Pursuits
Billionaire Son on Buying Spree as SoftBank Chases Growth
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A day after SoftBank Corp. said it was buying a majority stake in gamemaker Supercell Oy, billionaire Chairman Masayoshi Son is at it again.
Japan’s third-largest wireless carrier is in talks to buy a stake in Brightstar Corp., a U.S.-based mobile-phone distributor, the company said in a filing to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Nikkei newspaper earlier reported the deal could be worth more than 100 billion yen ($1 billion).