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| Company name | SoftBank Corp.
ソフトバンク株式会社 | | Company type | Public KK (Tyo - 9984) | | Industry | Telecommunications
Internet | | 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|revenue=(+) ¥ 2,776,169 million JPY (FY 2007) | | Revenue | (+) ¥ 2,776,169 million JPY (FY 2007) | | Net income | (+) ¥ 108,625 million JPY (FY 2007) | | Subsidiary | SoftBank Mobile
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Yahoo! Japan (~40%)
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|} is a 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.
SoftBank was established in Tokyo, Japan on September 3, 1981, and had a market capitalization of approximately US$32.8 billion at 28 February 2006.
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. SBI Group is a Japanese financial services company that began in 1999 as a branch of SoftBank.
SoftBank is currently the only official carrier of the iPhone for Japan.
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