Masayoshi Son, the world's top tech investor, is betting big on Trump

Son promised Trump that he would create 50,000 new jobs in the US via $100 bn technology fund

The world’s largest technology investor is preparing to ramp up his bet on the Trump economy.

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire technology entrepreneur from Japan, promised President Trump late last year that he would create 50,000 new jobs in the United States through a $100 billion technology fund.

Now, Son and his financial advisors are weighing several major possible deals for Sprint, the struggling American wireless operator controlled by Son’s SoftBank.

Be it a tie-up with T-Mobile US, Sprint’s closest competitor, or a more ambitious marriage with the cable colossus Comcast, a transaction would allow Son to fulfill a long-held ambition to invest aggressively