SoftBank Corp. ソフトバンク株式会社
Type	Public (TYO: 9984 )
Founded	Tokyo, Japan (1981)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Masayoshi Son (孫正義), Founder, President & CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Director Ken Miyauchi, Director Kazuhiko Kasai, Director Masahiro Inoue, Director Ronald Fisher, Director Jun Murai, Director Tadashi Yanai, Director Mitsuo Sano, Full-time Corporate Auditor
Industry	electronic commerce
Products	various
Revenue	$1.53 billion (January 1, 2005)
Subsidiaries	SoftBank Mobile Softbank Telecom Yahoo! Japan Softbank BB
Slogan	N/A
Website	www.softbank.co.jp

SoftBank Corp. (ソフトバンク株式会社, Sofutobanku Kabushiki-gaisha^?) (TYO: 9984 ) is a leading Japanese telecommunications and media corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-Commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses. Image File history File links Softbank. ... A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by relatively few individuals. ... The Tokyo Stock Exchange ), or TSE, is one of the largest stock exchange markets in the world by monetary volume located in Tokyo, Japan, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. ...   , literally Eastern capital) is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, the home of the Japanese Imperial Family, and the de facto[1] capital of Japan. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫正義, Son Masayoshi; Korean hangul: 손정의; revised: Son Jeongeui; McCune-Reischauer: Son ChŏngÅ­i; born August 11, 1957 in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, Japan) is a third generation Korean-Japanese and the founder and current chief executive officer of Softbank Capital, and the chief executive officer of Vodafone K... For the computer game previously called Entrepreneur, see The Corporate Machine. ... A chairperson is the political correct term for the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... A Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or Chief Executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency. ... In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ... Tadashi Yanai (柳井正, Yanai Tadashi) is the founder and president Fast Retailing, of which of Uniqlo (ユニクロ, unique clothing) is a subsidiary. ... A financial audit, or more accurately, an audit of financial statements, is the examination by an independent third party of the financial statements of a company or other organisation, resulting in the publication of an independent opinion on whether or not those financial statements are relevant, accurate and complete. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... In business, a subsidiary is a company controlled by another company or corporation. ... SoftBank Mobile Corp. ... Japan Telecom Co. ... Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社; YafÅ« Kabushiki Gaisha) (TYO: 4689) is a Japanese affiliate of Yahoo!. The head office is in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Minato, Tokyo. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... The Tokyo Stock Exchange ), or TSE, is one of the largest stock exchange markets in the world by monetary volume located in Tokyo, Japan, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. ... Corporate redirects here. ... Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ... Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... Electronic commerce, EC, e-commerce or ecommerce consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of thinking mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Marketing is a social and managerial function that attempts to create, expand and maintain a collection of customers. ...

SoftBank was established in Tokyo, Japan on September 3, 1981, and had a market capitalisation of approximately US$32.8 billion at 28 February 2006. September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, mkt. ...

SoftBank's corporate profile includes various other companies such as Japanese broadband company Cable & Wireless IDC, cable company BB-Serve, and gaming company GungHo Online Entertainment. Additionally, it has various partnerships in Japanese subsidiaries of foreign companies such as Yahoo!, E*Trade and Morningstar. Yahoo! Inc. ... E*TRADE NYSE: ET is a financial services company based in New York City. ... Morningstar, Inc. ...

Various media outlets have reported that Softbank and Apple Computer are jointly developing a 3G mobile phone with a built-in iPod player for the Japanese market.[1] [2] [3] Apple Inc. ...

Timeline

• January 28, 2005 SoftBank becomes the owner of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball team.
• March 17, 2006 SoftBank announces its agreement to buy Vodafone Japan, giving it a stake in Japan's $78 billion mobile market.
• Early April, 2006 Softbank completed the purchase of 23% of Betfair, an Internet betting exchange.
• October 1, 2006 Vodafone Japan changes its corporate name, mobile phone brand name, and its mobile phone domain name to SoftBank Mobile, SoftBank, and softbank.ne.jp respectively. [4]

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External links

• SoftBank Corporation
• Masayoshi Son AXA Talents (www.axa-im-talents.com) (August 1st 2006)