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Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫正義, Korean: 손정의; born August 11, 1957 in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, Japan) is a Korean-Japanese businessman - whose grandfather came from Korea to Japan - and the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank Capital, and the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile (the renamed, effective October 1, 2006, Vodafone K. K. ). According to the Forbes magazine, his net worth is 7 billion dollars and he is the richest man in Japan , despite being the single person who has lost the most money in history (approximately 70 billion dollars in the dot com crash of 2000).

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Sprint and SoftBank Face Reality, Up Clearwire Offer

Source: Daily Finance

Sprint Nextel may have realized for a while that it needed to raise its bid for Clearwire if it stood any chance of getting full control of its networking partner. But you'd better believe that without SoftBank's a ...
Full article at: Daily Finance  More like this  23 hours ago, 5:31pm CDT

Sprint increases its offer for Clearwire, hopes to stave off Dish

Source: Fierce Wireless

Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) boosted its offer price to acquire the approximately 50 percent of Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) it does not already own from $2.97 per share to $3.40, caving to the demands of minority Clearwire shareholders and blocking Dish N ...
Full article at: Fierce Wireless  More like this  1 day ago, 9:02am CDT

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Softbank to issue record bonds for Sprint takeover

Source: Middle East North Africa Financial Network

(MENAFN - AFP) Japanese mobile operator Softbank said Tuesday it planned to raise 3.9 billion through a record bond issuance in June to finance its proposed takeover of US firm Sprint Nextel. Softbank, which is under ...
Full article at: Middle East North Africa Financial Network  More like this  1 day ago, 7:59am CDT

UPDATE 2-Sprint receives SoftBank waiver to consider Dish offer

Source: CNBC

* Sprint gets waiver to consider $25.5 bln rival offer from Dish * SoftBank to issue 300 bln yen ($3.9 bln) in bonds in June - filing * Sprint says recommendation in favour of SoftBank offer not changed TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - ...
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Softbank Plans ¥400 Billion Retail Bond Issuance

Source: FOX Business

TOKYO – Softbank Corp. (9984.TO) is planning yet another record-breaking sale of retail bonds to Japanese investors, seeking to raise around Y400 billion, The Nikkei reported in its Tuesday morning edition. Coming as early as ...
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SoftBank grants waiver for Sprint to talk more to Dish

Source: CNET

The Japanese wireless carrier is letting its rival Dish go into further talks with Sprint, saying that "we are providing this waiver because we are confident in the value of our transaction." Masayoshi So ...
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A Day of Reckoning for Clearwire

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Goldman Sachs to invest in Japan green energy

Source: PhysOrg.com

File photo shows solar power panels outside a plant in Kyoto, Japan on July 1, 2012. US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs said on Monday it will start investing in Japanese renewable energy projects, with a reported $2.9 billion ou ...
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