Welcome to the Tech Meam Right Home for Tuesday, July 14th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Soft Bank looks like it might want to unload Arm. So let me blow your mind for a second.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

I usually don't lead with rumors because rumors are speculative and oftentimes they don't pan out but this hits a bunch of my buttons so hear me out.

Sources are saying that Soft Bank is exploring either a full or partial sale of the

Chipmaker arm which Soft Bank bought four years ago for 32 billion dollars. If it can't sell arm to a third party,

Soft Bank might spin it off via an IPO, but quoting the Wall Street Journal,

Soft Bank has previously indicated it could return arm to public markets at some point.

Such a move has gained urgency, however, as Soft Bank seeks to raise cash from its varied stable of assets

to Molify Activist Investor Elliot Management Corp which has been

agitating for changes at the company. Soft Bank has said it plans to sell up to 41 billion

dollars in assets to prop up its struggling portfolio and buy back its own shares which have traded at a steep discount relative

to net asset value.

It has a grab bag of assets to choose from in addition to Arm and roughly $20 billion worth of T-Mobile shares it recently

sold.

Soft Bank also owns large stakes in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and a leading Japanese

cell phone provider."

So on the one hand, this rumor interested me because, again, it looks like

Masa San is considering selling things just to raise cash to shore up various balance sheets

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