Verdict in fraud case of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes offers lessons for investors cnb.cx/3nhf6CX

Intel is on the brink of losing its status as the world’s largest chipmaker to Samsung trib.al/UmKQOWR

Apple Net Income (Billions) 2021: 101 '20 : 64 '19: 58 '18: 59 '17: 51 '16: 45 '15: 54 '14: 45 '13: 37 '12: 42 '11: 33 '10: 17 '09: 9.4 '08: 6.8 '07: 4.1 '06: 2.4 '05: 1.6 '04: 0.50 '03: 0.14 '02: 0.02 '01: 0.21 '00: 0.41 '99: 0.63 '98: 0.41 '97: -0.88 '96: -0.87 '95: 0.17 $AAPL

Merck drops the ball in the competition to find an effective Covid pill—allowing rival Pfizer to pick it up and run away with $17 billion in sales trib.al/snZWCmV via Businessweek

How Covid Travel Restrictions Boosted Google’s Bottom Line trib.al/fQvW6NI

Electric truckmaker Nikola Corp. is showing off its longer-range hydrogen-fueled models by hauling beer for Anheuser-Busch around Los Angeles ahead of this weekends’ Super Bowl LVI trib.al/GIxlcUW

UnitedHealth Group outlined benefits of its Optum unit’s proposed $13 billion acquisition of the software and data analytics firm Change Healthcare in response to the Justice Department’s challenge of the deal trib.al/65WYwKV

Russia is no longer requesting Ukraine be 'denazified' and is prepared to let Kyiv join the EU if it remains militarily non-aligned as part of ceasefire negotiations, according to four people briefed on the discussions on.ft.com/3iK65zt

Spanish inflation unexpectedly soars to almost 10% as Russia’s war in Ukraine sends already lofty energy bills higher still trib.al/aM5a5rF

Alphabet helps users reduce their carbon footprint by providing eco-friendly routes in Maps, emissions data in Google Flights, and home-energy-use data with Nest thermostats #TIME100Companies ti.me/3IPYXME

The announcement that #Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s became Twitter’s largest shareholder sent the stock up 27.1% and added almost a billion dollars to Musk’s net worth. trib.al/k718ANf #Twitter #StockMarket

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway buys $4.2bn stake in HP on.ft.com/3jjKMot

Elon Musk lanza una opa para hacerse con todo el capital de Twitter por más de 41.000 millones de dólares, por Elena Lozano 🌾 elespanol.com/invertia/empre…

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who is a large shareholder in Twitter, rejected Elon Musk’s bid of $54.20 per share, saying it doesn’t “come close to the intrinsic value” of the company trib.al/YdfVQX9

Twitter announced it has decided to adopt a limited duration shareholder rights plan, known as a “poison pill,” in response to Tesla CEO #ElonMusk’s $43 billion acquisition offer a day earlier—as the social media company prepares to resist a potential hostile takeover.

Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s bid to take over the company, the biggest move yet for the world’s richest man. Here’s how he got to this point. on.wsj.com/3EKVLRM

Investing Club: Good news for Amazon, Alphabet — despite reopening, analyst sees e-commerce growing fast cnb.cx/3KiRRRv

I love this nugget from Warren Buffett in today’s Berkshire meeting: The best defense against inflation is to be the best at what you do. If you’re the best doctor in town, people will willingly pay you — inflation or not. In other words, excellence commands pricing power.

While macro slowdowns have been a concern for many companies, cloud spending appears to be unaffected as $MSFT, $AMZN, and $GOOG all released strong cloud results. IoT Analytics estimated cloud TAM is enormous and we are still in the early stages.

A partir de Halloween van a entrar 4500 millones $ diarios de recompras de acciones propias hasta finales de año. Factor muy importante.