Masayoshi Son owes much of his success to an incredibly prescient dot-com era bet on Alibaba. The SoftBank chief first invested $20 million in Jack Ma's ecommerce upstart in 2000, when it was just ...

When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in 2017 at SoftBank’s offices in Tokyo, the younger entrepreneur lacked a project large enough to tempt the tech billionaire to get his cheque ...

Jack Ma, Alibaba founder, today announced his departure from SoftBank board. A visibly sad Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank said Ma and him will remain friends for the rest of their lives. Son ...

Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming U.S. President Donald Trump's big new AI push ... We are the same animal," Son said of Alibaba's founder Jack Ma. Ma replied: "He probably has the biggest ...

Huang was speaking at Nvidia’s AI Summit in Tokyo where he also announced several AI collaborations with Softbank.

Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son lead talks over a record deal to make the Japanese investor the ...

Masa first encountered Steve Jobs in the mid-1980s at the annual Comdex trade fair in Las Vegas. Sometime in the summer of 1998, they had their first serious conversation under a cherry tree at the ...

As the founder and CEO of Softbank, a Japanese investment holding firm, Masayoshi Son is known for making big bets. He was an early investor in Jack Ma’s Alibaba and was also an early investor ...

Among the visitors in mid-December was Masayoshi Son, the Japanese founder ... The first prominent victim was Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Masa’s long-time partner. After criticizing China’s financial ...

Last year, SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son had stated plans of raising a new $100 billion fund every two to three years, and invest around $50 billion each year. Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar ...

OpenAI‘s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son during a news conference earlier this month at the White House. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by ...