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| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1981 |
| Sector | Diversified |
| Employees | 67,229 |
| Revenue | 7.24T JPY (2025) |
SoftBank is a diversified telecommunications and internet corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses. SoftBank was founded in 1981 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 8 of 30 |
| Sector: Communications M&A | 5 of 6 |
| Type: Stake Purchase M&A Deals | 1 of 3 |
| State: Kansas M&A | 1 of 1 |
| Country: United States M&A | 2 of 14 |
| Year: 2012 M&A | 3 of 3 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-10-01 |
eAccess
Tokyo, Japan eAccess Ltd. is the largest mobile broadband service provider in Japan with 2.9 million subscribers. eAccess also provides fixed broadband services to 2.0 million subscribers by primarily selling ADSL connections to ISPs and offering ISP services under the AOL brand. |
Buy | $2.6B |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-01 |
Supercell Oy
Helsinki, Finland Supercell is a mobile game company headquartered in Finland. Their two game apps, Clash of Clans and Hay Day, reached the top position in “Top Grossing” ranking of Apple’s App Store in 137 countries and 96 countries, respectively. From February 2013 to August 2013, Supercell was the No.1 publisher in the world among the apps in the Games category of the App Store. The Finnish company has become the one of the leading proponents of ‘freemium games’, which cost nothing to buy but players spend money to speed up the action. |
Buy | $1.5B |
