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Allianz Risk Barometer: A cyber event is the top global business risk for 2024

Cyber incidents such as ransomware attacks, data breaches, and IT disruptions are the biggest worry for companies globally in 2024, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer. The closely interlinked peril of Business interruption ranks second. Natural catastrophes (up from #6 to #3 year-on-year), Fire, explosion (up from #9…

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Blackstone Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Investor Call

Blackstone (NYSE:BX) announced today that it will host its fourth quarter and full year 2023 investor conference call via public webcast on January 25, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. ET. To register, please use the following link: https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1649868&tp_key=e37365a1ec.  For those unable to…

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SoftBank Corp.-led Proposal toExpand Spectrum Use for HAPS Base Stations Agreedat World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23)

SoftBank Corp. (President & CEO: Junichi Miyakawa, “SoftBank”) is conducting international standardization activities related to High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) spectrum for stratospheric-based wireless communication systems at the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) and Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT). SoftBank announced…

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BBIX and EHIME CATV Sign Business Partnership with Open Connectivity eXchange

BBIX, Inc. (“BBIX”), a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. that operates an Internet Exchange (“IX”) business, has entered into a business partnership agreement with EHIME CATV, Inc. (“EHIME CATV”) on Open Connectivity eXchange (“OCX”), a cloud-based network service. With this partnership…

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Blackstone Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Sony Payment Services, Broadening its Japan Private Equity Portfolio

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced that Private Equity funds managed by Blackstone have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Sony Payment Services Inc. (SPSV), one of Japan’s leading payment service providers, from Sony Bank, a…

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