Masayoshi Son owes much of his success to an incredibly prescient dot-com era bet on Alibaba. The SoftBank chief first invested $20 million in Jack Ma's ecommerce upstart in 2000, when it was just ...

Jack Ma, Alibaba founder, today announced his departure from SoftBank board. A visibly sad Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank said Ma and him will remain friends for the rest of their lives. Son ...