SoftBank has sold some of its shareholdings in Alibaba worth $2.2 billion, bringing the total of Alibaba stock sold by the Japanese company this year to $13.7 billion, Bloomberg reported. SoftBank, which invested in Alibaba in 2000, still is the Chinese e-commerce giant’s biggest shareholder, but the two companies’ two-decade-long alliance is beginning to weaken. Last month, SoftBank founder...
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