SFTBF News and Press, Softbank Corp Fgn From 10/03/20

Last week, SoftBank ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) Robotics launched automation analytics software for its floor-cleaning robot Whiz, which launched last November for U.S. customers.Whiz Connect combines telemetry from Whiz units with data analytics and machine learning (via the cloud-connected B...

Sources tell CNBC's David Faber that SoftBank ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) might again be behind an unusual, $200M spike in call options yesterday morning.The options were for tech giants Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet."A number of sources in the derivative markets on major trading markets ...

Amr, the chip unit being sold to Nvidia ([[NVDA]] +1.0%) by SoftBank ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]), announces new computing solutions "to accelerate autonomous decision-making with safety capability across automotive and industrial applications."The solutions include the Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, Ar...

SoftBank Group ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) finalizes the numbers around its secondary offering of SoftBank Corp (SOBKY) shares , revealing SBG disposed of 1.03B shares that were obtained through the exercise of a green shoe option.After the offering, SoftBank Group still held 1.9B shares of th...

SoftBank ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) Robotics will launch the food service robot Servi in Japan in January. Servi will cost $950/month for a three-year plan, excluding tax.Servi, which was developed by California-based Bear Robotics, can carry layers of trays and navigate restaurants using 3D ...

It turns out that Goldman recently profited $100 million from its own buying of call options on Tesla shares. It also turns out that Goldman (and Morgan) a while back also lent Elon Musk several hundred million dollars against his holdings of Tesla stock. I have no evidence to act...

Bloomberg sources say SoftBank ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) and Benchmark have advised Uber (UBER) CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to find more investors for the company's self-driving unit and reconsider strategy.SoftBank and Benchmark are Uber's largest investors.Uber's self-driving unit is expected to...

It’s hard to avoid SPACs. Everyone has one, Nikola (NKLA) is looking more and more like a fraud, and Chamath just launched three more. It’s easy to dismiss SPACs as a fad and the companies that they take public as immature, risky, and dangerous. But great companies can go public...

SoftBank is a public-listed private equity firm and has stakes in hundreds of companies across technology, healthcare, and financial sectors. We determined the best method to value the company’s equity value is by identifying the net asset value of its investment holdings and d...

At the peak of bubbles, it is often a race among corporations to see how they can outdo each other in making sillier moves. Alongside that, slowly but surely, the reluctant value investors get sucked into the "this time is different because of ...," whatever the end of that sentence may be. ...