
Business / Tech Mar 20, 2014
$73 billion payoff for SoftBank's ventures fuels push into Japan startups
Japan's biggest companies have a case of SoftBank envy, and that's good for entrepreneurs like 23-year-old Takumi Shimizu. Billionaire Masayoshi Son, 56, has boosted SoftBank Corp.'s market value to $99 billion since founding the business in 1981, partly from outsized returns on investments in companies ...