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...He was named to the Time Inc board in 1988 and took a lead role in its $14bn deal to acquire Warner Communications, uniting the magazine company founded by Henry Luce with the film studio once led by Jack...
...Instead, Nolan’s absence may unnerve staff at the company’s Burbank headquarters: the prodigal son missing from the family gathering....
...Raine previously advised SoftBank when it acquired Arm for $32bn in a 2016 deal that delisted it from the London stock market, and again when SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son agreed to sell the chip designer...
...It was not a view shared by Rebecca Roberts, who was visiting the Old Course to support her son Matt, a top amateur golfer who was preparing to play in the St Andrews Links Trophy tournament....
...They embraced green issues after Peter Seligmann, head of environmental group Conservation International, cunningly cultivated Rob Walton, Sam’s son who succeeded him as chairman....
...There’s Better, a Leeds-based thriller with Leila Farzad as a compelling detective inspector falling into corruption to help her son, on iPlayer....
...Son is effectively betting that he has another Alibaba-type investment inside one of his two funds....
...Today Rose Inc has 44 employees, split between California and London (where Huntington-Whiteley, her fiancé, the actor Jason Statham, and her son, Jack, have now returned after 11 years in LA, along with...
...As Stephen Bates, author of Royalty Inc, puts it: “The monarchy is one thing the Americans don’t have.”...
...Alibaba, the ecommerce company founded by Jack Ma and the most valuable of SoftBank’s investments, dropped as much as 8 per cent....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 1 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has said he would cut investments in Chinese start-ups until the extent of Beijing’s regulatory crackdown became clear....
...Masayoshi Son and his lieutenants at SoftBank are the latest to try Whoop on for size after the Japanese conglomerate’s second Vision Fund led a $200m investment in the start-up, increasing its valuation...
...Smart reads WeCrash Adam Neumann dreamt up a run-of-the-mill real estate plan into an empire SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son once prophesied would reach $10tn by 2028....
...A string of executives and board members have left the group over the past year amid Mr Son’s pivot towards asset management, including Fast Retailing chief executive Tadashi Yanai and Alibaba founder Jack...
...A third of sales of books by Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series of thrillers, were “deep backlist” — equivalent to Swift’s masters....
...access to a New York Post article concerning Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son....
...“People say we’re the Nasdaq whale, but the [derivatives] only account for 1 per cent of what we hold,” said chief executive Masayoshi Son on Monday....
...Two decades ago, Mr Son bet $20m on Alibaba, Jack Ma’s start-up, which eventually became a $580bn ecommerce juggernaut. Alibaba’s soaring value over the years has financed Mr Son’s aggressive bets....
...Mr Flatt and his predecessor Jack Cockwell will each control a third of the trust, with the remainder split evenly among five senior colleagues....
...The company is seeking approval for three new directors, while Alibaba founder Jack Ma will resign from the board. Saturday: Semicon China begins....
...What would Jack Bogle say? The founder of Vanguard, who died last year aged 89, was a pioneer of cheap, passive investing — and famously hated high-fee funds....
...One thing to start: Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has pledged $1bn of his equity in Square, the payments company he co-founded, to fund global relief for coronavirus....
...SoftBank announced a huge quarterly loss of $6.4bn, jeopardising Masayoshi Son’s ambition to launch another $100bn investment fund. Has the company’s business model been exposed?...
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