Buffett Comments on Trust Issue in Yahoo CEO BioGate: “You’ve Got a Problem”

If the sage of Omaha thinks it’s bad, it has moved to much worse.
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Warren Buffett on Apple, Google: Do Not Want

Warren Buffett wouldn’t bet against Apple and Google, but he won’t invest in them, either.
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Warren Buffett Says He May Buy More Newspapers

Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, who owns the Buffalo News, the Omaha World-Herald and a big chunk of the Washington Post, told shareholders today that he may buy more newspapers. “I think there is a future for newspapers that exist in an area where there is a sense of community,” he said. “I think the economics will be ok, but it will be nothing like the old days.”

Warren Buffett Now Owns Some Intel Shares, Too

Apparently over his reluctance to own tech stocks, Warren Buffett now has a small stake in chipmaker Intel, SEC filings show.
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Warren Buffett Likes IBM’s Tune, Becomes Its Biggest Shareholder

Warren Buffett says he has bought 5.5 percent of IBM, which appears to make him Big Blue’s largest shareholder.
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Apple Nearing Wal-Mart’s Market Cap

Apple’s shares have been on a tear following the announcement of the iPad, and with the device nearing its market debut, they’re rising to new heights. As I write this, Apple shares are trading at $229.45, a fresh 52-week high and a new all-time high as well. Apple today has a market cap of $207.99 billion. That places it fourth on a list of the Top Five publicly traded U.S. companies–just below Wal-Mart.

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Apple: Bigger Than Wal-Mart?

Apple, which had a market cap of several billion a decade ago, is today flirting with $200 billion, fifth in line among U.S. publicly-listed stocks behind Wal-Mart Stores, Berkshire Hathaway, Microsoft and Exxon Mobil.

Weekend Update 9.19.09–The Real World, Silicon Valley Edition

Geekfighting may never become its own UFC event, but following tech news this week seemed, in places, like a view to a big, well-funded cage match.

Warren Buffett at Fortune Women's Conference: On the Economy and George Clooney

Folksy set was on the highest burner possible at Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women’s conference this morning, as legendary financial investor Warren Buffett took to the stage. Buffett, who was interviewed by Fortune’s terrific Carol Loomis onstage in Carlsbad, Calif., held forth to the crowd–made up mostly of women–having instructed Loomis previously to “do anything with me…I like your crowd.”
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Yahoo's Bartz (No. 8), Facebook's Sandberg (No. 22), Google's Mayer (No. 44) and More Techies Make Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women List

Time Inc.’s Fortune magazine–which never met a list it did not like to make–had a solid group of women tech types on its “50 Most Powerful Women 2009” roster, the annual survey that it posted yesterday. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made the Top Ten this year, clocking in at No. 8, along with a lot of other tech-savvy women in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
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