Thursday, June 5, 2014

SoftBank will augment some staff at a few of its Japanese retail locations with humanoid robots

In Tokyo on Thursday, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who also owns roughly 80% of Sprint and has been feverishly working on possibly buying T-Mobile, announced a new device to the line up. Pair that with the upcoming auctions for 600MHz spectrum in the US next year, the pending IPO of Alibaba, of which SoftBank owns about 40%, and it goes without saying that Son has a lot on his plate.



With all the money SoftBank is looking to spend, it is inevitable that the company would be eager to look at technological replacements to save costs, which happens quite often as a result of a major merger.



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