{"id":982788,"date":"2025-12-31T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982788"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:32:20","slug":"softbanks-4-billion-ai-play-what-the-digitalbridge-acquisition-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/31\/softbanks-4-billion-ai-play-what-the-digitalbridge-acquisition-means\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank\u2019s $4 billion AI play: What the DigitalBridge acquisition means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group on Monday announced that it will acquire the DigitalBridge Group, a digital infrastructure investor, in a deal valued at $4 billion. The move is part of the Japanese firm\u2019s plan to strengthen its investments linked to artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>Under the offer, SoftBank will pay $16 per share, which is about 15% higher than DigitalBridge\u2019s closing price on Friday. The deal values the company at around $2.92 billion and is expected to close in the second half of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group on Monday announced that it will acquire the DigitalBridge Group, a digital infrastructure investor, in a deal valued at $4 billion. The move is part of the Japanese firm\u2019s plan to strengthen its investments linked to artificial intelligence. Under the offer, SoftBank will pay $16 per share, which is about 15% higher than DigitalBridge\u2019s closing price on Friday. The deal values the company at around $2.92 billion and is expected to close in the second half of next year.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982788","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=982788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}