Big ideas: The logo of SoftBank is displayed at the entrance of a shop in Tokyo’s shopping district Ginza. The bank could pair its existing businesses with THG Ingenuity’s technology to build an entire e-commerce supply chain offering for brands, from the warehousing and logistics to the website and app. ─ AFP
WHERE Masayoshi Son goes, some canny financial engineering is often not far behind.
The SoftBank Group Corp boss’s latest big idea is to turn his company’s legacy internet brands such as Yahoo! Japan into a Japanese social media, online payments and e-commerce giant – one that can counter the weight of Facebook Inc and Rakuten Group Inc.
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