Softbank and its CEO Masayoshi Son made a bid for 70% of Sprint.
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It is an odd appendage in the Web-centric empire of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son.
Billionaire Masayoshi Son CEO of Softbank, met this month with the FCC.
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It took Masayoshi Son's venture firm just 30 minutes to agree to fork over the funds.
Into this morass of problems, enter Mr. Masayoshi Son , billionaire Chairman and CEO of Softbank.
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"So far it is not structural change, " says Masayoshi Honma, an expert on Japanese politics at Tokyo's Seikei University.
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Masayoshi Son, a wireless tycoon, plans to build huge solar-power stations and a new grid to connect Japanese prefectures.
Hurry or you'll miss Softbank's Masayoshi Son on the Internet in Asia.
SoftBank CEO, Masayoshi Son, is ambitious and has grand plans for Sprint.
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Sprint is attempting to sell a 70% interest in itself to foreign based Softbank, headed by Masayoshi Son.
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Softbank is led by CEO Masayoshi Son, a well-known opponent of nuclear power.
For Softbank, it would be an ignoble defeat to its the best laid plans of its billionaire chief, Masayoshi Son.
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Ten years ago Laury made a controversial choice for Businessman of the Year in his magazine: Masayoshi Son of Japan's SoftBank.
Masayoshi Son's golden touch in Web investing has made him fabulously rich.
Japan's Masayoshi Son, the founder of Softbank, an internet holding company, has seen his wealth contract by 71% in the past year.
Shigeta's been in a race of sorts with Masayoshi Son of Softbank, on whose board he sits, for richest man in Japan.
The smart guys in the room are Masayoshi Son and Charlie Ergen.
At one time he took a Japanese name, Yasumoto Masayoshi, but reverted to his Korean name when he naturalized as a Japanese citizen.
In mid-1995, the then finance minister, Masayoshi Takemura, said, after the closure of Hyogo Bank, that no other big banks would go bust.
For sure, Sprint is of little value to Softbank and Masayoshi Son, its CEO, without the expansive 2.5 Ghz spectrum possessed by Clearwire.
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That's vintage Masayoshi Son: Get in early, place bets others shrink from and get out of the way to let the managers do the managing.
Either Jack Ma or Masayoshi Son would be the right answer.
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Meet Japan's Three Musketeers: Son Masayoshi, Sawada Hideo and Nambu Yasuyuki.
During the ceremony, Mrs Bokova gave the World Heritage site certificate to Mr Takuya Tasso, Governor of Iwate Prefecture and Mr Masayoshi Sugawara, Mayor of Hiraizumi.
The aides of the late prime minister Ohira Masayoshi (who died in office) kept surreptitiously emptying dishes to persuade people he still had a healthy appetite.
When Masayoshi Son showed up last year with his offer to buy 70% of Sprint, Hesse thought maybe at long last he would have his platform.
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When then prime minister Ohira Masayoshi collapsed (and later died) just as campaigning opened for the 1980 general election, the LDP ended up with a landslide victory.
Rumors exploded about the price tag, the buyer (reportedly the Japanese tech billionaire Masayoshi Son), and even now, little information exists, including which brokers were involved.
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It was in December 1979 that the Japanese prime minister, Masayoshi Ohira, paid a historic visit to Beijing to set the seal on wide-ranging plans for Sino-Japanese co-operation.
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It is part venture capitalism, part Jack Welch (be an industry leader or get out), part Warren Buffett (do your homework and then bet big)--and pure Masayoshi Son.
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