Berkshire Hathaway: News

26 Nov 2024

Warren Buffett

Buffett's succession plan: How his $147B fortune will be divided

Renowned billionaire investor Warren Buffett has donated over $1.1 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stocks to four family charities and foundations on November 25. The act of philanthropy is a part of his Thanksgiving tradition.

03 Nov 2024

American Express

Berkshire Hathaway's cash tops $325B as Buffett sells more stock

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has posted a record cash reserve of $325.2 billion for Q3 2024.

29 Aug 2024

Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway joins $1T club, first for non-tech US firm

Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate led by Warren Buffett, has achieved a market valuation of over $1 trillion.

15 Aug 2024

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffet trims Apple stake, invests in this beauty company

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has made significant changes to its stock portfolio.

04 Aug 2024

Apple

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reduces Apple stake by almost 50%

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has reduced its stake in Apple by almost 50%, during a selling spree in Q2.

30 Jun 2024

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett redirects posthumous donations away from Gates Foundation

Warren Buffett, the 93-year-old Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has announced changes to his will that shall affect the allocation of his wealth after his death.

29 Jun 2024

Bill Gates

Warren Buffett continues philanthropy spree with record $5.3 billion donation

Warren Buffett, the 93-year-old billionaire investor, has made his largest annual donation since 2006 by giving away $5.3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway shares.

05 May 2024

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway eyes investment opportunities in India

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has recognized India as a land of 'unexplored opportunities.'

29 Nov 2023

Warren Buffett

'Never argued': Tracing Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett's 60-year-old friendship

The tale of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett will go down in the history books, showcasing the everlasting bond of an extraordinary friendship.

29 Nov 2023

Warren Buffett

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's longtime business partner, dies at 99

Billionaire Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway, died on Tuesday, aged 99. He would have turned 100 on New Year's Day.

24 Nov 2023

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway exits Paytm with Rs. 800cr loss

Renowned investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has sold its entire stake in Paytm's parent company One97 Communications Ltd.

23 Jun 2021

Bill Gates

Warren Buffett resigns as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation trustee

Billionaire Warren Buffett on Wednesday announced that he has resigned as a trustee at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

10 Sep 2020

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investing $570mn in Snowflake

In a major, albeit surprising, move, Berkshire Hathaway, the multinational conglomerate led by investing legend Warren Buffett, has confirmed the plan to infuse nearly $570 million into Snowflake, a cloud data-warehousing unicorn in the US.

07 Apr 2020

Mukesh Ambani

#CoronavirusImpact: Mukesh Ambani lost $300 million/day in two months

The outbreak of coronavirus over the last two months has left economies reeling, business disrupted, and people jobless.

19 Mar 2020

Microsoft

Bill Gates backs 'shut down' to combat COVID-19 outbreak

As the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc around the world, Bill Gates is urging the public 'stay calm'.

14 Mar 2020

Microsoft

Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft's board: Here's why

Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, has decided to step down from the board of Microsoft - the company he co-founded more than four decades ago with Paul Allen.

24 Oct 2018

Apple Watch

Three Indian-Americans on Time's 'Health Care 50' for extraordinary contributions

Three Indian-Americans have been named in the Time magazine's 2018 list of the 50 most influential people whose work is transforming healthcare in the US.

27 Aug 2018

India

Warren Buffett set to invest Rs. 2,000+ cr in Paytm

If reports are to be believed, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway are in talks with Paytm parent company, One97 Communications to invest around Rs. 2,200-2,500cr ($300-350mn) in the digital payments company.

14 Aug 2018

Books

A book on Warren Buffett's investing style

Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the 20th century's most profitable, trendsetting companies and a new book seeks to uncover the key insights of his investments by journeying through his career that began in the late 1950s.

08 Jul 2018

Facebook

Zuckerberg becomes world's third richest man, overtakes Warren Buffett

Despite concerns about data privacy over Facebook, the social network's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken American business magnate Warren Buffett to become the world's third richest person.

11 Jan 2018

Bill Gates

Ajit Jain, Gregory Abel: Potential Warren Buffett successors at Berkshire

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway promoted its senior executives -Indian-origin Ajit Jain and Gregory Abel- to its board. They are now being considered front-runners in the race to succeed CEO Buffett.

31 May 2017

Amazon

Amazon's $1,000 share price is a signal of changing times

If someone had walked into Amazon's first day of trading in May 1997 and spent $100 on Amazon, that person would have been richer by $50,000 now.

29 Nov 2016

Apple Macbook Pro

Apple to abandon development of Wireless routers

Apple is reportedly abandoning development of its Airport line of Wi-Fi routers and Time Machine wireless backup disks.

26 Aug 2016

Michigan

Warren Buffett's Dow investment could face losing $8/second bonus streak

In 2009, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway had lent Dow Chemical $3 billion as loan to aid their purchase of Rohm and Haas, a chemical manufacturer.