DeepSeek and Masa Son have lessons for StargateUS tech giants are in panic mode as Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's latest model surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT on Apple’s US App Store. President Do...
Why Nvidia’s Jensen Huang regrets ignoring advice from Japan’s 2nd richest man Son, who championed giants like Gates, JobsSoftBank is set to build Japan's most powerful AI supercomputer. It will use Nvidia's new Blackwell design chips. The supercomputer will su...
Gopal Srinivasan on top new age cos, moral hazard & hedge funds vs VCs“There was a whole hedge fund mindset that had come in some select companies, where people were just trading the next valuation round regar...
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son had a bad 2019. Here’s what he can buy in 2020Tesla's a dreamy idea. A cult-like status among investors and customers. A megalomaniac for a leader who eschews authority. And chronic los...
Suits & Sayings: ET's roundup of corporate murmursET’s weekly roundup of the wackiest whispers and murmurs in corporate corridors & policy parlours.
Here's how Saudi cash could bring on the VC crashGiven rising interest rates, the reality of Saudi money may be what finally deflates the startup bubble.
Softbank, Yahoo JV launches digital payment service in Japan with PaytmWith this partnership the company will be installing QRcode based payment solutions to digitise consumer retail payments in Japan by the se...
SoftBank puts the flip in Flipkart with Walmart deal: GadflySoftBank Group Corp. needs money -- its balance sheet is debt heavy and a planned IPO this year of its Japanese telecom company will only g...
Billionaire Son bets on a world without car crashesWhile Son's seemingly random holdings perplex analysts, one consistent theme is his backing of the ride-hailing giants. SoftBank is among t...
Inside Masayoshi Son's eccentric, relentless deal spreeIn deal after deal, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son presses to meet founders face to face and encourage them to take more money than they want.
What led to the SoftBank-Snapdeal falloutAs SoftBank nears a deal to sell what was its largest portfolio company in India, we take a deep dive into how Snapdeal's valuation fell dr...
Uber's Kalanick should fear this 59-year-old billionaireChen foreshadowed the fundraising a month ago when she wrote that SoftBank would lead the deal, which at the time was being considered by C...
Nurturing portfolio companies is SoftBank's top priority: Alok Sama, President of SoftBank Group International"We have over the last two years invested $2 billion in India and as I scan our growth stage investment portfolio globally, that makes Indi...
Indian startups will go through a grind, but it won't be a winner-takes-all market: Nikesh Arora"It was not a fallout of an ego clash. Founders have strong personalities and it's very hard for them to give up their ways,".
Indian e-tailers must rethink deep discount model: Nikesh Arora, SoftBankThe COO of the Japan-based telecom and Internet giant said that 2015 witnessed huge funding going into start-ups, but it also saw firms bei...
Education is over-rated, says Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar SharmaVijay Shekhar Sharma, the force behind Paytm, graduated only to make his mother happy. He learnt far more in the rough and tumble of entrep...
Past 3 months have been such a blast: Nikesh Arora, VC, SoftBankNikesh Arora, quit Google to join Masayoshi Son as vice chairman and CEO of SoftBank Internet and Media in July this year.