(Reuters) – Japan’s SoftBank Group has proposed to offer free electricity, after 25 years, to International Solar Alliance (IS) member-countries that sign power purchase agreements (PPA), chief executive Masayoshi Son said at a renewable energy Read more…
SoftBank announced that it has completed what it claims is the world’s first connection test in a commercial environment for NIDD (non-IP data delivery), which has been newly defined by the 3GPP for NB-IoT to enhance Read more…
SoftBank, Synchronoss Technologies and TBCASoft have partnered on a proof of concept (PoC) for a new cross-carrier mobile payments service based on the RCS global messaging standard and TBCASoft’s cross-carrier blockchain platform. Earlier this year, Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s SoftBank Group reported a 49% jump in quarterly profit on Monday, boosted by the sale of its stake in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart in the first public divestment by the conglomerate’s Read more…
PayPay – a joint venture established last month by SoftBank and Yahoo Japan – announced that it will team up with Indian digital payment company Paytm to launch QR-code payment services in Japan in the Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group chief executive Masayoshi Son blasted Japan on Thursday for not allowing ride-sharing services, calling it “stupid” and saying the country was lagging overseas rivals in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI). “Ride-sharing Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group is increasing its stake in Yahoo Japan through a $2 billion, three-way deal with US firm Altaba to deepen ties with the internet heavyweight ahead of an IPO of its Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp said on Wednesday it is selling its roughly 20 percent stake in Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart to Walmart Inc, the first public divestment by its Vision Fund. Walmart said Read more…
Ericsson announced that Japanese operator SoftBank has implemented a new method for radio access network design from Ericsson based on machine intelligence. The service groups cells in clusters and takes statistics from cell overlapping and Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group chief executive Masayoshi Son, founder of the world’s largest private equity fund, said on Tuesday a second Vision Fund would be set up in the near future, with funds from Read more…
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