{"id":974769,"date":"2025-11-18T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974769"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:40:21","slug":"google-gets-appreciation-note-from-the-worlds-biggest-investor-for-the-first-time-ever-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/google-gets-appreciation-note-from-the-worlds-biggest-investor-for-the-first-time-ever-in-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Google gets \u2018appreciation note\u2019 from the world\u2019s biggest investor, for the first time ever in 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway has taken a $4.3 billion stake in Google-parent Alphabet, lifting Alphabet\u2019s shares nearly 7% to $293.40 in after-hours trading. The purchase makes Alphabet Berkshire\u2019s tenth-largest U.S. stock holding and marks the conglomerate\u2019s first-ever investment in Google since the company was founded in 1998. The move surprised investors, especially as Warren Buffett has long described Apple \u2014 Berkshire\u2019s largest holding \u2014 as a consumer products company rather than a technology bet.<\/p>\n<p>But the surprise didn\u2019t end there. The recent 13F filing also showed that Berkshire has also slashed its holding in Apple. Berkshire\u2019s Apple position was cut by almost 15%, or $10.6 billion, to around 238 million shares. Despite that Apple remains its biggest holding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway has taken a $4.3 billion stake in Google-parent Alphabet, lifting Alphabet\u2019s shares nearly 7% to $293.40 in after-hours trading. The purchase makes Alphabet Berkshire\u2019s tenth-largest U.S. stock holding and marks the conglomerate\u2019s first-ever investment in Google since the company was founded in 1998. The move surprised investors, especially as Warren Buffett has long described Apple \u2014 Berkshire\u2019s largest holding \u2014 as a consumer products company rather than a technology bet. But the surprise didn\u2019t end there. The recent 13F filing also showed that Berkshire has also slashed its holding in Apple. Berkshire\u2019s Apple position was cut by almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974769","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}