0505 GMT - SoftBank Group Corp. is the most mentioned company in Asia Pacific in the news over the past six hours, according to Factiva data. This comes after the company said late Wednesday that Chief Executive Masayoshi Son plans to discuss a potential partnership between Arm Ltd. and Samsung Electronics Co. during an upcoming visit to Seoul, according to media including Bloomberg. Softbank bought Arm in 2016 for $32 billion, and Mr. Son was jawboning a potential initial public offering of the chip designer in February after a deal worth an estimated $80 billion to sell the chip designer to Nvidia Corp. fell through. Edaily separately reported Wednesday that Mr. Son may visit Seoul next month to discuss Arm. Dow Jones & Co. owns Factiva. (jacques.vanwersch@dowjones.com)


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