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MARCH 12, 2020

The price tag on the building, famous for being the former New York hub for the shopping retailer, is in excess of $1 billion. The building’s current owner is WeWork, which has been having a difficult time as of late after a failed IPO and then the need for a bailout from SoftBank later. The building has 12 stories.

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JULY 19, 2017

A previous Reuters report pegged the price tag for the deal at between $800 million and $850 million, which Snapdeal’s board rejected. One source said Flipkart could hold back $150 million of the deal price tag for one to two years after it is completed. As a result of that rejection Flipkart upped the ante by offering more.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The CEO pointed out that a potential IPO shouldn’t impact the investment SoftBank is looking to make in the ride-sharing company, as recent reports have surfaced that the investment could be at risk. If it’s too difficult to come up with a price tag for the stake, Son could walk away.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Masayoshi Son, chief executive officer of SoftBank – which just dropped $240 million into the firm – was described as “a bit flabbergasted” by the range of goods offering by Brandless, all in that $3 window. That appeal to simplicity, in fact, defines much of the Brandless experience.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

“The thing that’s so cool about having those relationships is that they literally tell us, either through their posts, their tags, their emails or their tweets, what they’re looking for, and we respond in kind.” And then building direct relationships with the community we serve,” she told Retail Dive.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

The move to open access, according to sources, started with Apple adding the Core NFC framework, which allows apps to use the NFC chip as a scanner for RFID tags, although that feature was very limited. According to reports, the deal fell through shortly after SoftBank secured its own stake in the ridesharing company late last year.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about some of those bigger funds, and I guess we’ll hold Softbank off to the side because that was really aberrational. I had just finished another project I was been working on.

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