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Amazon’s Healthcare Plans Include Insurance, AI Utility
Amazon’s Healthcare Plans Include Insurance, AI Utility
February 21, 2019  |  Amazon

Ever since Amazon turned its gaze to healthcare, questions about the eCommerce operator’s plans and intentions have outnumbered answers. That’s still true, and may remain...

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Berkshire’s Munger Weighs In On ‘Stupid’ Tax Policies … And Much Else
Berkshire’s Munger Weighs In On ‘Stupid’ Tax Policies … And Much Else
February 15, 2019  |  Taxes

To paraphrase an old investment ad campaign: “When Charlie Munger speaks, people listen.” After all, Munger has had a storied career spanning decades with Warren...

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Buffett Hungry For Banking Stake In India?
Buffett Hungry For Banking Stake In India?
December 07, 2018  |  Investments

Is India proving a lure, once again, for the “Oracle of Omaha?” Reuters reported that the famed value investor’s favored investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway, is...

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Berkshire Hathaway Has Been Investing In FinTech This Year
Berkshire Hathaway Has Been Investing In FinTech This Year
October 29, 2018  |  Investments

Berkshire Hathaway, the Warren Buffett investment company, has been getting in on the FinTech market, investing hundreds of millions of dollars during the past few...

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Prime Members Say Yes To Amazon Prescriptions
Prime Members Say Yes To Amazon Prescriptions
September 12, 2018  |  Amazon

A new study by Deutsche Bank has found that 85 percent of insured Amazon Prime members would buy prescription drugs from the eCommerce giant. In...

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Square And India Commerce Sizzle While The Krona And US Debt Fizzle
Square And India Commerce Sizzle While The Krona And US Debt Fizzle
August 31, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Sizzle Square: The firm, touted by some on the sell side as “FinTech’s best idea,” had a stock boost this week. At the same time,...

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Parsing Buffett/Berkshire’s Paytm Push
Parsing Buffett/Berkshire’s Paytm Push
August 27, 2018  |  Investments

Call it a $285 million shot across the digital payments bow. A new embrace of high tech, and a notable one for a famed investor...

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Berkshire Hathaway Eyes Stake In Paytm
Berkshire Hathaway Eyes Stake In Paytm
August 27, 2018  |  South Asia

Reports are emerging that the sage of Omaha, Warren Buffet, is in talks to pick up a stake in Paytm, India’s largest digital payment player....

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Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Healthcare Venture Finds A CEO
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Healthcare Venture Finds A CEO
June 21, 2018  |  Personnel

Well-regarded surgeon and author Atul Gawande has been named CEO of the new healthcare company formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase. Earlier this...

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