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Masayoshi Son now owes SoftBank $5.2 billion on side dealsMasayoshi Son is now personally on the hook for about $5.2 billion on side deals he set up at SoftBank Group Corp. to boost his compensatio...
SoftBank ex-COO to lead Chinese phenom Shein’s Latam driveClaure, once a lieutenant to SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, will lead the region’s operations, according to a statement Tuesday. The forme...
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...
Crypto breaks ranks on Russia; Rajeev Misra to oversee SoftBank’s Latin American teamLarge crypto companies such as Coinbase and Binance are breaking ranks with mainstream finance, saying they don’t plan on “preemptively” ba...
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...
A $5 billion SoftBank fund is 10% crypto, LatAm director saysThe managing director of SoftBank’s Latin America Fund said approximately 10% of one of the firm’s $5 billion funds is invested in crypto-r...
SoftBank leads $680 million funding round in NFT fantasy soccer game SorareFounded in 2018, Sorare is an online game where players buy officially licensed cards representing soccer players and build teams which pla...
Visa says spending on crypto-linked cards topped $1 bn in first half this yearInvestor sentiment on cryptocurrencies has somewhat soured recently, with regulatory crackdowns in China and elsewhere. Bitcoin, the world'...
SoftBank pulls out of Latin America partnership with Oyo HotelsSoftBank says the decision was made jointly with Oyo due to challenges brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, and that it would no long...
SoftBank partners with Oyo in Latam in move for more oversightSoftBank said it started the partnership with Oyo in Latin America in 2019 and the investment has been recently formalized with the creatio...
Softbank-Bharti green energy JV taps Brookfield for up to $600 million fundsThe need for funds is immediate and so they are open to various structures, said a global clean tech investor. However, most industry parti...
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...
SoftBank’s international arm cuts roughly 10% of staffSoftBank said this week it expects a wider net loss for the fiscal year ended in March, because of deeper struggles at one of its largest i...
Amit Jain to now independently handle APAC region of UberWhen Uber announced that Jain will be the regional GM of Apac in May this year, he reported to Andrew Macdonald, who led Latin America and ...
Softbank reviving Ola-Uber India merger talks?Source in the know of the development has confirmed that senior executives from both companies have met several times over the past several...
Uber's Khosrowshahi to make first India visit as CEO in FebruaryKhosrowshahi will visit Japan and India during the week of Feb. 19 to meet business and government leaders, said Chris Brummitt, a spokesma...
As India gets expensive, Uber looks at Latin AmericaUber operates in more than 65 cities in Latin America, and Macdonald’s planning to double that by the end of next year.