SoftBank could soon buy Renee James’ Ampere chip company for about $6.5B
Ampere, the semiconductor business founded by former Intel exec Renee James, is reportedly on the cusp of selling itself to ...
KDDi's Mobile Business Appears to Have Stabilized With Growth from Business and Lawson Synergies
Although Rakuten has built a fourth mobile network in Japan it does not yet have the scale to generate positive free cash flow. KDDI maintained net debt of between 0.2 and 1.0 times EBITDA during the ...
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What Trump’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Could Mean for Tech
The U.S. should start a sovereign wealth fund and maybe it should invest in TikTok, President Trump suggested earlier this ...
OpenAI partners with Korea’s Kakao after inking SoftBank Japanese JV
On the heels of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek making a huge splash in OpenAI's American backyard, OpenAI is expanding in Asia, ...
SoftBank’s Son Has a New Golden Boy: OpenAI’s Sam Altman
Two years ago, global tech investor Masayoshi Son was at a low point. The SoftBank Group CEO had missed out on the generative artificial revolution taking place, even after flooding the tech market ...
OpenAI in Talks for Huge Investment Round
That is the valuation being discussed for OpenAI as the ChatGPT maker enters talks to raise up to $40 billion in its latest funding round. SoftBank would lead the round and is in discussions to invest ...