SoftBank Bets on Warehouse Tech; Hitachi’s Push into Enterprise-Software; Coinbase’s Ties

Good day. In today’s newsletter, SoftBank Group Corp. made a major investment in Norwegian warehouse-automation company AutoStore at a nearly $8 billion valuation, marking another big bet by the Japanese conglomerate on robot-enabled technology.

Plus, a look at Coinbase Global Inc. and its plan to go public with two directors classified as independent, despite close company ties. The independent label allows Coinbase, the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, to assign the two directors, Fred Ehrsam and Fred Wilson,…