{"id":1029120,"date":"2026-08-17T07:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029120"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:00:40","slug":"alphabet-becomes-berkshire-hathaways-third-largest-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/alphabet-becomes-berkshire-hathaways-third-largest-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet becomes Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s third-largest investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway said on Friday it boosted the size of its investment in Alphabet by 83% in the second quarter, making the parent of Google and YouTube its third-largest stock holding. Berkshire said in a \u200cregulatory filing that \u2060it owned \u2060nearly 106 million Alphabet shares worth about $37.8 billion as of June 30, up from 57.8 million shares three months earlier. The stake included a $10 billion investment announced in June, to help Alphabet expand its AI infrastructure. Apple remained Berkshire&#8217;s largest stock investment, worth $66 billion at the end of June, followed by American Express at $51.3 billion. Coca-Cola ranked fourth and Bank of America was fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway said on Friday it boosted the size of its investment in Alphabet by 83% in the second quarter, making the parent of Google and YouTube its third-largest stock holding. Berkshire said in a \u200cregulatory filing that \u2060it owned \u2060nearly 106 million Alphabet shares worth about $37.8 billion as of June 30, up from 57.8 million shares three months earlier. The stake included a $10 billion investment announced in June, to help Alphabet expand its AI infrastructure. Apple remained Berkshire&#8217;s largest stock investment, worth $66 billion at the end of June, followed by American Express at $51.3 billion. Coca-Cola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029145,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029120\/revisions\/1029145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}