Warren Buffett’s US company – Berkshire Hathaway intends to invest more than $ 570 million in Snowflake, a cloud technology company.
It was reported after Snowflake announced a price range for its future initial public offering. The company wants to get the estimate of $ 23.7 billion, writes the Financial Times.
Snowflake said that during the listing Berkshire Hathaway and Marc Benioff’s Salesforce Ventures will directly buy of $ 250 million worth of shares from Snowflake. Furthermore, Buffett’s company will buy another block of shared worth more than $ 320 million from one of the investors of Snowflake.
Buffett has long been known for avoiding of investing in the technology sector due to considering its vulnerability to sudden jumps in the stock market. In 2011, he still made a big bet on IBM company, which was later overtaken by competitors in the field of cloud technology. Its shares are about 30% cheaper than at the time when Berkshire Hathaway invested in it. Later Buffett sold shares of IBM and instead invested in Apple.
Snowflake expects that its shares will be able to sell in the IPO from $ 75 to $ 85 per share. The company plans to raise $ 3.24 billion.
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc announced on Saturday that it will be the first platform in the country to accept China’s digital currency. The Central Bank of China will hold its second digital yuan lottery among citizens of Suzhou, near Shanghai on Friday. The total amount of playable digital yuan is 20 million ($ 3.06 […]
According to Bloomberg, citing documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the short-term rental service Airbnb plans to raise $ 2.6 billion in listing in the US and receive an estimate of $ 35 billion. If the company manages to raise $ 2.6 billion, Airbnb’s placement will be the fourth largest IPO in […]
Company representatives, who engaged in the design, construction and equipment for solar power plants, note a significant decline in demand for their services. This is due to instability of the industry and growing debts for “green” electricity. “We are talking about 1260 MW of RES generation that has been launched in the first three quarters […]
This week, IBM announced two acquisitions in the field of cloud computing: financial and analytical IT company TruQua Enterprises and software company Instana. The financial terms of the two agreements were not disclosed. On Monday, IBM announced the acquisition of TruQua, which provides SAP solutions to Fortune 500 companies. SAP is one of the world’s […]
The American company Airbnb, which is the operator of the rental service of the same name, expects to raise $ 1 billion through an initial public offering (IPO). This is stated in a statement posted on Monday on the website of the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission. The company clarifies that its plans are “preliminary […]
The state corporation Saudi Aramco is preparing to place dollar Eurobonds, a source in banking circles said. According to him, the company is considering the possibility of placing up to five tranches of Eurobonds: with a maturity of three years, five years, ten years, as well as thirty and / or fifty years. Starting on […]
German automaker Volkswagen will invest about 73 billion euros over the next five years in electrification, hybrid powertrains and digital technology, the company said in a statement following a meeting of the supervisory board. In particular, about 35 billion euros are planned to be spent on electric cars on battery power, about 11 billion – […]
Shares of Alibaba, up 35.7% since the beginning of the year but down almost 8% this week, rose 5.3% during trading on Friday after China’s largest public company announced second-quarter results financial year 2021, which ended in September. Alibaba’s quarterly report was preceded by news of the termination of the IPO of financial technology company […]
EpiCentre K has bought the Alta Center TC . The object has been pledged to the one of the commercial banks and sold to repay the debt to the financial institution. There are no any official comments from EpiCentre K for this moment. The complex is owned by VK Development – a developer unit of […]
NextNational Bank removes from circulation 25 of coin. From October 1, a coin of this denomination ceases to be a means of payment. This was stated at a briefing by Deputy Head of the NBU Oleksiy Shaban, according to the website. According to him, from October by these coins will not be able to pay […]
NextDuring the pandemic, Delta lost three-quarters of its revenue over the same period last year. The company can avoid layoffs if management and the trade unions will be able to conclude an agreement to cut costs, and the White House will continue to provide subsidies to airlines. Currently, the airline employs 11,200 pilots. Back in […]
NextLast working week, the National Bank, as in the previous five weeks, did not buy or sell currency on the interbank market. This is evidenced by NBU data. In total, since the beginning of the year, the regulator has bought $ 290.5 million on the interbank market and sold $ 70 million. In 2020, the […]
NextBy the information of Interfax-Ukraine, the state Oschadbank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have signed the memorandum of the association about corporate management state bank support on the 25th of November 2016. The parties also have concluded the memorandum about supporting of 50 million euros due to a trade financing program. As […]
NextCompanies Vir Biotechnology, Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) announced the global extension to phase 3 of the COMET-ICE study, which evaluates the effectiveness of monoclonal antibodies – VIR-7831 for early treatment of COVID-19 in patients at high risk of hospitalization. VIR-7831 (also known as GSK4182136) is the fully human monoclonal antibody against SARS-CoV-2, selected for […]
NextToday Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest U.S. bank, reported record losses of $2.4 billion in the second quarter, which was even worse than the bank management and Wall Street analysts expected. For the three months by June 30, Wells Fargo’s loss was $0.66. This is $0.46 worse than analysts’ forecast of $0.20 loss per share. One […]
NextThe largest manufacturer of equipment for laboratory research Thermo Fisher, conclude a purchase deal to buy the Affymetrix company, which develops integrated solutions for genetic researches, for $ 1.3 billion cash. Following the announcement of the transaction, shares of the Affymetrix company sharply increased in price by 50%. Currently, Thermo Fisher estimates Affymetrix estimates at […]
NextOn July 15, OPEC + countries decided at a meeting to gradually increase oil production due to improved demand. “During a meeting of the ministerial monitoring committee, both co-chairs, Russian and Saudi energy ministers Alexander Novak and Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, said that demand for oil was recovering and production could be increased, but the […]
NextPresident of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko has signed the law on the abolition of compulsory registration of foreign investments, which took the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 31 May. This report announced on the website of the President of Ukraine. The law abolishes certain articles of the statutes of the Economic Code of Ukraine and the […]
NextIt may take Nvidia twice as long to get approval for its deal to buy Britain’s largest technology company, Arm Holdings, which is owned by Japanese financial conglomerate SoftBank Group. After the companies announced a $ 40 billion deal last September, the first hurdle was a class action lawsuit from Google, Qualcomm and Microsoft, which […]
NextSince April of this year, Japanese companies and organizations involved in the development of the vaccines that protect against coronavirus infection, periodically experience cyber-attacks. This was announced on Monday, October 19, by Kyodo news agency, with the reference to the experts of the American company CrowdStrike, engaged in the cybersecurity. According to experts of the […]
NextOn January 9, 2017 IFC’s international financial institution, which is a part of the World Bank, has approved the allocation of funds in the amount of $ 37 million for the construction of a grain terminal in the merchant sea port “Yuzhnyi” in Odessa region. At the moment, the parties are waiting for the signing […]
NextNet income of one of the largest manufacturers of digital cameras in the world decreased by 31.6% in 2016 compared to the year 2015. Last year it was equal to the index of 1,298 billion US dollars. These data are shown in the statements of Canon (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), as reported UkrainianForbes. For the […]
NextThe Georgian Industrial Group purchased 25% of the Ukrainian pharmaceutical company, which is 70% owned by the state. Buyer of the is Luraq Investments Limited (Limassol, Cyprus), which is part of the Georgian Industrial Group (Georgian Industrial Group, GIG) bought the last 25% of the insulin producer “Indar”, PJSC (Kyiv). This information was published by […]
NextMany analysts have been predicting for about a year that Apple will merge and sell its services in packages, and today the news agency Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, said it would happen in October, at the same time as the release of the new iPhone 12. Apple shares have responded to rumors of growth, although […]
Next