SoftBank overseas business chief exits in latest churnSoftbank's recent exits underscore the dominance of its chief executive, Masayoshi Son, amid a time of strategic shift for the company.
22 Jun, 2022, 11.41 AM IST
SoftBank’s Latin America Fund suffers key departuresSoftBank Group Corp.’s Shu Nyatta and Paulo Passoni, two of the three managing partners at the SoftBank Group Corp.’s Latin America Fund, s...
18 Apr, 2022, 09.01 AM IST
SoftBank shuffles Latin American fund team to report to Rajeev MisraThe change comes after the January departure of Chief Operating Officer and SoftBank Group International Chief Executive Officer Marcelo Cl...
04 Mar, 2022, 08.26 AM IST
SoftBank's woes are mountingPlunging profit, wobbly shares and a key executive’s departure after a bitter pay dispute beget the question: Will SoftBank rein in its fre...
11 Feb, 2022, 02.35 PM IST
Google bets a billion on Bharti Airtel; Zomato backs two more startupsGoogle will make an equity investment of $700 million in Bharti Airtel at Rs 734 a share. The $300 million go towards scaling Airtel’s offe...
29 Jan, 2022, 03.20 PM IST
SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure exits; departure sparked by pay disputeMarcelo Claure's deputy, Michel Combes - a French former telecoms executive - has been appointed chief executive of SoftBank Group Internat...
28 Jan, 2022, 02.59 PM IST
SoftBank COO to step down, as per media reportsThe potential exit comes after a media report citing multiple sources said last month that Claure was seeking about $2 billion in compensat...
28 Jan, 2022, 07.47 AM IST
SoftBank strategy chief Katsunori Sago to step downThe departure of one of CEO Masayoshi Son's key lieutenants comes after power consolidated around Vision Fund chief Rajeev Misra and Chief ...
05 Mar, 2021, 05.39 PM IST
SoftBank launches $100 mn fund investing in 'people of colour'Named the "Opportunity Growth Fund", its total initial size is less than a typical single investment by the $100 billion Vision Fund, which...
03 Jun, 2020, 09.26 PM IST
SoftBank Vision Fund head's pay doubled last year despite massive lossesSoftBank Vision Fund's head, Rajeev Misra, saw his total pay for the past business year more than double to roughly $15 million, even as th...
29 May, 2020, 09.16 AM IST
WeWork names real estate veteran Sandeep Mathrani its new ceoWeWork said the new CEO will report to Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure, an executive at SoftBank Group Corp., which committed billions of...
03 Feb, 2020, 12.04 PM IST
Days after firing 2,400 people, WeWork boss shares photo of $100 pasta dinnerWeWork Chairman Marcelo Claure has left a bad taste in the mouth.
25 Nov, 2019, 03.05 PM IST
WeWork says job cuts to begin ‘in earnest’ this week in U.S.After the company’s valuation plummeted from $47 billion to about $8 billion, WeWork is seeking to cut costs and show a path to profitabili...
19 Nov, 2019, 09.10 AM IST
SoftBank picking its battles with US national security committeeSoftBank likes to take large stakes in companies working on artificial intelligence, data analytics, financial services and self-driving ca...
12 Apr, 2019, 10.35 AM IST
Rajeev Misra & Marcelo Claure's power clash at top of SoftBank puts Son's vision in questionMarcelo Claure clashed from the start with Rajeev Misra, who oversees SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund and many of Masayoshi Son’s most ...
11 Feb, 2019, 10.21 AM IST
T-Mobile, Sprint CEOs turn from bitter rivals to kindred spiritsT-Mobile and Sprint said they expected to complete their deal no later than the first half of 2019, an ambitious goal given the intense U.S...
30 Apr, 2018, 12.58 PM IST
Brightstar acquires majority stake in Bharti Group’s Beetel TeletechBharti Enterprises Vice Chairman Rakesh Bharti Mittal said that the Indian mobile market is entering the next phase of growth, which will b...
15 Jul, 2014, 11.47 AM IST