Warren Buffett - Business ExecutiveFacebook announced the acquisition of the popular text service WhatsApp for the bargain price of $19 billion dollars in a deal that seemed to catch everyone off guard. While many Americans have never heard of the company, WhatsApp is hugely popular outside of the United States and it is not surprising that Facebook is trying to expand their market share into areas outside of America.
Opinion Articles & Editorials Written By Warren Buffett| Date | Article Name | Location |
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| 08/14/11 | Stop Coddling the Super-Rich | nytimes.com | | OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. |
Warren Edward Buffett News & Opinion Articles |  | Mon Aug 17, 2015 | vox.com
On Sunday, the New York Times published a massive exposé of Amazon's "punishing" work culture. The company, the Times alleged, "is conducting a little-known experiment in... |
|  | Sat Feb 28, 2015 | reuters.com
In his 50 years at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Warren Buffett has transformed a failing textile company into a sprawling conglomerate that has vastly outperformed... |
|  | Thu Jan 22, 2015 | politico.com
You don’t generally think of Bill and Melinda Gates as pundits. But with their foundation pouring billions of dollars into global development, in effect the two are in the... |
|  | Sat Jan 10, 2015 | npr.org
In places where fresh water is hard to come by, how do you come up with clean drinking water?
Easy — get the water from poop.
It's a scientifically sound idea, and... |
|  | Thu Dec 25, 2014 | washingtonpost.com
And now for Elon Musk’s next trick.
The billionaire entrepreneur is on the verge of attempting an audacious maneuver that could make his next space flight notable not... |
|  | Fri Nov 07, 2014 | telegraph.co.uk
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg holds his first Q&A session, and reveals why he made 1.3bn people switch to the Messenger app. |
|  | Fri Oct 31, 2014 | newyorker.com
When Tim Cook, the C.E.O. of Apple, acknowledged on Thursday that he is gay, Apple’s board of directors, business partners, and competitors quickly came forward to praise... |
|  | Fri Oct 31, 2014 | motherjones.com
On Election Day, political campaigns, candidates, consultants, and pollsters pay close attention to who votes and why—and so does Facebook. For the past six years, on every... |
|  | Thu Oct 30, 2014 | theverge.com
In a way, what Tim Cook said today felt inevitable. At least since 2008, when Owen Thomas asked the question in Gawker, a steady accretion of reporting has suggested... |
|  | Fri Nov 10, 2006 | slate.com
Warren Buffett's announcement in June that he was giving $31 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was greeted with near universal... |
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