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| Type | Public KK (TYO: 9984) |
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| Founded |  Tokyo, Japan (1981) |
| 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 |
| Industry | Telecommunications Internet |
| Revenue | ▲ ¥ 2,776,169 million JPY (FY 2007) |
| Net income | ▲ ¥ 108,625 million JPY (FY 2007) |
| Subsidiaries | SoftBank Mobile Softbank Telecom Yahoo! Japan (~40%) Softbank BB |
| Website | www.softbank.co.jp |
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 capitalisation 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.
SoftBank is the official carrier of the iPhone 3G for Japan.1
Timeline
- 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. 2
- 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.3
- June 4, 2008 - SoftBank Mobile announced partnership with Apple and will be bringing the iPhone (3G) to Japan later in 2008 4
References
- ^ 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. Retrieved on 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 on 2008-06-07.
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- SoftBank Corporation
- Masayoshi Son AXA Talents (www.axa-im-talents.com) (August 1, 2006)
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