SoftBank Mobile's bizarre, award-winning TV commercials - featuring a mixed-race family with a talking white dog as the father - have helped grow the company's mobile-phone business.

FUKUOKA--Dancing robot dogs named Spot and Pepper humanoid robots have been cheering on the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks baseball team in the absence of flesh and blood fans and cheerleaders. The ...

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has invested $300 million in dog-walking startup Wag. Additionally, Hilary Schneider, who most recently led LifeLock through its $2.3 billion sale to Symantec in ...