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Softbank owns what was Vodafone Japan, along with their own customers they had all along i think?. Also own Sprint, ARM, majority of Yahoo Japan. Made billions off Clash of Clans sale. Own a ton of Alibaba, biggest shareholder of Snapdeal (one of the 2 Amazon’s of India), Paytm (PayPal of India), huge shareholder of Didi (Uber of China)). Now Investing $2.5B into Grab with Didi (Uber of South East Asia + Asian islands). Already invested $1B into Grab. Created the SoftBank Vision Fund in 2014? or 2016? "Between 2009 and 2014, SoftBank's market capitalization increased by 557%, the fourth largest relative increase in the world over that period". 3rd biggest market cap in Japan after Toyota and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial. ----- Pretty sure the Venture Fund is $25B from Softbank, $45B from PIF. Final $30B from Apple, UAE company, Foxconn, Sharp (Foxconn owned), Qualcomm, among others. #buffett #boss #boss_peeps #empires #pub

Listed on NASDAQ. Market cap in 2018 was as low as $50M and as high as $350M. NO P/E so not profitable? In 2019 it is at $2/share, $80M market cap. Crazy thing is when it IPOed or whatever in 2007, it kept dropping, but it dropped from $62/share in Dec 2017 to $40-50 in March/April 2008 to $30 in August 2008 to $3 in December 2018 to $2 by mid 2009. So for that first year, it was sometimes a billion dollar company! Their revenue and losses are tiny for the former and huge for the latter. They might not even be doing $10M/year in revenue right now. --- They dont mention vegas.com, but they bought it in 2015 according to wiki for $15M cash plus tens of millions in stocks! -- Also bought out banks.com, irs.com, maybe filelater.com. Banks.com was a public company until 2011 with Intersearch Group. So the most complete list of assets (most not shown on this site): Bikini.com, Banks.com, US Tax Center at IRS.com, FileLater, TaxExtension.com, MyStockFund, BoWenWang and ComoTudoFunciona. The Company is headquartered in Las Vegas, with operations in Beijing, China and Sao Paulo, Brazil....entertainment through SlapTV.com and travel through the mobile hotel-booking application Roomlia." -- "For irs.com, also known as USTaxCenter, this could be the end of a long story. In September 2005, Intersearch paid $12.9 million for the domain name and immediately attracted attention from lawmakers wanting to clamp down on domains that were similar to official government agencies. The domain was eventually acquired by Remark Holdings, the Las Vegas company that also runs banks.com (VI 0.01) bikini.com (VI 0.16) sharecare.com (VI 1.926) and vegas.com (VI 10.29) along with Kankan, a social media and AI operation." #inspirational #empires #networks #pub

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Remark Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARK), a global digital media company and operator of financial services focused media... #acquisitions #remark_media #empires #domains #news #piggyback_domain_sites #pub

"A May investment presentation on Remark Media indicated the company had $18 million in assets, $12.8 million in liabilities and $9.4 million in debt as of Dec. 31. Its Dec. 31 income statement for the previous 12 months showed revenue of $1.8 million, but a net loss of $18.2 million for the year. Officials at Vegas.com say its site receives 3.4 million visitors per month across all platforms, including Google and the iOS Las Vegas app." #acquisitions #year:2015 #remark_media #empires #domains #news #pub

$15.5 million in cash $9.5 million in shares of stock in Remark. $10 million in five-year warrants to purchase shares of common stock in Remark at an exercise price of $9.00 per share and Up to a total of $3 million in Earn out payments based on the performance of Vegas.com in the years ending December 31, 2016, 2017 and 2018 According to the AP story Vegas.com gets 3.4 million visitors a month and Remark Media based out of  Las Vegas board includes “Las Vegas Strip executives connected to the Venetian and Palazzo hotel-casinos, CityCenter resorts and the Tao group of nightclubs”. #acquisitions #domains #remark_media #empires #news #piggyback_domain_sites #pub

Acquired irs.com in 2005-09. Banks.com in 2006-09. "InterSearch is a leading provider of Internet search services through a combination of traffic aggregation and proprietary websites, such as www.irs.com, www.camps.com and www.banks.com." #acquisitions #intersearch_group #year:2006 #empires #domains #news #piggyback_domain_sites #pub