SFTBF News and Press, Softbank Corp Fgn From 03/30/21

Last year, Nvidia (NVDA) agreed to acquire SoftBank's ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) Arm chip unit for $40B. While that deal crawls through the regulatory hurdles, Arm is rolling out its first new chip architecture in a decade.Armv9 architecture was designed to address the demands for high securi...

Japanese tech giant SoftBank ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) is reportedly looking to add as much as 100,000 square feet of office space in Miami, Florida, to its existing 14,000 square feet footprint.Earlier this year, SoftBank said its funds would invest $100M in Miami area companies, citing the 40% ...

The top venture capital investments last week continued to focus on areas that flourished during the pandemic: food delivery and gaming. Chipotle joins $500M bet on Nuro's autonomous delivery vehiclesChipotle (CMG) participated in a $500M Series C round for autonomous delivery startup Nu...

KDDI has a strong track record of improving profitability, sustaining free cash flow generation and allocating excess capital to shareholder returns. Our assessment is that future shareholder returns will remain predictable with an uptrend given management's focus and track record. ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) looks set to become one of the fastest growing trends this decade. Statista: AI global software revenues are forecast to increase about 5x between end 2020 and end 2025. Others forecast AI to grow at a CAGR of 42% to 53%. A comparison of some popular A...

Chase Coleman’s 13F portfolio value increased from $35.5B to $39B this quarter. Tiger Global increased Uber Technologies, Snowflake, and DocuSign while decreasing Sunrun, Anaplan, MongoDB, and Twilio during the quarter. The largest three positions are JD.com, Microsoft, and...

Baidu (BIDU), Tencent ([[TCEHY]],[[TCTZF]]), Didi (DIDI), and SoftBank ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) were among 12 companies fined $77,000 each by China's State Administration for Market Regulation for violating unspecified antitrust rules. Tencent says it will rectify its operations and provide...

SoftBank ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) Vision Fund 2 invests $120M in Spain's Jobandtalent, a digital temp staffing startup looking to break into the U.S. market.The Series D round brings total funding for the startup up to nearly $370M.Jobandtalent also received about $100M in debt financing from Bl...

Moody's raises SoftBank's ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) outlook from stable to negative, citing the Japanese tech giant's ongoing asset sale program launched early last year.Under the latest sale, SoftBank has now bought back $2.5B of dollar and euro bonds, completing the tender offer announced in Fe...

Is Pacific Biosciences The Best Biotech Stock To Buy In The Stock Market Today? In the biotech world of genome sequencing, Illumina ( NASDAQ: ILMN ) may be the undisputed market leader. But when it comes to shareholder returns in the past year, Pacific Biosciences of California ...