{"id":1011471,"date":"2026-06-02T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011471"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:11:05","slug":"softbank-set-to-dethrone-toyota-as-japans-most-valuable-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/02\/softbank-set-to-dethrone-toyota-as-japans-most-valuable-company\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank set to dethrone Toyota as Japan\u2019s most valuable company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp. is poised to overtake Toyota Motor Corp. as Japan\u2019s most valuable company, marking a milestone for the global artificial intelligence boom and a dramatic reshuffling of the country\u2019s corporate hierarchy. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of the Masayoshi Son-led technology group climbed as much as 10% in Tokyo trading Monday, as AI-related shares climbed across the region. SoftBank shares have been gaining since news broke that two high-profile portfolio companies &#8211; OpenAI and SB Energy Corp. &#8211; were preparing for potential US listings. Toyota meanwhile dropped as much as 4.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp. is poised to overtake Toyota Motor Corp. as Japan\u2019s most valuable company, marking a milestone for the global artificial intelligence boom and a dramatic reshuffling of the country\u2019s corporate hierarchy. Shares of the Masayoshi Son-led technology group climbed as much as 10% in Tokyo trading Monday, as AI-related shares climbed across the region. SoftBank shares have been gaining since news broke that two high-profile portfolio companies &#8211; OpenAI and SB Energy Corp. &#8211; were preparing for potential US listings. Toyota meanwhile dropped as much as 4.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011497,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011471\/revisions\/1011497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}