Japan's Softbank is Softbank, and its boss is Masayoshi Son of Korean descent. At first, it was the major shareholder of Yahoo Japan (the largest comprehensive website in Japan, equivalent to China Sina+Taobao+jiayuan). Masayoshi Son is a Korean born in Japan, and his date of birth is August 1957+0 1 day, 2008. He founded the software bank in Tokyo, Japan on 198 1. On February 28th, 2006, its total share price was about $32.8 billion. (It was not until 199 1 that Masayoshi Son was officially naturalized as a Japanese, so in 199 1, he could not be called a Japanese. )
Softbank group, referred to as Softbank for short, is a comprehensive venture capital company dedicated to IT industry investment. It was founded by Sun Zhengyi on September 3, 198 1 and listed in Japan on 1994. Softbank's business includes broadband network, fixed telephone, e-commerce, Internet service, VoIP, technical service, holding, finance, media and marketing. More than 600 companies have invested in the world, making it one of the top 500 enterprises in the world. 202 1165438+1On October 8th, Softbank released its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal year 20021. The financial report shows that Softbank's net sales in the second quarter were10.5 trillion yen, and its net loss in the second quarter was 397.94 billion yen.
Softbank Co., Ltd. is a leading telecommunications and media company in Japan. Its business includes broadband network, fixed telephone, e-commerce, Internet service, VoIP, technical service, holding, finance, media and marketing. There are many different companies in the software bank, such as Cable &; Wireless IDC, cable TV company BB-Serve and game company GungHo Online Entertainment. In addition, Softbank has cooperative relations with Japanese subsidiaries of many foreign companies, such as Yahoo! , E*Trade and Morningstar. In June 2006, many media reported that Softbank and Apple were developing 3G mobile phones with built-in iPod players for the Japanese market. A year later, the iPhone came out, but it was not sold in the Japanese market because of the incompatibility of 2G networks. Its upgraded versions of iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS were launched in Japan in 2008 and 2009.
SoftBank's greatest impact on Japanese society should be two factors: making the Japanese ordinary people accustomed to the life of relying on the Internet (Yahoo Japan), bringing a free operation mode to Japan's service industry (the previous online free application has now evolved into an application for NTT optical cable to cost tens of thousands of yen; And free calls between mobile phones are gradually accepted by two other operators: DOCOMO and AU).