SOFTBANK Corp. has emerged as one of the world's leading Internet market forces. Through its ownership position in over 130 Internet companies and its unique management concept, it is able to create market synergies for its family of companies on a global scale. Its activities encompass distribution, publishing, Internet media platforms, a broad range of e-commerce businesses, and joint ventures with companies including Microsoft, Cisco, Yahoo!, the Nasdaq, and many other market leaders. SoftBank is the largest shareholder in leading Internet companies including Yahoo!, E*TRADE and ZDNet, and the market cap of their publicly held companies alone is over $125 billion. SOFTBANK subsidiaries include SoftBank Venture Capital and SoftBank Capital Partners, which together comprise a $1.5 billion venture fund for technology companies.
Its no wonder 9984 continues to move forward...their current mkt cap very similar to the mkt caps of their stable co's...so whats the value of the 100's of co's that they own stakes in but havent gone public yet?...alot of potential there if u ask me<ggg>.
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