What Happened? Shares of domain name registry operator Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) fell 8.5% in the morning session after news that major shareholder Berkshire Hathaway sold a significant portion of its ...

Union Pacific offers $20 billion cash and one share of its stock to buy Norfolk Southern Tuesday in a merger that could trigger the final wave of railroad mergers across the country.

The blockbuster deal raises the odds that Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which owns the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, ...

Berkshire Hathaway sold about one-third of its stake in VeriSign , an internet infrastructure and domain name registry ...

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Buybacks can continue for as long as Berkshire has at least $30 billion in cash and equivalents on its balance sheet. Since ...