It raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund
over the
course of several months; bought the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue
building for $ 850 million to serve as its new headquarters; is adding a second headquarters at the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco; led a $ 32 million funding round in New York startup The Wing; and has bought
several other startups, most recently spending $ 200 million on Meetup.
Local residents are working with artist Nicole Eisenman to
build a more durable version
of her fountain for Skulptur Projekte Münster — her Sketch for a Fountain (2017) has become the victim
of several instances
of vandalism
over the
course of this year's exhibition (which closed on 1 October), and last
month it was sprayed with a swastika.