{"id":19578,"date":"2018-10-23T22:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19578"},"modified":"2018-10-23T22:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:23:24","slug":"softbank-ceo-a-no-show-on-day-1-of-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19578","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank CEO a no-show on Day 1 of summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN Business)<\/cite>A year ago, Masayoshi Son was the star guest at Saudi Arabia&#8217;s investment conference, sitting alongside Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at the glitzy Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">When bin Salman made a brief appearance at the same event on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s most important partner in the tech world was nowhere to be seen. A front row seat reserved for the founder and CEO of Japan&#8217;s SoftBank (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=SFTBY\">SFTBY<\/a>) was empty. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Son, and his chief operating officer Marcelo Claure, were both named as speakers by the Future Investment Initiative before a host of top names canceled plans to attend following international uproar over the killing of Saudi journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/23\/middleeast\/turkey-erdogan-khashoggi-intl\/index.html.\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN Business)A year ago, Masayoshi Son was the star guest at Saudi Arabia&#8217;s investment conference, sitting alongside Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at the glitzy Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh.When bin Salman made a brief appearance at the same event on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s most important partner in the tech world was nowhere&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}