Thanks, Andrea, here is the address of Softbanks investor relation page in English:
softbank.co.jp
Additionally I found another list (in PC Magazine) of softbanks investments but this time giving a short overview of what the companies do.
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Softbank Investments
Softbank Inc., has made strategic infra-structure investments in the U.S., either directly or through its venture capital affiliates.
Following is a list of these investments:
911 Entertainment -- Creates and distributes interactive music CDs.
abuzz -- Develops knowledge management and front-office automation software for information-intensive Fortune 1000 companies.
Academic Systems -- Supplies intermediated learning in two and four-year universities.
Andromedia -- Provides network measurement tools for the Internet.
Art Technology Group -- Develops commerce-enabling Internet products.
Asymetrix -- Supplies easy-to-use Internet authoring and development tools.
BackWeb -- Provides advanced broadcast server technology for the World Wide Web.
Career Central -- Provides recruiting services via the World Wide Web and e-mail.
Concentric Network -- Provides tailored network solutions for the electronic commerce and Internet/Intranet markets.
Connected -- Provides online backup and data management.
CyberCash -- Provides secure financial transaction services over the
Internet, including secure credit-card transactions, electronic checks, and micro transactions.
Decisive Technology -- Develops tools for surveys and market research activities.
Differential -- Provides a digital Fed Ex-like solution to guarantee delivery of large files over the Internet.
Digimarc -- Provides digital watermarking technology to protect image copyrights across the Internet.
Dimensional Media Associates -- Provides volumetric, high-resolution, full-color computerized displays via a proprietary process known as HDVD.
E*Trade Group -- Provides on-line brokerage technology and services for the Internet.
Electric Classifieds -- Provides online classified advertising services.
Electric Communities -- Provides online commerce and security technologies.
Email Publishing -- Provides products to publish information via electronic mail.
ENGAGE Games Online -- Offers online users the ability to participate in multi-player games and other entertainment through an intuitive, 2D interface based on Windows 95.
eShare Technologies -- Provides easy-to-install, easy-to-use, live chat software for World Wide Web sites and corporate Intranets
Express Plus -- Distributes video games throughout the United States.
FastParts -- Serves as an electronic exchange for the trading of circuit board parts.
Firefly Networks - Provides a collaborative filtering agent (the "Firefly" network) for the World Wide Web.
GeoCities -- Provides electronic mail service and free home page space to end users who organize themselves into online communities.
GT Interactive Software --Publishes PC and console-based games and educational software.
Harmonix Music Systems –- Develops software that lets users play insturments over the Internet.
I/Pro-- Tracks and provides demographic profiles of visitors to World Wide Web sites.
I-Search -- Fevelops and markets processing and database services designed to significantly improve the means by which job seekers and employers find each other.
InfoBeat -- Provides free news, weather, sports, stocks and entertainment information to individuals via email.
Interactive Search -- Assists in electronic corporate recruiting.
Internet Profiles -- Provides services and software for analysis of Web site usage.
InterTrust Technologies -- Implements peer-to-peer architecture for secure electronic commerce.
Intervista Software -- Creates three-dimensional worlds and environment for the Internet.
Investools -- Provides high-quality,independent financial research for the individual investor.
Kinesoft Development -- Develops tools to port console based games to Windows 95-based PCs; performs such ports.
Kingston Technology -- Designs and manufactures memory, processor, networking, and storage upgrades.
Launch Media -- Publishes Launch CD-ROM and mylaunch.com.
LiveWorld Productions -- Specializes in managing and distributing on-line community programming which brings together people in shared social, cultural, educational and recreational experiences
Mainspring Communications -- Provides solution-oriented access to information, referrals, and communications about deploying Internettechnologies.
Multex Systems -- Aggregates brokerage research data for investment research and evaluation. It is also the exclusive re-distributor of third-party research information for Bloomberg LLC.
OnLive! Technologies -- Develops software that allows groups of people to talk with one another -- with their own voices -- in 3D virtual environments.
Onsale -- Provides a forum for online auctions of merchandise.
PersonaLogic -- Develops and delivers personalized decision guides.
PlanetU -- Provides a paperless, scalable, secure solution for couponing and affiliate program management.
PointCast -- Broadcasts personalized news, stock quotes, weather, etc. directly to computers that connect to the Internet.
Reachcast -- Develops OCR-based tools for the World Wide Web.
Red Herring -- Serves as a provider of business information for the technology and entertainment industries.
SaveSmart -- Enables merchants with VeriFone Internet payment terminals.
Sega Entertainment -- Provides versions of Sega games that have been adapted for use on PCs.
ShareWave -- Develops technology to enable the PC to act as a server inthe home.
SOFTBANK Interactive Marketing -- Cyber-ad sales organization created by the merger of Interactive Marketing, Network One, and the Ziff-Davis cyber-ad sales force.
Sonnet Financial -- Provides an automated discount foreign exchange service used by CFOs, corporate treasureres, and cash managers to move money across borders.
The Fourth Communications Network -- Develops and markets Internet access for business and leisure travelers.
The Palace -- Provides Internet-based world chat software that allows real-time interactivity between participants.
Trend Micro -- Develops antivirus software.
Third Age Media -- Leverages the rapid growth of the online senior citizen community.
UTStarcom -- Develops wired and wireless infrastructure products.
USWeb -- Maintains a global network of USWeb Centers to provide businesses and individuals with premier professional Web development, on-line marketing, Web site management, and education services.
VeriSign -- Provides digital authentication products and services
WebCel Communications -- Provides cellular-based, broadband services for the Internet.
Yahoo! Inc. -- Serves as the world's most popular Web search destination.
Yoyodyne Entertainment -- Runs free Internet games for prizes.
Zip2 -- Provides a system for regional newspapers to put their business advertisers directly on the Web.
Non-U.S. Investments:
Cisco Japan Ltd. (Japan - with Cisco Systems, Compaq Japan, CSK, Fujitsu, Hitachi, C. Itoh, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, NetOne, NTT Data, Oki, Sega, and Toshiba) Distributes Cisco products in Japan; promotes the establishment of inter-networking standards in Japan; cooperates with Japanese OEMs in designing and distributing such OEMs inter-networking products.
Cyber Communications Inc. (Japan - with Dentsu) -- Provide in Japan services similar to those SOFTBANK Interactive Marketing (see above)provides in the U.S.
Gamebank Corp. (Japan - with Microsoft) -- Develops Windows 95-based games; ports console-based games to the Windows 95 platform; distributes such games.
JSkyB (Japan - with The News Corporation) -- Digital satellite broadcast joint venture in Japan; involves equity investment in Asahi TV.
Mediabank Corp. (Japan - with NTT Data) -- Provides Internet access in Japan; will provide video-on-demand in the future.
Novell Japan Ltd. (Japan - with Novell, Canon, Fujitsu, NEC, Sony, and Toshiba) -- Localizes Novell products for the Japanese market and distributes them.
Pasona Bank Inc. (Japan - with Pasona Corp.) -- Provides highly skilled, temporary personnel for a wide variety of computer-related tasks.
SOFTBANK Korea Co. Inc. (Korea - with Pohan Steel and TriGem) -- Distributes software and peripherals. and publishes computer-related magazines in Korea.
UTStarcom Inc. (China) -- Provides cellular and Internet-access services in China.
Yahoo! Japan Corp. (Japan - with Yahoo!) -- Provides in Japan the same services, in Japanese, as Yahoo! does in the U.S.
Additionally, Ziff-Davis Inc. and ZDNet have made strategic investments in several partners, including:
DejaNews
GameSpot
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