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...Berkshire cut its stake in the printer and PC maker by almost four-fifths DR Horton was up 0.2 per cent....
...Berkshire’s filing showed it had also slashed its holdings of printer and PC maker HP by 78 per cent, selling nearly 80mn shares in the fourth quarter, and had dumped 32 per cent of its stake in media company...
...Company earnings: Investors will be keen to see how the portfolio of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has performed amid a declining stock market and higher borrowing costs when it publishes results tomorrow...
...a vision to create the “Berkshire Hathaway of tech”....
...The legacy HP that Buffett is investing in sells PCs, printers and other hardware peripherals....
...His first triumph was drawing up Apple’s manufacturing operations in China after Jobs lured him to Cupertino, from PC-maker Compaq, in 1998....
...Buffett buys into PCsHP Inc shares are up more than 15 per cent today after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed it had purchased an 11 per cent stake in the computer and printer maker worth $4.2bn...
...That has meant Berkshire Hathaway, the sprawling industrials-to-insurance conglomerate he leads, has often avoided investments in Big Tech companies such as Google....
...Software maker Salesforce.com, US printer maker HP and Texas-based PC and software group Dell Technologies also report this week....
...The fortunes of three Hispanic children from a damaged home are clearly no laughing matter — and that proves a problem for this desperately PC comedy....
...Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer division, told CNBC: “We cannot supply the PC” and said the situation was “unfortunate”....
...Related links: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway buys stake in Apple- FT...
...Big Blue eventually abandoned its five-year promise (its 2015 earnings came in a third below the original plan) and its stock price sagged, leaving the Berkshire Hathaway investment below its cost....
...Up to 3,300 more will go from HP Inc, which will inherit the PC and printer operations....
...Earnings also came in above estimates as the company lifted the profit margins in its PC and printing businesses, although margins shrank in the enterprise computing division....
...company around the PC....
...Since 2000, the company has disposed of businesses including its PC and hard-drive divisions, and increased software’s earnings contribution from 25 per cent to 44 per cent last year....
...Since 2000, the company has disposed of commodity businesses, including its PC and hard-drive divisions, and increased software’s earnings contribution from 25 to 44 per cent last year....
...The Zeus-infected PCs siphon credit card and banking information directly and send them off to criminals....
...Zeus botnet, which is stealing financial data from an estimated 3.6 million PCs in the US alone....
...a recommendation that the PC owners buy protection....
...The film, like the shindig, ends up dissolving in a schmaltzy brew of make-do-and-mend, complete with a sari-clad wedding accompanied by multi-ethnic music, whose PC touchy-feeliness one hopes is a joke...
...With MCI's stock at $21 and rising, as Qwest and Verizon vie for the company, do not expect Leucadia to enter the fray. Why?...
...His investment company Berkshire Hathaway, which he has been running for 39 years, is now capitalised at $133bn....
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