Bloomberg Brookfield Asset Management Inc and Fortress Investment Group are among the bidders for a portfolio of 15 hotels owned by Anbang Insurance Group Co, according to people familiar with the sales process. Blackstone Group LP, South Korea’s Mirae Asset Management, and GIC Pte, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, are also among the bidders for the hotels, the Financial Times reported, ...

Bloomberg Masayoshi Son can’t stop talking about how artificial intelligence (AI) is going to change the world. Now SoftBank Group Corp will finally have a board member who is an expert on the subject. SoftBank named a new director: Yutaka Matsuo, a professor at the University of Tokyo who focuses on social network mining, natural language processing and AI. SoftBank ...

Bloomberg The US crackdown on Huawei Technologies Co could make Apple Inc’s already troubled business in China even more difficult, hobbling iPhone sales in the world’s biggest smartphone market and disrupting the company’s supply chain, according to analysts. US President Donald Trump effectively banned US companies from working with Huawei. That’s sparked concern on Wall Street about potential retaliation by ...