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...billion helped spark a broader M&A boom. Rivals in Japan's go-go Internet industry learned that they too could grow by gobbling up corporate minnows. "A lot of people have followed the Livedoor model," says Tom Sato, founder of Tokyo IPO, a financial-information website. Softbank has executed 140 mergers or acquisitions; Rakuten, Japan's leading online-shopping site, has executed 55 of them; Yahoo! Japan has done 24. Although Japan still accounts for only 5.6% of the world's M&A market, dealmaking has become an increasingly profitable fashion. In 2005, there were 2,561 deals...
...Marxist fold. Nor did an exercise in entrepreneurship when he co-founded General Wireless (now known as MTone), one of the first mainland-owned companies to receive venture-capital funding in the mid-'90s. Now Huang is sowing the seeds of capitalism as China managing director of Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, a $400 million venture fund. "There's a tendency for foreigners to look at [Chinese] companies run by English-speaking CEOs because they feel they can trust them and talk directly to them," he says. "But there's a much deeper market of successful businesses run by people...
...SOFTBANK ASIA INFRASTRUCTURE FUND, SHANGHAI...
...Marxist fold. Nor did an exercise in entrepreneurship when he co-founded General Wireless (now known as MTone), one of the first mainland-owned companies to receive venture-capital funding in the mid-'90s. Now Huang is sowing the seeds of capitalism as China managing director of Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, a $400 million venture fund. "There's a tendency for foreigners to look at [Chinese] companies run by English-speaking CEOs because they feel they can trust them and talk directly to them," he says. "But there's a much deeper market of successful businesses run by people...
...While Internet television is still in its infancy, telecom executives now confidently opine that success awaits the companies that can reliably and economically provide consumers with what is called the "triple play": TV, Internet and telephone service. Softbank is not the only triple player in Japan. In late 2003, KDDI added television programming to its Internet access and telephone services, while J-Com, with nearly 2 million subscribers the country's largest cable-TV operator, last month began rolling out video-on-demand to augment the TV, phone and Net access it already provides via digital cable...