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|company_name = SoftBank Corp.<br />ソフトバンク株式会社 |
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Revision as of 18:40, 7 April 2011
SOFTBANK WILL RIP YOU OFF!! DO NOT SIGN A CONTRACT WITH THEM, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE AMERICAN!!
Company type | Public KK (TYO: 9984) |
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Industry | Telecommunications Internet |
Founded | Tokyo, Japan (1981) |
Founder | Masayoshi Son |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Masayoshi Son (孫正義), Founder, President & CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Director Ken Miyauchi, Director Kazuhiko Kasai, Director Masahiro Inoue, Director Ronald Fisher, Director Jun Murai, Director Tadashi Yanai, Director Mitsuo Sano, Full-time Corporate Auditor |
Revenue | ¥ 2,776,169 million JPY (FY 2007) |
1,303,801,000,000 yen (2018) | |
¥ 108,625 million JPY (FY 2007) | |
Total assets | 31,180,466,000,000 yen (2018) |
Subsidiaries | SoftBank Mobile SOFTBANK TELECOM Yahoo! Japan (~40%) SoftBank BB |
Website | SoftBank English Website |
SoftBank Corp. (ソフトバンク株式会社, Sofutobanku Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese telecommunications and media corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-Commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses.
SoftBank was established in Tokyo, Japan on September 3, 1981, and had a market capitalization of approximately US$32.8 billion at 28 February 2006.
SoftBank's corporate profile includes various other companies such as Japanese broadband company Cable & Wireless IDC, cable company BB-Serve, and gaming company GungHo Online Entertainment. Additionally, it has various partnerships in Japanese subsidiaries of foreign companies such as Yahoo!, E-Trade and Morningstar. SBI Group is a Japanese financial services company that began in 1999 as a branch of SoftBank.[1]
SoftBank is currently the only official carrier of the iPhone for Japan.[2]
Timeline
- 1995 - Bought COMDEX from The Interface Group
- 1999 - Allowed organizers of COMDEX to restrict admission of media, creating a spiraling effect
- 2001 - Sold COMDEX to Key3Media, a spin-off of Ziff Davis
- January 28, 2005 - SoftBank becomes the owner of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball team.
- March 17, 2006 - SoftBank announces its agreement to buy Vodafone Japan, giving it a stake in Japan's $78 billion mobile market.
- Early April, 2006 - SoftBank completed the purchase of 23% of Betfair, an Internet betting exchange.
- October 1, 2006 - Vodafone Japan changes its corporate name, mobile phone brand name, and its mobile phone domain name to SoftBank Mobile, SoftBank, and [mb.softbank.jp] respectively.[3]
- January 28, 2008 - It was announced that SoftBank and Tiffany & Co. collaborated in making a limited 10 model-only cellphone. This cellphone contains more than 400 platinum diamond, totalling more than 20 karat. The cost is said to be more than 100,000,000 yen.[4]
- June 4, 2008 - SoftBank Mobile announced partnership with Apple and brought the iPhone (3G) to Japan later in 2008 [5]
- February 3, 2010 - SoftBank acquired 13.7% in Ustream with the option to increase shares to 30% by July 2011.[6]
- October 1, 2010 - Ayumi Hamasaki becomes the commercial spokesperson.[7]
Notes
- ^ SBI Group, Corporate history
- ^ SoftBank reaches deal with Apple to sell iPhone handsets in Japan this year, International Herald Tribune.
- ^ ITmedia +D モバイル:ボーダフォン、メールのドメイン名も「ソフトバンク」へ──10月1日から
- ^ "上戸彩:超高価ケータイ「ないしょにしてね」" (in Japanese). Sports Nippon. Archived from the original on 2008-01-30. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
- ^ "念願のiPhoneを獲得した舞台裏 ソフトバンク、トラウマ乗り越える" (in Japanese). 2008-06-06. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
- ^ Japan Today Softbank profit soars; buys stake in Ustream, February 3, 2010
- ^ Yahoo Japan
References
External links
- SoftBank Corporation
- Masayoshi Son AXA Talents (www.axa-im-talents.com) (August 1, 2006)