Word: softbank
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...Internet search-engine company. In June he and another corporate conqueror, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, acquired a 21% interest in TV Asahi, which will be the entrepreneurial duo's base for a 150-station satellite network called Japan Sky Broadcast. And in September, Son's Tokyo-based Softbank paid $1.5 billion for 80% of California-based Kingston Technology, the world's largest maker of computer-memory products. Son's ultimate goal: nothing less than Softbank's dominance of the Internet world...
Prime time turned out to be the Web. Next month, fueled by a second cash infusion from investors that include Vulcan Ventures, SoftBank, American Express and the Washington Post, Consumer's Edge will unveil its site, with channels focused on cars, mutual funds, colleges, bicycles, home-office equipment, restaurants and choosing a city to call home. By year's end Tomlin hopes to have 20 channels, including ones devoted to travel, careers, entertainment and consumer electronics...