corp. (ソフトバンク株式会社, SofutoBanku Kabushikigaisha) is SoftBank's telecommunications subsidiary, providing both mobile and fixed-line services. It was called SoftBank Mobile until July 2015, when the Group merged SoftBank BB Corp., SoftBank Telecom Corp. and <a href="/wiki/Ymobile_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Ymobile Corporation">Ymobile Corporation</a> to reflect its fixed-line and ISP operations.<a href="#cite_note-mobile_merge-163">[163]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="J-PHONE">J-PHONE</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: J-PHONE">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SONY_TH291_(1999)_1_(2759751822).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/SONY_TH291_%281999%29_1_%282759751822%29.jpg/150px-SONY_TH291_%281999%29_1_%282759751822%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/SONY_TH291_%281999%29_1_%282759751822%29.jpg/225px-SONY_TH291_%281999%29_1_%282759751822%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/SONY_TH291_%281999%29_1_%282759751822%29.jpg/300px-SONY_TH291_%281999%29_1_%282759751822%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2176" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Sony TH291 cellular phone for the Digital Tu-Ka operator</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jan14_01.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Jan14_01.JPG/220px-Jan14_01.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Jan14_01.JPG/330px-Jan14_01.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Jan14_01.JPG/440px-Jan14_01.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>J-PHONE store in <a href="/wiki/Nagoya" title="Nagoya">Nagoya</a> in 2003</figcaption></figure> SoftBank's mobile communications arm began with the formation of <a href="/wiki/SoftBank_Telecom" title="SoftBank Telecom">Japan Telecom</a> in 1984. The Digital Phone Group (デジタルホン, DPG, three local companies) mobile phone division was formed in 1994, and J-PHONE Co., Ltd. (J-フォン) was formed in 1999 by the DGP/ Digital TU-KA Group merger (DTG, six local companies, not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/KDDI" title="KDDI">TU-KA</a>). Japan Telecom owned a stake of 45.1%. J-PHONE grew steadily for a decade by introducing new services and enhancements such as SkyWalker for <a href="/wiki/Personal_Digital_Cellular" title="Personal Digital Cellular">PDC</a>, SkyMelody ringtone download, the <a href="/wiki/Sha-Mail" title="Sha-Mail">Sha-Mail</a> picture mail introduced following <a href="/wiki/Camera_phones" class="mw-redirect" title="Camera phones">camera phones</a> developed by <a href="/wiki/Sharp_Corporation" title="Sharp Corporation">SHARP</a>, the mobile multimedia data service <a href="/wiki/J-Sky" title="J-Sky">J-Sky</a> modeled after <a href="/wiki/NTT_DoCoMo" class="mw-redirect" title="NTT DoCoMo">NTT DoCoMo</a>'s <a href="/wiki/I-mode" title="I-mode">i-mode</a>, and advanced <a href="/wiki/Java_platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Java platform">Java</a> services based on <a href="/wiki/JSCL" class="mw-redirect" title="JSCL">JSCL</a>, modeled after NTT DoCoMo's <a href="/wiki/DoJa" title="DoJa">DoJa</a> based i-appli. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vodafone">Vodafone</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Vodafone">edit</a>]</div> In October 2001, the British mobile phone group <a href="/wiki/Vodafone" title="Vodafone">Vodafone</a> increased its share to 66.7% of Japan Telecom and 69.7% of J-Phone. On 1 October 2003, the company's name and the service brand changed to Vodafone, while the division was called Vodafone <a href="/wiki/Kabushiki_gaisha" title="Kabushiki gaisha">K.K.</a> or Vodafone Japan.<a href="#cite_note-Bill_Morrow_Article-164">[164]</a> However, in January 2005, Vodafone Japan lost 58,700 customers and in February 2005 lost 53,200 customers, while competitors NTT DoCoMo gained 184,400 customers, while <a href="/wiki/Au_by_KDDI" class="mw-redirect" title="Au by KDDI">Au by KDDI</a> gained 163,700, and <a href="/wiki/Willcom" class="mw-redirect" title="Willcom">Willcom</a> gained 35,000. While as of February 2005, DoCoMo's <a href="/wiki/FOMA" class="mw-redirect" title="FOMA">FOMA</a> 3G service had attracted 10 million subscribers and KDDI's 3G service had attracted over 17 million subscribers, Vodafone's 3G service only attracted 527,300 subscribers. Vodafone 3G failed to attract subscribers because Vodafone reduced investments in 3G services in Japan in 2002/3; handsets did not fully match the needs and preferences of Japanese customers. At the end of February 2005, Vodafone Japan had 15.1 million customers. By the end of October 2005, the number of subscribers had fallen below 15M. During the same period, NTT DoCoMo gained 1.65 million customers, and KDDI/AU gained 1.82 million customers. Vodafone-Japan had only 4.8% of Japan's 3G market. Vodafone changed the name of its multimedia data services from J-Sky to <a href="/wiki/Vodafone_live!" title="Vodafone live!">Vodafone live!</a> and used J-Sky's principles, technologies, and business models to introduce the <a href="/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol" title="Wireless Application Protocol">WAP</a>-based Vodafone live! in Vodafone's other markets. At the end of February 2005, Vodafone live! had 12.907 million subscribers in Japan. By the end of October 2005, the number of Vodafone live! subscribers had fallen by 138,000. In March 2006, Vodafone began discussing the sale of the Vodafone Japan unit to SoftBank. Vodafone was unable to satisfy customers. Handsets had user interfaces that differed too much from the Japanese interface and lacked competitive features. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SoftBank_Mobile">SoftBank Mobile</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: SoftBank Mobile">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:(Real)_TV_on_Mobile_(397712891).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%28Real%29_TV_on_Mobile_%28397712891%29.jpg/220px-%28Real%29_TV_on_Mobile_%28397712891%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%28Real%29_TV_on_Mobile_%28397712891%29.jpg/330px-%28Real%29_TV_on_Mobile_%28397712891%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%28Real%29_TV_on_Mobile_%28397712891%29.jpg/440px-%28Real%29_TV_on_Mobile_%28397712891%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Television broadcast on a 2007 <a href="/wiki/Sharp_Corporation" title="Sharp Corporation">Sharp</a> phone on SoftBank</figcaption></figure> On 17 March 2006, Vodafone Group announced it had agreed to sell Vodafone Japan to SoftBank for about US$15.1 billion. On 18 May 2006, the unit was renamed "SoftBank Mobile Corp.", effective 1 October 2006. On 4 June 2008, SoftBank Mobile announced a partnership with <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> and brought the iPhone (3G) to Japan later in 2008.<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> SoftBank Mobile was the only official carrier of the <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a> in Japan until the release of <a href="/wiki/IPhone_4S" class="mw-redirect" title="IPhone 4S">iPhone 4S</a> in 2011, when <a href="/wiki/Au_(mobile_phone_company)" title="Au (mobile phone company)">au by KDDI</a> began to offer it.<a href="#cite_note-iht-166">[166]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Technology">Technology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Technology">edit</a>]</div> SoftBank Corp.'s mobile network operates <a href="/wiki/W-CDMA" class="mw-redirect" title="W-CDMA">W-CDMA</a> (<a href="/wiki/UMTS" title="UMTS">UMTS</a> <a href="/wiki/3G" title="3G">3G</a>) network ("SoftBank 3G"). SoftBank's 3G network is compatible with <a href="/wiki/UMTS" title="UMTS">UMTS</a> and supports transparent global roaming for UMTS subscribers from other countries. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Timeline">Timeline</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Timeline">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vodafone_Mobile_SHOP_ikebukuro_japan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Vodafone_Mobile_SHOP_ikebukuro_japan.jpg/220px-Vodafone_Mobile_SHOP_ikebukuro_japan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Vodafone_Mobile_SHOP_ikebukuro_japan.jpg/330px-Vodafone_Mobile_SHOP_ikebukuro_japan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Vodafone_Mobile_SHOP_ikebukuro_japan.jpg/440px-Vodafone_Mobile_SHOP_ikebukuro_japan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="846" /></a><figcaption>Vodafone store in <a href="/wiki/Ikebukuro" title="Ikebukuro">Ikebukuro</a>, Tokyo</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Softbank_celltower01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Softbank_celltower01.jpg/220px-Softbank_celltower01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Softbank_celltower01.jpg/330px-Softbank_celltower01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Softbank_celltower01.jpg/440px-Softbank_celltower01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>A SoftBank mobile cell tower in <a href="/wiki/Nakatsugawa,_Gifu" class="mw-redirect" title="Nakatsugawa, Gifu">Nakatsugawa, Gifu</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1981: SoftBank Corp. (currently SoftBank Group Corp.) Japan (Yombancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) established. Commenced operations as a distributor of packaged software</li> <li>1984: Japan Telecom was founded.</li> <li>1986: Japan Telecom launches leased circuit services.</li> <li>1986: Railway Telecommunication established.</li> <li>1989: Railway Telecommunication merges with Japan Telecom.</li> <li>1991: Tokyo Digital Phone established.</li> <li>1994: J-Phone starts PDC cellular service in the 1.5 <a href="/wiki/GHz" class="mw-redirect" title="GHz">GHz</a> band, 10 <a href="/wiki/MHz" class="mw-redirect" title="MHz">MHz</a> bandwidth.</li> <li>1997: J-Phone launches SkyWalker SMS service designed by Aldiscon and Ericsson for PDC</li> <li>1998: J-Phone launches SkyMelody ringtone download service</li> <li>1999: J-Phone launches J-Sky wireless Internet service ten months after NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, which was launched in February 1999.</li> <li>2000: J-Phone launches Sha-Mail (写メール) picture messaging service using the world's first camera phones developed by SHARP</li> <li>2001: J-Phone launches Java service with JSCL library</li> <li>2002: J-Phone launches W-CDMA 3G service for the first time</li> <li>2002: Company name was changed to Japan Telecom Holdings. The fixed-line telecommunications business was also separated to found a new Japan Telecom.</li> <li>2003: J-Phone company name is changed to Vodafone K.K., and J-Sky name is changed to Vodafone live!. Vodafone launches a Japan-nationwide <a href="/wiki/David_Beckham" title="David Beckham">Beckham</a> campaign</li> <li>2003: Company name was changed to Vodafone Holdings K.K.</li> <li>2004: Vodafone K.K. merges with Vodafone Holdings K.K. and the company name is changed to Vodafone K.K.</li> <li>2004: Vodafone relaunches the 3G services in Japan a second time offering mobile phone handsets designed primarily for the European markets</li> <li>2005: Vodafone changes management and relaunches 3G services in Japan a third time</li> <li>2006: Vodafone officially announced it had agreed to sell Vodafone Japan (Vodafone K.K.) to SoftBank for a total of 1.75 trillion Japanese yen (approx US$15.1 billion) in one of the largest M&A transactions in Japan to date</li> <li>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. Masayoshi Son became CEO and Representative Director of Vodafone K.K.</li> <li>2006: Headquarters moved from Atago Hills to Shiodome to integrate operations with other SoftBank group companies.</li> <li>2006: SoftBank announced that the name of the company will be changed to "SoftBank Mobile Corp." effective 1 October 2006</li> <li>2006: SoftBank started rebranding "Vodafone" to "SoftBank."</li> <li>2006: Vodafone Japan company name is changed to "SoftBank Mobile Corp."</li> <li>2008: SoftBank Mobile releases <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a> in Japan beating NTT DoCoMo</li> <li>2008: SoftBank Mobile joins <a href="/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance" title="Open Handset Alliance">Open Handset Alliance</a><a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a></li> <li>2010: Softbank purchased 100% of the PHS mobile operator Willcom.</li> <li>2012: SoftBank Mobile unveils the Pantone 5 107SH, a mobile phone with a built-in <a href="/wiki/Geiger_counter" title="Geiger counter">geiger counter</a>.<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a></li> <li>2015: Investment in US-based Social Finance, Inc (SoFi) announced</li> <li>2015: SoftBank Mobile was merged with SoftBank BB Corp., SoftBank Telecom Corp., and <a href="/wiki/Ymobile_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Ymobile Corporation">Ymobile Corporation</a> to form a new subsidiary, SoftBank Corp., to reflect its new status of providing fixed-line and ISP operations.<a href="#cite_note-mobile_merge-163">[163]</a></li> <li>2018: SoftBank Corp. (TSE: 9434) listed on the First Section of the <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Stock_Exchange" title="Tokyo Stock Exchange">Tokyo Stock Exchange</a> On 19 December 2018.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gallery">Gallery</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Gallery">edit</a>]</div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:THE_PREMIUM_SoftBank_821SH_PG_open.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="SoftBank 821SH PG"><img alt="SoftBank 821SH PG" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/THE_PREMIUM_SoftBank_821SH_PG_open.jpg/80px-THE_PREMIUM_SoftBank_821SH_PG_open.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/THE_PREMIUM_SoftBank_821SH_PG_open.jpg/120px-THE_PREMIUM_SoftBank_821SH_PG_open.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/THE_PREMIUM_SoftBank_821SH_PG_open.jpg/160px-THE_PREMIUM_SoftBank_821SH_PG_open.jpg 2x" data-file-width="854" data-file-height="1280" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">SoftBank 821SH PG</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:SoftBank_001P_Gold01.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="SoftBank 001P by Panasonic"><img alt="SoftBank 001P by Panasonic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/SoftBank_001P_Gold01.jpg/120px-SoftBank_001P_Gold01.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/SoftBank_001P_Gold01.jpg/180px-SoftBank_001P_Gold01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/SoftBank_001P_Gold01.jpg/240px-SoftBank_001P_Gold01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1500" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">SoftBank 001P by <a href="/wiki/Panasonic" title="Panasonic">Panasonic</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:ARROWS_A_202F_SoftBank_(2013_.08.17).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="SoftBank A202F by FUJITSU"><img alt="SoftBank A202F by FUJITSU" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/ARROWS_A_202F_SoftBank_%282013_.08.17%29.jpg/120px-ARROWS_A_202F_SoftBank_%282013_.08.17%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/ARROWS_A_202F_SoftBank_%282013_.08.17%29.jpg/180px-ARROWS_A_202F_SoftBank_%282013_.08.17%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/ARROWS_A_202F_SoftBank_%282013_.08.17%29.jpg/240px-ARROWS_A_202F_SoftBank_%282013_.08.17%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">SoftBank A202F by <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">FUJITSU</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Vodafone_803T_Soul_Black_open.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vodafone 803T by Toshiba"><img alt="Vodafone 803T by Toshiba" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Vodafone_803T_Soul_Black_open.jpg/90px-Vodafone_803T_Soul_Black_open.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Vodafone_803T_Soul_Black_open.jpg/135px-Vodafone_803T_Soul_Black_open.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Vodafone_803T_Soul_Black_open.jpg/180px-Vodafone_803T_Soul_Black_open.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1224" data-file-height="1632" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Vodafone 803T by <a href="/wiki/Toshiba" title="Toshiba">Toshiba</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Japanese_mobile_phone.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="J-PHONE J-SH07 by Sharp (2001)"><img alt="J-PHONE J-SH07 by Sharp (2001)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Japanese_mobile_phone.jpg/60px-Japanese_mobile_phone.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Japanese_mobile_phone.jpg/90px-Japanese_mobile_phone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Japanese_mobile_phone.jpg/120px-Japanese_mobile_phone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1632" data-file-height="3264" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">J-PHONE J-SH07 by <a href="/wiki/Sharp_Corporation" title="Sharp Corporation">Sharp</a> (2001)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Mobile_Blazer_(2724270785).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mobile Blazer (2008)"><img alt="Mobile Blazer (2008)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Mobile_Blazer_%282724270785%29.jpg/90px-Mobile_Blazer_%282724270785%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Mobile_Blazer_%282724270785%29.jpg/135px-Mobile_Blazer_%282724270785%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Mobile_Blazer_%282724270785%29.jpg/180px-Mobile_Blazer_%282724270785%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="599" data-file-height="800" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Mobile Blazer (2008)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marketing">Marketing</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Marketing">edit</a>]</div> Since May 2006, SoftBank's telecommunications marketing and commercials have principally revolved around "Otosan sujan karki", the canine <a href="/wiki/Patriarch" title="Patriarch">patriarch</a> of the otherwise human "Shirason, Kaito" family.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> "Otosan" translates to father, and the character, a <a href="/wiki/Hokkaido_dog" class="mw-redirect" title="Hokkaido dog">Hokkaido dog</a>, indeed acts as the father of the family, along with the son "Kojiro" (starred by <a href="/wiki/Dante_Carver" title="Dante Carver">Dante Carver</a>), mom "Masako" (<a href="/wiki/Kanako_Higuchi" title="Kanako Higuchi">Kanako Higuchi</a>), and daughter "Aya" (<a href="/wiki/Aya_Ueto" title="Aya Ueto">Aya Ueto</a>).<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a> The advertising series proved to be popular: CM Research Center ranked the Otousan adverts as the most popular in Japan between 2007 and 2012, based on monthly surveys of 3,000 randomly selected adults.<a href="#cite_note-JT1-171">[171]</a><a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> SoftBank partnered with the <a href="/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)" title="Ingress (video game)">Ingress</a> <a href="/wiki/Augmented_reality_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Augmented reality game">augmented reality game</a>, supporting the branded "SoftBank Ultra Link" in-game <a href="/wiki/Item_(gaming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Item (gaming)">item</a>.<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sponsorship">Sponsorship</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Sponsorship">edit</a>]</div> SoftBank bought a "team" for the <a href="/wiki/America%27s_Cup" title="America's Cup">America's Cup</a>. The team was named SoftBank Team Japan, and <a href="/wiki/Yanmar" title="Yanmar">Yanmar</a> came on board. SoftBank Team Japan raced in the 2017 races held in <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a>. The team members come from various backgrounds, most of whom were not Japanese.<a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a> The company was the official jersey sponsor of the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese national basketball team">Japanese national basketball team</a> at the official <a href="/wiki/2017_Asian_Basketball_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Asian Basketball Championship">2017 Asian Basketball Championship</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> as well as the <a href="/wiki/2019_FIBA_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 FIBA World Cup">2019 FIBA World Cup</a>. SoftBank has also owned the <a href="/wiki/Fukuoka_SoftBank_Hawks" title="Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks">Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks</a>, a Japanese professional baseball team based in <a href="/wiki/Fukuoka" title="Fukuoka">Fukuoka</a>, since 2005. The SoftBank logo appears on the jersey, and the team has won seven <a href="/wiki/Japan_Series" title="Japan Series">Japan Series</a> championships under SoftBank, all of which came between <a href="/wiki/2011_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_season" title="2011 Nippon Professional Baseball season">2011</a> and <a href="/wiki/2020_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_season" title="2020 Nippon Professional Baseball season">2020</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Baby_bonus">Baby bonus</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Baby bonus">edit</a>]</div> In 2015, SoftBank, along with some other companies in Japan,<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> offered a baby bonus for employees who have children. The payments range from 50,000 yen for the first child to 5 million yen for the fifth child.<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a><a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[179]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vision_fund_investments">Vision fund investments</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Vision fund investments">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/SoftBank_Vision_Fund" title="SoftBank Vision Fund">SoftBank Vision Fund</a></div> SoftBank Investment Advisers oversees SoftBank's Vision Fund, created in 2017, which invests in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and the <a href="/wiki/Internet_of_things" title="Internet of things">internet of things</a>.<a href="#cite_note-180">[180]</a> It intended to develop a portfolio of 125 AI companies.<a href="#cite_note-181">[181]</a> According to the fund and Son, it also invested in companies to revolutionize real estate, transportation, and retail. Son claimed he would make personal connections with the CEOs of all companies funded by Vision Fund in order to boost synergies among them.<a href="#cite_note-182">[182]</a> Son’s original plans were to raise $100 billion for a new fund every few years, investing about $50 billion a year in startups.<a href="#cite_note-183">[183]</a> By 2023, after the launch of Vision Fund 1 and 2, the dismal performance<a href="#cite_note-184">[184]</a> of SoftBank’s funds had cast a shadow over the initial exuberance of both Masayoshi Son and his company regarding its huge, largely unprofitable intercorporate investments<a href="#cite_note-185">[185]</a> that had become the main mission, vision and purpose of the entire SoftBank Group.<a href="#cite_note-186">[186]</a><a href="#cite_note-187">[187]</a><a href="#cite_note-188">[188]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="SoftBank_Ventures_Asia">SoftBank Ventures Asia</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: SoftBank Ventures Asia">edit</a>]</div> SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA) was the global <a href="/wiki/Startup_company" title="Startup company">early-stage</a> <a href="/wiki/Venture_capital" title="Venture capital">venture capital</a> arm of the SoftBank Group<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-189">[189]</a> The firm focused on early-stage <a href="/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology" title="Information and communications technology">ICT</a> investments – including <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">Artificial Intelligence (AI)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_of_things" title="Internet of things">the internet of things (IoT)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Robotics" title="Robotics">smart robotics</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Ji-young-190">[190]</a> By October 2021, SBVA had backed more than 250 companies in 10 countries with US$1.3 billion fund under management.<a href="#cite_note-technode.global-191">[191]</a> SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA) was founded in 2000 as SoftBank Ventures Korea<a href="#cite_note-Ji-young-190">[190]</a> and began its focus on <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> market<a href="#cite_note-Ji-young-190">[190]</a> and its early-stage ventures.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-189">[189]</a> SBVA’s one of the early investments in South Korea included <a href="/wiki/Nexon" title="Nexon">Nexon Co</a>, now a Korean-Japanese gaming publisher that was the largest <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">IPO</a> in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> for 2011.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-189">[189]</a> SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA) expanded its focus beyond <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> since 2011 and made several notable investments in Southeast Asia,<a href="#cite_note-192">[192]</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Tokopedia" title="Tokopedia">Tokopedia</a>,<a href="#cite_note-193">[193]</a> an Indonesian e-commerce platform, and Carro, Singapore's used-car platform.<a href="#cite_note-194">[194]</a> In 2018, SBVA launched a $300m venture fund ‘China Venture Fund I’,<a href="#cite_note-Ji-young-190">[190]</a> targeting Chinese start-ups,<a href="#cite_note-195">[195]</a> then immediately trailed by ‘SoftBank Acceleration Fund’ with $300M the following year.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-189">[189]</a> With continuous investment across Asia and beyond, the company renamed itself as SoftBank Ventures Asia to reflect its broadened focus on startups in the Asia-Pacific region beyond South Korea, and opened offices in <a href="/wiki/Seoul" title="Seoul">Seoul</a>,<a href="#cite_note-196">[196]</a> <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>. With the company’s extended expertise in <a href="/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology" title="Information and communications technology">ICT</a> investment, SBVA is aiming towards two investment themes, which were ‘technology innovation’ in <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">AI</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Ji-young-190">[190]</a> <a href="/wiki/Robotics" title="Robotics">Robotics</a>, Semiconductor, Mobility, and AR/VR, and ‘market innovation’ in consumer, enterprise, shared economy, healthcare, etc.<a href="#cite_note-technode.global-191">[191]</a> SBVA created $160M ‘future innovation fund’ in March 2021, focusing on AI <a href="/wiki/Startup_company" title="Startup company">start-ups</a><a href="#cite_note-197">[197]</a> and made investment in AI sector including VoyagerX, AI software developer,<a href="#cite_note-Byung-wook-198">[198]</a> Upstage AI, AI solution provider,<a href="#cite_note-Byung-wook-198">[198]</a> and MarqVision, AI-powered <a href="/wiki/Intellectual_property" title="Intellectual property">intellectual property (IP)</a> protection platform.<a href="#cite_note-199">[199]</a> In April 2023, it was known that Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group would sell its early-stage venture capital arm SoftBank Ventures Asia to Singapore-based The Edgeof, a newly formed investment firm led by Son's youngest brother, <a href="/wiki/Taizo_Son" title="Taizo Son">Taizo Son</a>, as SoftBank Group grappled with steep losses in a myriad of investments made around the world.<a href="#cite_note-200">[200]</a> The operation raised governance concerns.<a href="#cite_note-201">[201]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=SoftBank_Group&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 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title="Bank of Yokohama">Concordia Financial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Credit_Saison" title="Credit Saison">Credit Saison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dai-ichi_Life" title="Dai-ichi Life">Dai-ichi Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daiichi_Sankyo" title="Daiichi Sankyo">Daiichi Sankyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daikin" title="Daikin">Daikin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daiwa_House" title="Daiwa House">Daiwa House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daiwa_Securities_Group" title="Daiwa Securities Group">Daiwa Securities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denki_Kagaku_Kogyo" class="mw-redirect" title="Denki Kagaku Kogyo">Denka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denso" title="Denso">Denso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dentsu" title="Dentsu">Dentsu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dai_Nippon_Printing" title="Dai Nippon Printing">DNP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dowa_Holdings" title="Dowa Holdings">Dowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebara_Corporation" title="Ebara Corporation">Ebara</a></li> <li><a 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Front Retailing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JGC_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="JGC Corporation">JGC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Japan_Railway_Company" title="Central Japan Railway Company">JR Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Japan_Railway_Company" title="East Japan Railway Company">JR East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Japan_Railway_Company" title="West Japan Railway Company">JR West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Steel_Works" title="Japan Steel Works">JSW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Tobacco" title="Japan Tobacco">JT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JTEKT" title="JTEKT">JTEKT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kajima" title="Kajima">Kajima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansai_Electric_Power_Company" title="Kansai Electric Power Company">KEPCO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kao_Corporation" title="Kao Corporation">Kao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kawasaki_Heavy_Industries" title="Kawasaki Heavy Industries">Kawasaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KDDI" title="KDDI">KDDI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keio_Corporation" title="Keio Corporation">Keio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keisei_Electric_Railway" title="Keisei Electric Railway">Keisei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keyence" title="Keyence">Keyence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kikkoman" title="Kikkoman">Kikkoman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirin_Company" title="Kirin Company">Kirin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K_Line" title="K Line">K Line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kobe_Steel" title="Kobe Steel">Kobelco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komatsu_Limited" title="Komatsu Limited">Komatsu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konami" title="Konami">Konami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konica_Minolta" title="Konica Minolta">Konica Minolta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kubota" title="Kubota">Kubota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuraray" title="Kuraray">Kuraray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyocera" title="Kyocera">Kyocera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyowa_Hakko_Kirin" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyowa Hakko Kirin">Kyowa Hakko Kirin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marubeni" title="Marubeni">Marubeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maruha_Nichiro" title="Maruha Nichiro">Maruha Nichiro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marui" title="Marui">Marui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matsui_Securities" title="Matsui Securities">Matsui Securities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazda" title="Mazda">Mazda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meidensha" title="Meidensha">Meidensha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meiji_Holdings" title="Meiji Holdings">Meiji Holdings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsui_Engineering_%26_Shipbuilding" title="Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding">MES</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minebea" class="mw-redirect" title="Minebea">Minebea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Chemical_Holdings" class="mw-redirect" title="Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings">Mitsubishi Chemical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Corporation" title="Mitsubishi Corporation">Mitsubishi Corporation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Electric" title="Mitsubishi Electric">Mitsubishi Electric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Estate" title="Mitsubishi Estate">Mitsubishi Estate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries" title="Mitsubishi Heavy Industries">Mitsubishi Heavy Industries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Logistics" title="Mitsubishi Logistics">Mitsubishi Logistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Materials" title="Mitsubishi Materials">Mitsubishi Materials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Motors" title="Mitsubishi Motors">Mitsubishi Motors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsui_%26_Co" class="mw-redirect" title="Mitsui & Co">Mitsui & Co</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsui_Chemicals" title="Mitsui Chemicals">Mitsui Chemicals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsui_Fudosan" title="Mitsui Fudosan">Mitsui Fudosan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsui" title="Mitsui">Mitsui Kinzoku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsumi_Electric" title="Mitsumi Electric">Mitsumi Electric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mizuho_Financial_Group" title="Mizuho Financial Group">Mizuho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsui_O.S.K._Lines" title="Mitsui O.S.K. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor" title="Freescale Semiconductor">Freescale Semiconductor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemalto" title="Gemalto">Gemalto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvell_Technology_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Marvell Technology Group">Marvell Technology Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MediaTek" title="MediaTek">MediaTek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MIPS_Technologies" title="MIPS Technologies">MIPS Technologies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nvidia" title="Nvidia">Nvidia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qualcomm" title="Qualcomm">Qualcomm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qualcomm_Atheros" title="Qualcomm Atheros">Qualcomm Atheros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renesas_Electronics" title="Renesas Electronics">Renesas Electronics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ST-Ericsson" title="ST-Ericsson">ST-Ericsson</a> (joined as <a href="/wiki/Ericsson_Mobile_Platforms" title="Ericsson Mobile Platforms">Ericsson Mobile Platforms</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synaptics" title="Synaptics">Synaptics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mobile_phone" title="Mobile phone">Handset</a> makers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acer_Inc" class="mw-redirect" title="Acer Inc">Acer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcatel_Mobile_Phones" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcatel Mobile Phones">Alcatel Mobile Phones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asus" title="Asus">Asus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaudhary_Group" title="Chaudhary Group">Chaudhary Group</a> (with association of <a href="/wiki/LG" title="LG">LG</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compal_Electronics" title="Compal Electronics">CCI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell" title="Dell">Dell</a></li> <li><a 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title="MOSFET">MOSFET</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_transistor" title="History of the transistor">transistor</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smoke_signal" title="Smoke signal">Smoke signals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_telecommunication" title="History of telecommunication">Telecommunications history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telautograph" title="Telautograph">Telautograph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telegraphy" title="Telegraphy">Telegraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teleprinter" title="Teleprinter">Teleprinter</a> (teletype)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_telephone" title="History of the telephone">Telephone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Telephone_Cases" title="The Telephone Cases">The Telephone Cases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_television" title="History of television">Television</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Digital_television" title="Digital television">digital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Streaming_television" title="Streaming 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Atalla">Mohamed M. Atalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Logie_Baird" title="John Logie Baird">John Logie Baird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Baran" title="Paul Baran">Paul Baran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bardeen" title="John Bardeen">John Bardeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell" title="Alexander Graham Bell">Alexander Graham Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emile_Berliner" title="Emile Berliner">Emile Berliner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee" title="Tim Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Blake_(inventor)" title="Francis Blake (inventor)">Francis Blake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose" title="Jagadish Chandra Bose">Jagadish Chandra Bose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bourseul" title="Charles Bourseul">Charles Bourseul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain" title="Walter Houser Brattain">Walter Houser Brattain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vint_Cerf" title="Vint Cerf">Vint Cerf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Chappe" title="Claude Chappe">Claude Chappe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yogen_Dalal" class="mw-redirect" title="Yogen Dalal">Yogen Dalal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Davis_Jr." title="Daniel Davis Jr.">Daniel Davis Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Davies" title="Donald Davies">Donald Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amos_Dolbear" title="Amos Dolbear">Amos Dolbear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Thomas Edison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_de_Forest" title="Lee de Forest">Lee de Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth" title="Philo Farnsworth">Philo Farnsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Fessenden" title="Reginald Fessenden">Reginald Fessenden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisha_Gray" title="Elisha Gray">Elisha Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside" title="Oliver Heaviside">Oliver Heaviside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hooke" title="Robert Hooke">Robert Hooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erna_Schneider_Hoover" title="Erna Schneider Hoover">Erna Schneider Hoover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Hopkins_(physicist)" title="Harold Hopkins (physicist)">Harold Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gardiner_Greene_Hubbard" title="Gardiner Greene Hubbard">Gardiner Greene Hubbard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Internet_pioneers" title="List of Internet pioneers">Internet pioneers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Kahn" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Kahn">Bob Kahn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawon_Kahng" title="Dawon Kahng">Dawon Kahng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_K._Kao" title="Charles K. Kao">Charles K. Kao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narinder_Singh_Kapany" title="Narinder Singh Kapany">Narinder Singh Kapany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr" title="Hedy Lamarr">Hedy Lamarr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Landell_de_Moura" title="Roberto Landell de Moura">Roberto Landell de Moura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Innocenzo_Manzetti" title="Innocenzo Manzetti">Innocenzo Manzetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi" title="Guglielmo Marconi">Guglielmo Marconi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe" title="Robert Metcalfe">Robert Metcalfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Meucci" title="Antonio Meucci">Antonio Meucci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Morse" title="Samuel Morse">Samuel Morse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jun-ichi_Nishizawa" title="Jun-ichi Nishizawa">Jun-ichi Nishizawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Grafton_Page" title="Charles Grafton Page">Charles Grafton Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radia_Perlman" title="Radia Perlman">Radia Perlman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Stepanovich Popov">Alexander Stepanovich Popov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tivadar_Pusk%C3%A1s" title="Tivadar Puskás">Tivadar Puskás</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Reis" title="Johann Philipp Reis">Johann Philipp Reis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Shannon" title="Claude Shannon">Claude Shannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Almon_Brown_Strowger" title="Almon Brown Strowger">Almon Brown Strowger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Sutton_(inventor)" title="Henry Sutton (inventor)">Henry Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Sumner_Tainter" title="Charles Sumner Tainter">Charles Sumner Tainter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" title="Nikola Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_Tissot" title="Camille Tissot">Camille Tissot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Vail" title="Alfred Vail">Alfred Vail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_A._Watson" title="Thomas A. 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