Chairman of Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, gestures during a press conference announcing the company's earnings in Tokyo on November 4, 2014. SoftBank said net profit in the first six months of its fiscal year jumped by more than a third, thanks to a five-billion-USD gain from its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA (Photo credit should read TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)