Hints and tips:
...Samii is 32, the youngest son of Iranian immigrants who moved to California in the 1960s. Both his parents are civil engineers....
...“Separately, are you still considering Winchester College for your son?...
...Perkins said his 22-year-old son complained that he had just spent $74 to fill his car — double what it cost last year....
...I managed a 60-mile ride with plenty of juice left and it can be charged to 50 per cent in 80 minutes. There is even a removable PowerBank accessory that can give you up to 65 miles extra range....
...Mr Fisher, SoftBank’s vice-chairman, joined in 1995 and is among Mr Son’s closest advisers....
...I’m a vegetarian, but my son swears they’re incredible. My other design must-see is Philip Johnson’s Glass House, which was the architect’s home and playground for experimentation....
...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...
...“It was obvious they were unusual,” says Moritz of the brothers, who grew-up in the small village of Dromineer, 30 miles outside Limerick. “It was a first on all counts.”...
...They also include attorney-general William Barr and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser....
...For those with just a passing interest in SoftBank, Son’s invocation of the son of God was further evidence of the general malaise surrounding the company. The travails have been well trailed....
...Today her shop is an outpost of the Nike brand in a community far from flagship stores or even the nearest large mall-based chain, 110 miles away....
...Masayoshi Son on Monday compared himself to Jesus Christ in defending the losses and investment approach of the Vision Fund, and said it would continue to address “the biggest challenges and risks facing...
...Son’s scrapes with Silicon Valley are the least of his worries at the moment....
...TikTok Wars: episode . . . we’ve actually lost count It’s been almost a month since DD’s James Fontanella-Khan and Miles Kruppa broke the news that Oracle had entered the race to purchase TikTok’s US operations...
...It’s just that my son is rather hoping to use this group for his Duke of Edinburgh community service....
...IWG is taking WeWork’s turf There is little love lost between WeWork, the troubled co-working company that flew too close to Masayoshi Son, and IWG, its older, larger, less name-checked rival....
...If you’re a bondholder you’d probably rather have your money back than have to grapple with other creditors about selling a piece of land thousands of miles away....
...The move is opposed by Sprint’s controlling shareholder, SoftBank of Japan, according to people close to the its chairman Masayoshi Son....
...But one illustrious tech investor was noticeably left out in the cold: Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank, which Snowflake rebuffed last year, insiders told DD....
...One scoop to start: Masayoshi Son explored an audacious leveraged buyout of SoftBank over the weekend with investors including Elliott Management and Mubadala before opting for asset sales to fund a huge...
...Two things to start: Hedge fund Elliott Management has built a more than $2bn stake in SoftBank and is pressing for a $20bn share buyback and governance changes at Masayoshi Son’s sprawling technology conglomerate...
...At least SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son can breathe a sigh of relief. The Japanese group would essentially have to bail Sprint out if the merger didn’t go through....
...Son over video chat....
...But markets have not proven kind to several of Son’s investments this year....
...Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons has named his son co-chairman of the quantitative hedge fund’s board and added five new directors....
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