{"id":974570,"date":"2025-11-18T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974570"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:44:52","slug":"google-parent-alphabet-shares-jump-5-after-berkshire-hathaway-makes-rare-tech-bet-with-4-9-billion-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/google-parent-alphabet-shares-jump-5-after-berkshire-hathaway-makes-rare-tech-bet-with-4-9-billion-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Google parent Alphabet shares jump 5% after Berkshire Hathaway makes rare tech bet with $4.9 billion stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet shares rallied more than 5% on Monday as Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s new stake provided an endorsement of the tech giant&#8217;s artificial intelligence efforts, in one of the final major investments by the conglomerate under Warren Buffett&#8217;s leadership. <\/p>\n<p>The September-quarter purchase of 17.85 million Alphabet shares &#8211; worth about $4.93 billion &#8211; also marked a rare tech bet by Berkshire, famously averse to companies Buffett has said he cannot understand or predict. The billionaire investor has long compared Apple, Berkshire&#8217;s largest holding, to a consumer products company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet shares rallied more than 5% on Monday as Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s new stake provided an endorsement of the tech giant&#8217;s artificial intelligence efforts, in one of the final major investments by the conglomerate under Warren Buffett&#8217;s leadership. The September-quarter purchase of 17.85 million Alphabet shares &#8211; worth about $4.93 billion &#8211; also marked a rare tech bet by Berkshire, famously averse to companies Buffett has said he cannot understand or predict. The billionaire investor has long compared Apple, Berkshire&#8217;s largest holding, to a consumer products company.<\/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-974570","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\/974570","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=974570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}