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Look at the price when market open . It's 60 dollars per share pre opening price woooooow I knew it. Very happy
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Who is Pepper?
https://www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/en/cool-robots/pepper
Pepper is a human-shaped robot. He is kindly, endearing and surprising.
We have designed Pepper to be a genuine day-to-day companion, whose number one quality is his ability to perceive emotions.
Pepper is the first humanoid robot capable of recognising the principal human emotions and adapting his behaviour to the mood of his interlocutor.
To date, more than 140 SoftBank Mobile stores in Japan are using Pepper as a new way of welcoming, informing and amusing their customers. Pepper also recently became the first humanoid robot to be adopted in Japanese homes!
http://www.softbank.jp/corp/d/group_news/press_20160725_01_en.pdf
For over a year now, Nestle has employed an army of robots to sell coffee machines in its Nescafe stores in Japan. Nestle has plans to put Softbank Pepper Robots in 1000 stores.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/01/nestle-robots-coffee-machines-japan-george-clooney-pepper-android-softbank
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A.I./ MasterCard, Pizza Hut Asia try robotic commerce: Pepper will take your order now
http://www.zdnet.com/article/softbanks-pepper-robot-mastercard-pizza-orders-highlight-humans-as-walking-costs/
SoftBank's Pepper, MasterCard and Pizza Hut Asia are gunning for so-called "conversational commerce experiences to merchants and consumers." The big picture is about more automation and replacing pricey humans.
Larry Dignan
By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines | May 24, 2016 -- 12:16 GMT (05:16 PDT) | Topic: Artificial Intelligence
http://www.zdnet.com/article/softbanks-pepper-robot-mastercard-pizza-orders-highlight-humans-as-walking-costs/
MasterCard and SoftBank's Pepper robot are preparing to take Pizza Hut Asia orders to gauge customer interaction and service by the end of the year. Get used to these headlines as automation takes hold and raises questions about the future of human labor.
The collaboration is among the first e-commerce applications for Pepper, which is a humanoid robot. MasterCard has equipped Pepper with MasterPass, a digital payment service. As detailed earlier by Asha Barbaschow, Pizza Hut Asia is the launch partner for the effort, which came from MasterCard Labs in Singapore.
What MasterCard is really gunning for is so-called "conversational commerce experiences to merchants and consumers." Pepper will provide customer service, assess to information and sales pitches. Pizza Hut is piloting the order-taking and engagement with Pepper.
Will Pepper do better than humans, especially those younger ones that text more than talk? Perhaps.
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The Pizza Hut Asia effort is notable in the U.S. given that an increase in the minimum wage is likely to speed up a move toward more automation. Another must read on the labor vs. automation topic is HfS Research's Phil Fersht weekend rant on the subject. He wrote:
It suddenly dawned on me what the core issue is with the future of the workplace: the simple fact that company leaders and their stakeholders started viewing employees as walking costs at some stage over the last 30 years, and have devoted a huge amount of focus and energy trying to figure out how to remove as many of them from their business as possible... without it impacting the top line.
Surely, people, human labor should be viewed as a valuable commodity that adds value to a business, not some burden on the profit margin that needs to be eliminated at all costs? So what's really gone amiss here?
Fersht makes valid points that people are performing tasks that don't align with business value. Part of the blame falls on employees as well as companies. But from a CXO standpoint, one of the core goals is to nurture what Gartner dubs a digital workforce. You'll be all about your algorithms. How much can digital replace these walking costs called humans?
Also: Can retailers automate, use smart machines and keep human touch?
The robotics movement lives on!
http://www.marketeyewitness.com/softbank-pepper-robot-is-it-a-game-changer/
Two years ago, the Softbank Pepper Robot was unveiled. It was originally built by a French Robotics company by the name of Aldebaran. Through its emotion engine, this friendly humanoid was designed to understand the feelings of people and to develop the appropriate reactions based on an individual emotion or mood.
In June 2015, the Softbank Pepper Robot went on sale in Japan. It was geared towards enterprise consumers at a cost of $16,000.
The Mizuho Bank has used the Softbank Pepper Robot to provide information to its customers in different languages in different branches within Japan.
In addition, the Softbank Pepper Robot may be at the preliminary stage of taking retail jobs away from the Japanese. Pizza Hut Asia was one of the first entities in Japan to use the Softbank Pepper Robot for customer service. At the moment, the robot is built for customer engagement as well as order-taking. The Softbank Pepper Robot is built to process transactions from beginning to end, including checkout.
Last month, the Softbank Pepper Robot was launched to corporate consumers in Taiwan via Perobot. Perobot is a subsidiary of the FoxConn Technology Group. It should be noted that FoxConn Technology Group teamed up with Alibaba to invest $236 million dollars in Softbank Robotics Holdings.
Two months ago, two hospitals in Belgium have begun to use the Softbank Pepper Robots to assist visitors at the reception desk. This arrangement was designed to enhance the performance of the hospital reception staff. Thanks to a Belgian firm called Zora Bots, the Softbank Pepper Robot is designed to give directions to or walk individuals to their respective doctor rooms for appointments.
For over a year now, Nestle has employed an army of robots to sell coffee machines in its Nescafe stores in Japan. Nestle has plans to put Softbank Pepper Robots in 1000 stores.
The SoftBank Pepper Robot is Coming to North America
Just like Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall, the SoftBank Pepper Robot is coming to America. In May, Softbank announced that its Pepper Robot will debut in the North American market later on in the year. The firm has even built a developer portal for any individual that is interested in creating applications for the Softbank Pepper Robot.
In addition, the firm has also introduced a software developing kit for the Android mobile OS on behalf of the Softbank Pepper Robot. Just like Japan, Softbank will approach the North American market by targeting businesses.
A couple of weeks ago, the Softbank Pepper Robot landed in Silicon Valley. For a week, the robot was featured at the B8ta retail store in Palo Alto, California. The robot responded to customer needs and inquiries. The purpose of this demonstration was to get U.S app developers excited about this phenomenon.
Imagine a world in which customer service robots were the norm. The word “new economy” would mean so much more to the average Joe.
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The SoftBank (SFTBY) Pepper Robot : Is It A Game Changer?
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Softbank Pepper Robot : Is It A Game Changer?
The SoftBank (SFTBY) Pepper Robot : Is It A Game Changer?
Check out this summary of the overall growth in usage of the Softbank Pepper Robot over the past two years.
Softbank Pepper Robot : Is It A Game Changer?
Softbank Group (PC) (SFTBY)
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reading/Why Softbank Is Buying ARM for $32B
By Steve Tobak Published July 22, 2016 ValleyBeat FOXBusiness Opens a New Window.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/07/22/why-softbank-is-buying-arm-for-32b.html
Since founding Softbank in 1981, Masayoshi Son has been known to take enormous risks, most of which have paid off.
Today, he’s chairman and CEO of a global telecom and Internet giant valued at close to $60 billion and is the second richest man in
Japan with a personal net worth of $17 billion.
On Monday, the company announced a bid which is probably the biggest
bet of Son’s life,
its plan to acquire British microprocessor firm ARM Holdings for $32 billion. ARM’s technology can be found in nearly every smartphone, tablet and mobile device on Earth.
Its microprocessor has long been the gold standard for low power
designs essential for mobile applications.
The question is, what’s that got to do with Softbank’s core business
as a wireless and Internet service provider? Acquiring most of Sprint for $20 billion in 2013 was risky enough,
but at least the goal was clear:
to turn around the struggling company and gain a foothold in the U.S. wireless market.
What’s Son’s plan with respect to the ARM deal?
Where are the strategic synergies required for acquisitions to make sense?
Those questions clearly spooked investors,
who drove shares of Softbank down more than 10% this week.
There may not be synergies and the goal may not be obvious,
but that doesn’t mean Son doesn’t have a bold vision of where the
world is heading. And he aims to make sure Softbank is right smack
in the middle of the action.
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Son sees a future where machines are smarter than people and
everything is connected. So he’s betting big on
artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).
And he believes that ARM’s ubiquitous microprocessor Opens a New Window.
architecture is well positioned to dominate that brave new world
and find its way into a trillion chips, someday.
That’s not as far-fetched as it sounds. A
RM doesn’t actually make chips, but licenses its microprocessor
designs to a who’s who of semiconductor and device makers,
from Intel and Qualcomm to Apple and Samsung, for an average of
about ten cents per chip.
As a technology company with no manufacturing, ARM is enormously profitable and scalable.
And Son plans to invest heavily to accelerate its penetration
into exciting new applications like intelligent robots,
smart cars and connected appliances.
Skeptical analysts have correctly noted that there’s a lot of
missing technology between a processor designer like ARM and a
service provider like Softbank,
but Son has been busy acquiring Opens a New Window. ,
partnering with and buying stakes in companies that are developing
the core software, communications and security technology needed to
fill those gaps and pull all the pieces of the puzzle together.
One of the sources of confusion over the ARM acquisition is its purpose.
Some media outlets are reporting that Softbank is betting on IoT.
Others describe it as a bet on AI. Son needs to do a better job of helping them connect the dots: IoT and AI are actually connected
in a fundamental way.
IoT is about integrating tiny sensors, processors and radios into everything from livestock and thermostats to clothing and vehicles.
A good analogy is that IoT is like the senses of the human body.
AI, on the other hand, is about making machines capable of learning
from the information they receive and making good decisions.
AI is like the human brain. The human senses and brain work together.
It’s the same in the physical world. After all, what would be the
point of making billions of things smart enough to sense their surroundings and communicate that information to the cloud,
the fog or wherever it needs to go, if machines aren’t intelligent enough to absorb all that big data and make smarter and faster
decisions than humans can?
Autonomous cars will be far safer than those driven by people for
one simple reason:
the machine can assimilate real-time information
from thousands of sensors communicated over its own high-speed
network and make nearly instantaneous decisions much quicker and
more accurately than a human can.
Hospitals will someday be able to detect, disinfect and if necessary, quarantine areas on their own.
They will efficiently deploy surgeons, nurses and equipment because they’ll know exactly where everyone and everything is at any given moment.
And the implications for advanced surgical techniques are already being realized.
Those same advantages of billions, maybe someday trillions of smart things communicating information to machines with advanced learning
and decision-making capability will find their way into every application you can think of, from agriculture and energy grids to
smart highways and air traffic control.
And Son believes that, with his backing,
ARM microprocessors will be well positioned to dominate those markets
as it now dominates in mobile.
The British company’s technology is a key piece of the puzzle that comprises Son’s vision of the future.
That’s what Softbank’s acquisition of ARM is about.
thank you, like to see sftby buyout yhoo too. would own 40% or more of baba
SoftBank’s Surprise Purchase of ARM Could Have Major Ripple Effects
SoftBank could spend heavily to make ARM's processor designs more competitive with Intel's. And it might also start to charge more for them.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/13643111/1/softbank-rsquo-s-surprise-purchase-of-arm-could-have-major-ripple-effects.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO
It involves a Japanese conglomerate whose most valuable assets are investments and controlling stakes in telecom carriers and Internet services firms acquiring the world's dominant provider of CPU core designs. Don't try to decipher what major synergies exist between ARM and SoftBank properties such as Sprint (S) , Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank Corp. and gaming company GungHo Online -- they don't exist.
The purchase isn't about synergies, but is rather a large one-off bet -- made easier because of the pound's post-Brexit decline -- by mercurial SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son. Son's wager is that owning a company that has a near-monopoly position on the licensing of microprocessor core designs to chipmakers, and also supplies GPU core designs and other complementary intellectual property, will pay dividends as the number of devices and subsystems featuring embedded processors -- including those falling under the Internet of Things (IoT) label -- keeps growing, and the computing needs of existing intelligent devices keep rising.
The deal is also one that's unlikely to yield a rival bid from a chip developer, due both to the price tag and because ARM's business model has required it to be the industry's Switzerland.
If Intel (INTC) , for example, tried to acquire ARM, not only would regulators probably object, but many of the ARM licensees who happen to be Intel rivals -- the list includes
Qualcomm (QCOM) ,
Broadcom (AVGO) ,
Marvell (MRVL) and many others -- would start weighing alternatives.
Likewise, if Apple, whose A-series processors feature custom ARM cores, tried to buy ARM, Samsung (SSNLF) ,
Huawei and just about every other Android OEM would get nervous, given that their phones and tablets are powered by chips containing ARM cores.
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Judging by initial remarks from SoftBank and ARM,
as well as SoftBank's history, the deal could be a negative for Intel, as it may result in ARM significantly boosting its R&D spending,
and thus helping licensees squaring off against Intel in markets such as server CPUs, network processors and IoT chipsets field more competitive solutions.
It could also be a negative for U.K.-based
Imagination Technologies (IGNMF) ,
which competes against ARM in the GPU core market.
Perhaps with an eye towards pleasing British politicians and regulators, SoftBank says it plans to "at least double" ARM's U.K. headcount over the next five years, while also increasing ARM's non-U.K. headcount.
Moreover, after closing past acquisitions such as
Sprint and Vodafone K.K. (now SoftBank Corp.),
SoftBank has spent heavily to improve the competitiveness of the acquired companies. Chances are it'll look to do the same with ARM.
But the deal might not entirely be good news for ARM licensees, if SoftBank tries to justify the steep price it's paying for ARM by boosting the licensing fees and royalty rates ARM charges for use of
its IP. The royalty rates are especially worth watching, given that ARM,
in spite of its near-monopoly position, has typically received just pennies for each chip using its cores.
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In the first quarter, the company recorded processor royalty revenue of $191.9 million from the shipment of 4.1 billion ARM-powered chips in the fourth quarter. That spells an average royalty of just 4.7 cents per chip, even though many of those chips featured multiple ARM cores.
If SoftBank tries to up that figure to, say, 7 or 8 cents per chip, that could ding the margins of ARM licensees a bit.
But given the ubiquity of ARM's CPU architecture and the massive ecosystem that has formed around it, chances are that licensees will grin and bear it.
WHO OWNS SUPERCELL
SOFTBANK OR TENCENT???
SELLING GAMER ????? MISTAKE ????? I THINK SO/ China's Tencent Wants 'Clash of Clans' Maker Supercell: Report
Tencent already has a leading PC gamemaker and Supercell owner Softbank needs cash.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/13609116/1/china-s-tencent-wants-clash-of-clans-maker-supercell-report.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO
China's Tencent Holdings is reportedly close to a deal for Supercell, the Finnish maker of "Clash of Clans", that would cement the Internet company's position atop gamemakers and continue China's run on targets around the world.
Tencent is in talks to buy a majority of Supercell from Japanese mobile phone company Softbank with the help of financial investors including Beijing-based Hillhouse Capital, the Wall Street Journal reported citing unnamed sourced. The approach values Supercell at $9 billion.
Chinese companies generally and Tencent in particular have been spending billions to heed a call from president Xi Jinping to bolster the country's slowing economy with purchases abroad. Earlier this week China's Xiwang Foodstuffs agreed to buy Canadian supplement company Iovate Health Sciences International for $700 million and Tencent in 2011 bought control of Los Angeles PC gamemaker Riot Games for about $230 million.
The Supercell agreement carries a number of stipulations and may not close, the Journal reported. Any buyer would have to guarantee control of the company would remain in the hands of its six founders. Buyers would also be prohibited from listing the company or making significant management changes.
Financing is also reportedly an issue.
Neither Tencent nor Softbank could immediately be reached for comment.
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Supercell leapt into the forefront after its founding in 2010 by exploiting explosive interest in smartphones with games such as "Clash of Clans" and the farming simulator "Hay Day". The company's newest game, "Clash Royale", topped gaming charts for Apple (AAPL) devices in March in the U.S, Germany and Brazil and brought in $80 million, according to game research company Newzoo.
The success of its games has made Supercell very lucrative. The company had net profit €693 million last year on revenue of €2.11 billion.
Softbank likely wants to sell the company as part of its efforts to lessen its $80 billion debt pile, about a third of which is left over from its 2013 acquisition of U.S. cellular company Sprint (S) for $21.6 billion.
It's also arranged a deal to sell its majority stake in game publisher GungHo Online Entertainment to that company. Softbank is also selling an additional $1.1 billion of its stake in Chinese online company Alibaba Group Holding (BABA) , bringing the total size of its Alibaba selldown up to $10 billion.
Softbank held 32.2% of Alibaba's issued and outstanding shares at the end of March, and had previously said that the initial sale of $7.9 billion announced last Wednesday would bring that stake down to 28%.
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SFTBY/ SoftBank Investors Call for Internal Probe of No. 2 Arora
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-21/softbank-investors-call-for-internal-probe-of-president-arora-in9tcg8v?cmpid=yhoo.headline
Shareholders sent letters to board of SoftBank, Sprint unit
SoftBank says Arora has done nothing wrong, no new information
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A group of investors in SoftBank Group Corp. has called on the board to investigate and possibly dismiss Nikesh Arora, the company’s second in command, in a sharply critical, 11-page letter that questioned his track record and qualifications as president and heir apparent to billionaire founder Masayoshi Son.
The request came in a letter to SoftBank’s board dated Jan. 20 from the American law firm Boies Schiller & Flexner and signed by Matthew Schwartz, a partner at the elite New York firm, without identifying the shareholders or how much stock they own.
The critique of Arora, which hasn’t been made public, questions whether the executive has conflicts of interest due to his existing role as a senior adviser to the private equity firm Silver Lake. It also suggests he may have been involved in past wrongdoing and generally poor business decisions. A separate letter from one investor to the board of Sprint Corp., which SoftBank controls, asks for his removal as a director there for similar reasons.
In addition to these allegations, the investors criticized Arora’s allegedly "poor investment performance and a series of questionable transactions" during his tenure. "Despite these issues, the SoftBank board saw fit to make Mr. Arora the third-highest paid executive in the world without any track record of accomplishment at the company," wrote Schwartz.
The investors are demanding that the boards at SoftBank and Sprint conduct "an internal investigation" by an independent firm. “We believe that an independent investigation will establish compelling grounds for the boards of SoftBank and Sprint to dismiss Mr. Arora from his executive and board positions.”
SoftBank denied that Arora has done anything wrong and called the letter “unsubstantiated allegations” from “unidentified shareholders.” The Tokyo-based company said it vets any potential conflicts in Arora’s investment decisions and has complete confidence in his management. It said the board is in the process of reviewing the letter. “I have complete trust in Nikesh and one thousand percent confidence in him and know he will continue to do great things for SoftBank in the future,” Son said in a statement. Sprint declined to comment.
Arora said he has worked hard to help SoftBank since joining the company from Google Inc. and has been careful to share any information that would present a potential conflict. “I think my track record speaks for itself,” he said. “Since my time at SoftBank, the last 18 months, I always strived to put the company first and I think none of the comments have any substantive bearing in fact.” He also said he may end the advisory role at Silver Lake when his current contract expires.
The investors are targeting one of the most successful executives in Silicon Valley. The 48-year-old is considered a star at SoftBank. At Google, Arora worked for a decade at the search giant, rising to become the top sales executive and later chief business officer. He joined SoftBank in 2014 and was promoted to president about a year later. Son, 58, called Arora the most likely candidate to succeed him.
Arora has also made an enormous personal bet on the future of SoftBank. Last August, he said he would buy 60 billion yen of the company’s shares, worth $483 million at the time. That was the largest insider purchase by an executive in Japan for at least 12 years.
“Picking on Nikesh’s performance seems entirely arbitrary,” said Atul Goyal, an analyst at Jefferies Group. “I’m inclined to trust Masa’s judgment and Nikesh has already shown his commitment with the share purchase.”
SoftBank’s shares were hit last year by struggles at Sprint and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., its two most valuable holdings. The stock has bounced back almost 40 percent since Feb. 15, when SoftBank said that it would repurchase as much as 500 billion yen of its own shares. SoftBank’s stock is down about 20 percent since Arora joined the company.
SoftBank shares fell as much as 5 percent Thursday after the letter was disclosed, before closing 1.4 percent higher at 6,088 yen.
Swiss Investor
One of the investors challenging Arora is Nicolas Giannakopoulos, a 46-year-old Swiss national. He said that his firm holds a bit more than $100,000 of shares of SoftBank and Sprint. Giannakopoulos said he is offended by Arora’s ethics and a history of deal-making he views as self-serving. “This is a kind of person, a kind of manager, who has no place in this world,” said Giannakopoulos.
He would not comment on the identity of any other investors, how broad the investor group is or how many shares they own. He said he is paying part of the fees for the services of Boies Schiller, whose name partner, David Boies, led the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. and Al Gore’s Supreme Court case over the 2000 presidential election results. Other investors are paying their share of the legal fees, Giannakopoulos said.
Schwartz, the Boies Schiller attorney, said that SoftBank has not responded to his letter. “We are actively considering our next steps,” he said. The letter says that if the boards of SoftBank and Sprint do not announce an investigation within 60 days the investors intend to pursue other remedies, including potential legal action and giving information to government regulators. The 60-day period ended last month.
The letter alleges three broad areas of concern: conflicts of interest that suggest Arora may put his personal interests ahead of those of SoftBank; poor performance in making investments for SoftBank; and excessive compensation at the company without sufficient disclosure.
The conflict-of-interest allegations center on Arora’s role as a senior adviser at Silver Lake, a position he has held since 2007 when he worked at Google. The letter contends that Arora is getting compensated by the firm for helping with potential technology company investments that are similar to the investments he is supposed to be making for SoftBank. “This dual role has the potential to reward Silver Lake to the detriment of SoftBank,” Schwartz wrote.
Silver Lake
SoftBank said that it is aware of Arora’s involvement with Silver Lake and takes care to thoroughly vet any potential conflicts. If investments present potential problems, they are examined by top executives, including Son. The company said it is comfortable with Arora’s position as a Silver Lake adviser and that SoftBank benefits from his involvement there. A spokeswoman for Silver Lake declined to comment.
Arora said that his involvement with Silver Lake has been minimal since he joined SoftBank and that any information he gets from the firm is limited to only what he needs to know for specific potential investments. He estimates that he has spent a total of 10 to 20 hours on the position in the last year.
The investor letter contends that Arora’s investment track record has been “lackluster” with a lack of proper due diligence. It cites two specific deals: SoftBank’s investment in an online video site called DramaFever and another investment in an Indian real estate portal named Housing.com. In both cases, the startups ran into trouble shortly after SoftBank put in money, according to the letter.
SoftBank said the business of backing startups, which Arora leads at the company, is by nature high risk and that failures are to be expected. Picking two deals that have had trouble says little about the overall rate of success, it said. The company said it is satisfied with Arora’s strategy and that other startups he has backed, including India’s Snapdeal, have thrived.
“It is entirely premature to evaluate an investment track record after 18 months; SoftBank is a long term investor,” said Paul Kranhold, a spokesman for SoftBank.
Arora also said it is too early to judge how his team’s portfolio of investments will do. In cases where startups have run into challenges, he said he has taken swift action to address them and then move forward.
The third area of concern cited in the letter is Arora’s compensation. In June, the company said it paid him 16.6 billion yen for the seven months of the previous fiscal year that he had worked, the highest pay package on record in Japan at the time. The letter called that “alarming and intolerable” given that shareholders have seen no benefit yet from his joining SoftBank.
SoftBank said Arora’s compensation was reasonable given his skills and experience. It also said that part of his pay was a signing bonus. It is common for executives changing companies to be compensated for stock options from their old companies that they will forgo. Arora held unvested Google stock options and other securities worth more than $76 million at the end of 2013, according to the last proxy statement before his departure.
“Without hard evidence, this will probably be dismissed by the analyst and investor community as groundless,” said Goyal of the letter. “Jury is still out, but perhaps Masa Son made the right decision with Arora.”
Softbank Group (PC) (SFTBY)
26.998 ? -0.302 (-1.11%)
Volume: 31,301 @ 1:16:39 PM ET
Bid Ask Day's Range
26.95 27.01 26.48 - 27.07
SFTBY Detailed Quote Wiki
i think 'Softbank Corp. (SFTBY)' i think SFTBY has more loot to spare and lot of resources to give worldwide networking.
i think 'Softbank Corp. (SFTBY)' would pay at least $50 plus fer yhoo
Yeah that's true. One of the reasons I like VZ is because they have a infrastructure across the NorthEast. They have home service and store locations. Adding Yahoo would give yahoo access to that infrastructure. But hey, I'll take Softbank too.
i think yhoo purchase would be better for us. 'Softbank Corp. (SFTBY)'
VZ GOT AOL
AOL WANTED YHOO.
if 'Softbank Corp. (SFTBY)' get yhoo they will own over 40% of baba
Pretty big players looking to get Yahoo.
It looks like the fight over Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) has boiled down to Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBY).
According to NY Post sources, the former is considered the front-runner (interested in Yahoo's core business and a 35.5% stake in Yahoo Japan),
and appears to have the backing of key investors who like the idea of a simple cash deal.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is also said to have offered CEO Marissa Mayer a graceful exit.
While a Softbank bid would likely be on the whole of Yahoo, president Nikesh Arora seems to be hanging back to gauge what Verizon's offer will be before he makes a move.
SFTBY News: Post-effective Amendment to a Previously Filed F-6. (f-6 Pos) 09/25/2015 06:13:06 AM
Softbank Group (PC) (SFTBY)
25.57 ? 0.01 (0.04%)
Volume: 106,069 @ 4:01:06 PM ET
Bid Ask Day's Range
25.0 25.9 25.57 - 25.99
SFTBY Detailed Quote Wiki
Softbank plans $4.4 billion share buyback
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/02/15/softbank-plans-44-billion-share-buyback/80396684/#
SFTBY News: Post-effective Amendment to a Previously Filed F-6. (f-6 Pos) 09/25/2015 06:13:06 AM
Softbank Group (PC) (SFTBY)
21.04 ? -0.47 (-2.19%)
Volume: 152,531 @ 4:01:39 PM ET
Bid Ask Day's Range
21.0 21.33 20.96 - 21.48
SFTBY Detailed Quote Wiki
january 20, 2016, 10:47 P.M. ET/ SFTBF
Thanks Sprint: SoftBank Is Now Worth Less Than Its Alibaba Stake
http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks/2016/01/20/thanks-sprint-softbank-is-now-worth-less-than-its-alibaba-stake/?mod=yahoobarrons&ru=yahoo
By Shuli Ren
Sprint (S) is ruining its parent SoftBank‘s (9984.Japan/SFTBY) valuation.
SoftBank has tumbled 15% since media reports that Sprint would cut its tower network to generate $1 billion cost savings, possibly putting its network quality at peril. Wall Street analysts have questioned whether this purported plan makes sense at all.
Neither SoftBank nor Sprint have commented on the report.
According to Citi Research, this sounds out of character:
The last comments from Sprint were at our IMT conference in early January, at which CFO Tarek Robbiati remarked on the importance of churn reduction and improvement in network performance but did not give the impression that Sprint would meaningfully shrink the size of its tower network.
But damage has been done. Citi estimates that SoftBank’s Alibaba (BABA) holdings alone is worth 5,700 yen as of January 19 (Alibaba fell another 2% overnight) and SoftBank is now trading at 4,869 yen, or a good 12% discount.
So the rest of SoftBank is worthless? SoftBank jumped 3.8% while the Nikkei gained 1.6% this morning. See also my January 14 blog “Time To Bottom Fish SoftBank“.
UPDATE: SoftBank participated in the Nikkei’s late-afternoon sell-off, closing the day another 3.2% lower.
$SFTBY recent news/filings
## source: finance.yahoo.com
Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:04:24 GMT ~ http://www.Housing.com raises 1 billion rupees from SoftBank
read full: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-com-raises-1-billion-090424411.html
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Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:04:24 GMT ~ http://www.Housing.com raises 1 billion rupees from SoftBank
read full: http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-com-raises-1-billion-090424540.html
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Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:24:00 GMT ~ Thanks Sprint: SoftBank Is Now Worth Less Than Its Alibaba Stake
[at Barrons.com] - Sprint (S) is ruining its parent SoftBank's (9984.Japan/SFTBY) valuation. SoftBank has tumbled 15% since media reports that Sprint would cut its tower network to generate $1 billion cost savings, possibly putting its network quality at peril. Neither SoftBank nor Sprint have commented on the report.
read full: http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks/2016/01/20/thanks-sprint-softbank-is-now-worth-less-than-its-alibaba-stake/?mod=yahoobarrons&ru=yahoo
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Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:18:40 GMT ~ SoftBank's Drop Deepens on Sprint Shares, Debt at Multiyear Lows
[Bloomberg] - SoftBank Group Corp. dropped for the fourth straight day after shares of Sprint Corp., the U.S. wireless carrier it controls, fell to multiyear lows on growing pessimism about the the company’s ability ...
read full: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/softbanks-drop-deepens-sprint-shares-001840963.html
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Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:18:40 GMT ~ SoftBank's Slide Leaves It Worth Less Than Holding in Alibaba
[at Bloomberg] - SoftBank Group Corp. dropped for the fourth straight day after shares of Sprint Corp., the U.S. wireless carrier it controls, fell to multiyear lows on growing pessimism about the the company’s ability ...
read full: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/softbank-s-drop-deepens-on-sprint-shares-debt-at-multiyear-lows?cmpid=yhoo.headline
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$SFTBY charts
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$SFTBY company information
## source: otcmarkets.com
Link: http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/company-info
Ticker: $SFTBY
OTC Market Place: OTC Pink Current
CIK code: 0001065521
Company name: Softbank Group
Company website: http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
Incorporated In: Japan
Business Description:
$SFTBY share structure
## source: otcmarkets.com
Market Value: $43,157,121,840 a/o Jan 20, 2016
Shares Outstanding: 1,107,729,000 a/o Jul 21, 2011
Float: Not Available
Authorized Shares: Not Available
Par Value: No Par Value
$SFTBY extra dd links
Company name: Softbank Group
Company website: http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
## STOCK DETAILS ##
After Hours Quote (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/after-hours
Option Chain (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/option-chain
Historical Prices (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SFTBY+Historical+Prices
Company Profile (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=SFTBY+Profile
Industry (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/in?s=SFTBY+Industry
## COMPANY NEWS ##
Market Stream (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/stream
Latest news (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/news - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=SFTBY+Headlines
## STOCK ANALYSIS ##
Analyst Research (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/analyst-research
Guru Analysis (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/guru-analysis
Stock Report (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/stock-report
Competitors (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/competitors
Stock Consultant (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/stock-consultant
Stock Comparison (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/stock-comparison
Investopedia (investopedia.com): http://www.investopedia.com/markets/stocks/SFTBY/?wa=0
Research Reports (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/research
Basic Tech. Analysis (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=SFTBY+Basic+Tech.+Analysis
Barchart (barchart.com): http://www.barchart.com/quotes/stocks/SFTBY
DTCC (dtcc.com): http://search2.dtcc.com/?q=Softbank+Group&x=10&y=8&sp_p=all&sp_f=ISO-8859-1
Spoke company information (spoke.com): http://www.spoke.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Softbank+Group
Corporation WIKI (corporationwiki.com): http://www.corporationwiki.com/search/results?term=Softbank+Group&x=0&y=0
WHOIS (domaintools.com): http://whois.domaintools.com/http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
Alexa (alexa.com): http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://www.softbank.co.jp/en#
Corporate website internet archive (archive.org): http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
## FUNDAMENTALS ##
Call Transcripts (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/call-transcripts
Annual Report (companyspotlight.com): http://www.companyspotlight.com/library/companies/keyword/SFTBY
Income Statement (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/financials?query=income-statement
Revenue/EPS (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/revenue-eps
SEC Filings (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/sec-filings
Edgar filings (sec.gov): http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001065521&owner=exclude&count=40
Latest filings (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/filings
Latest financials (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/financials
Short Interest (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/short-interest
Dividend History (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/dividend-history
RegSho (regsho.com): http://www.regsho.com/tools/symbol_stats.php?sym=SFTBY&search=search
OTC Short Report (otcshortreport.com): http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=SFTBY
Short Sales (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/short-sales
Key Statistics (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=SFTBY+Key+Statistics
Insider Roster (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ir?s=SFTBY+Insider+Roster
Income Statement (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=SFTBY
Balance Sheet (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=SFTBY
Cash Flow (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=SFTBY+Cash+Flow&annual
## HOLDINGS ##
Major holdings (cnbc.com): http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/SFTBY/tab/8.1
Insider transactions (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=SFTBY+Insider+Transactions
Insider transactions (secform4.com): http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/SFTBY.htm
Insider transactions (insidercrow.com): http://www.insidercow.com/history/company.jsp?company=SFTBY
Ownership Summary (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/ownership-summary
Institutional Holdings (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/institutional-holdings
Insiders (SEC Form 4) (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/insider-trades
Insider Disclosure (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/insider-transactions
## SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER VARIOUS SOURCES ##
PST (pennystocktweets.com): http://www.pennystocktweets.com/stocks/profile/SFTBY
Market Watch (marketwatch.com): http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/SFTBY
Bloomberg (bloomberg.com): http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SFTBY:US
Morningstar (morningstar.com): http://quotes.morningstar.com/stock/s?t=SFTBY
Bussinessweek (businessweek.com): http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot_article.asp?ticker=SFTBY
$SFTBY DD Notes ~ http://www.ddnotesmaker.com/SFTBY
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SOFTBANK Corp General information SFTBY
OTC Pink Current / Unsponsored ADR - Ratio: 2 ADS = 1 Ordinary
SOFTBANK Corp along with its subsidiaries provides mobile telecommunication service,
sale of mobile handsets and accessories, fixed-line telecommunication services,
Internet-based advertising and data and broadband services, among others.
Exterior of Headquarters/ http://www.softbank.co.jp /
30-day Avg Volume | Market Cap | Net Income | ||
0.8Mil | 98.5 Bil | 4.0 Bil | ||
Sales | Sector | Industry | ||
72.5 Bil | Communication Services | Telecom Services |
Employees (12/31/2013) | 70,336 |
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As of December 31, 2010)
Corporate name SOFTBANK CORP.
Founded September 3, 1981
Corporate headquarters 1-9-1 Higashi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7303
Access Map
Telephone number +81-3-6889-2000
Representative Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO
Paid-in capital 188,771.34 million yen
Consolidated subsidiaries 116
Equity method affiliates 80
Number of employees 148 (consolidated basis: 21,858)
Main business Pure holding company
Accounting auditor Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Price/Earnings | 29.4 | 17.2 | 18.7 | — | |
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Price/Book | 3.7 | 1.9 | 2.7 | — | |
Price/Sales | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.8 | — | |
Price/Cash Flow | 11.0 | — | 11.5 | — | |
Dividend Yield % | — | 3.4 | 2.3 | — | |
Price/Fair Value | Premium | — | — | — |
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/company-info
Financial Reporting/Disclosure
Reporting Status International Reporting: Tokyo Stock Exchange
Audited Financials Not Available
Latest Report
CIK 0001065521
Fiscal Year End 3/31/ OTC Market Tier OTC Pink Current
Profile Data
SIC - Industry Classification
Incorporated In: Japan Year of Inc.
Employees 21858 a/o Dec 31, 2010
Company Officers
Masayoshi Son President, CEO
SFTBY Security Details Other Company Securities
Share Structure/
Market Value1 $40,053,462 a/o Mar 15, 2011
Shares Outstanding 1,082,526 a/o Jan 31, 2011
Float N/A
Authorized Shares N/A
Par Value N/A
Shareholders
Shareholders of Record N/A
Beneficial Shareholders N/A
Corporate Actions
Ex. Date Record Date Pay Date
Dividend (0) Feb 15, 2011 Feb 11, 2011 Feb 14, 2011
Dividend (0) Mar 30, 2011
Dividend (0) Feb 15, 2011 Feb 11, 2011 Feb 14, 2011
Security Notes
Capital Change=shs increased by 20 for 1 split, Re-Announced. stk dividend concurrent with a ratio change
from 1 ADS: 10 ordinary shares to 2 ADS: 1 ordinary share.
Due Bill Redeemable Date: 02/17/2011. Ex-date=02/15/2011. Rec date=02/11/2011. Pay date=02/14/2011.
Non US Stock Exchange Listing/ 9984 - Tokyo Stock Exchange - Qualified
Contact Info
1-9-1 Higashi Shimbashi
Minato-ku
Tokyo 103-7303
Japan
Website: http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
Phone: 011-813-6889-2000
Email: ir@softbank.co.jp
Source: http://www.equities.com
SFTBY recent news/filings
## source: finance.yahoo.com
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:38:13 GMT ~ Buying Yahoo to play Alibaba? History hints at future moves
read full: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/buying-a-stock-as-a-way-to-play-the-next-hot-ipo--a-look-at-past-cases-113815399.html
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Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:03:00 GMT ~ Will Sprint (S) Stock Be Helped By This Price Target Increase?
read full: http://www.thestreet.com/story/12876038/1/will-sprint-s-stock-be-helped-by-this-price-target-increase.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO
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Sun, 07 Sep 2014 05:28:00 GMT ~ Why Alibaba is a big deal (largest IPO in history): Your cheat sheet.
read full: http://finance.yahoo.com/tumblr/blog-alibaba-pump-amazon-dump-warranted-052812452.html
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Tue, 02 Sep 2014 02:07:18 GMT ~ SOFTBANK CORP. -- Moody's: Japanese corporates' capex to slow, cash holdings increase
read full: http://www.moodys.com/page/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PR_307545&WT.mc_id=AM~WWFob29fRmluYW5jZTQyX1NCX1JhdGluZyBOZXdzX0FsbF9Fbmc=~20140901_PR_307545
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Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:51:00 GMT ~ Why Softbank (SFTBY) Stock Closed Higher Today
read full: http://www.thestreet.com/story/12849213/1/why-softbank-sftby-stock-closed-higher-today.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO
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$SFTBY charts
basic chart ## source: stockcharts.com
basic chart ## source: stockscores.com
big daily chart ## source: stockcharts.com
big weekly chart ## source: stockcharts.com
## source: otcmarkets.com
Link: http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/company-info
Ticker: $SFTBY
OTC Market Place: OTC Pink Current
CIK code: 0001065521
Company name: SOFTBANK Corp.
Company website: http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
Incorporated In: Japan
Business Description:
$SFTBY share structure
## source: otcmarkets.com
Market Value: $90,058,367,700 a/o Sep 12, 2014
Shares Outstanding: 1,107,729,000 a/o Jul 21, 2011
Float: Not Available
Authorized Shares: Not Available
Par Value: No Par Value
$SFTBY extra dd links
Company name: SOFTBANK Corp.
Company website: http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
## STOCK DETAILS ##
After Hours Quote (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/after-hours
Option Chain (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/option-chain
Historical Prices (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SFTBY+Historical+Prices
Company Profile (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=SFTBY+Profile
Industry (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/in?s=SFTBY+Industry
## COMPANY NEWS ##
Market Stream (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/stream
Latest news (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/news - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=SFTBY+Headlines
## STOCK ANALYSIS ##
Analyst Research (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/analyst-research
Guru Analysis (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/guru-analysis
Stock Report (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/stock-report
Competitors (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/competitors
Stock Consultant (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/stock-consultant
Stock Comparison (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/stock-comparison
Investopedia (investopedia.com): http://www.investopedia.com/markets/stocks/SFTBY/?wa=0
Research Reports (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/research
Basic Tech. Analysis (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=SFTBY+Basic+Tech.+Analysis
Barchart (barchart.com): http://www.barchart.com/quotes/stocks/SFTBY
DTCC (dtcc.com): http://search2.dtcc.com/?q=SOFTBANK+Corp.&x=10&y=8&sp_p=all&sp_f=ISO-8859-1
Spoke company information (spoke.com): http://www.spoke.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=SOFTBANK+Corp.
Corporation WIKI (corporationwiki.com): http://www.corporationwiki.com/search/results?term=SOFTBANK+Corp.&x=0&y=0
WHOIS (domaintools.com): http://www.softbank.co.jp/en"="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.softbank.co.jp/en" rel="nofollow">http://whois.domaintools.com/http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
Alexa (alexa.com): http://www.softbank.co.jp/en"="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.softbank.co.jp/en" rel="nofollow">http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://www.softbank.co.jp/en#
Corporate website internet archive (archive.org): http://www.softbank.co.jp/en"="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.softbank.co.jp/en" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.softbank.co.jp/en
## FUNDAMENTALS ##
Call Transcripts (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/call-transcripts
Annual Report (companyspotlight.com): http://www.companyspotlight.com/library/companies/keyword/SFTBY
Income Statement (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/financials?query=income-statement
Revenue/EPS (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/revenue-eps
SEC Filings (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/sec-filings
Edgar filings (sec.gov): http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001065521&owner=exclude&count=40
Latest filings (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/filings
Latest financials (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/financials
Short Interest (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/short-interest
Dividend History (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/dividend-history
RegSho (regsho.com): http://www.regsho.com/tools/symbol_stats.php?sym=SFTBY&search=search
OTC Short Report (otcshortreport.com): http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=SFTBY
Short Sales (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/short-sales
Key Statistics (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=SFTBY+Key+Statistics
Insider Roster (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ir?s=SFTBY+Insider+Roster
Income Statement (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=SFTBY
Balance Sheet (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=SFTBY
Cash Flow (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=SFTBY+Cash+Flow&annual
## HOLDINGS ##
Major holdings (cnbc.com): http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/SFTBY/tab/8.1
Insider transactions (yahoo.com): http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=SFTBY+Insider+Transactions
Insider transactions (secform4.com): http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/SFTBY.htm
Insider transactions (insidercrow.com): http://www.insidercow.com/history/company.jsp?company=SFTBY
Ownership Summary (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/ownership-summary
Institutional Holdings (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/institutional-holdings
Insiders (SEC Form 4) (nasdaq.com): http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/SFTBY/insider-trades
Insider Disclosure (otcmarkets.com): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SFTBY/insider-transactions
## SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER VARIOUS SOURCES ##
PST (pennystocktweets.com): http://www.pennystocktweets.com/stocks/profile/SFTBY
Market Watch (marketwatch.com): http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/SFTBY
Bloomberg (bloomberg.com): http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SFTBY:US
Morningstar (morningstar.com): http://quotes.morningstar.com/stock/s?t=SFTBY
Bussinessweek (businessweek.com): http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot_article.asp?ticker=SFTBY
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