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Deputy Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal
Yoko Kubota is The Wall Street Journal's deputy bureau chief in Beijing, responsible for business news coverage in China ...
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SoftBank Is Buying Bitcoin Again, After $130M Loss in 2018. Is This Time Different?
Flashback to 2019, SoftBank made headlines when its founder, Masayoshi Son, took a gigantic loss on a personal bitcoin investment. Son had taken exposure to cryptocurrency in late 2017, when the ICO ...
The Lutnicks’ Cantor Fitzgerald, Tether And SoftBank Team Up On A $3.6 Billion Bitcoin Venture To Rival MicroStrategy
Not long after President Trump established a strategic bitcoin reserve and pledged to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of ...
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How Is SoftBank Funding Its Mega Investment in OpenAI? A Lot of Debt
Global tech investor SoftBank Group 9984-2.33%decrease; red down pointing triangle is turning to a familiar tool to fund its $40 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced late Monday ...
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OpenAI Finalizes $40 Billion Funding at $300 Billion Value
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, said it has finalized a funding round that will bring in $40 billion from SoftBank Group Corp. and other investors at a $300 billion ...
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How Is SoftBank Funding Its Mega Investment in OpenAI? A Lot of Debt
Global tech investor SoftBank Group is turning to a familiar tool to fund its $40 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced late Monday: debt. The Tokyo-based company, led by ...