Berkshire Hathaway’s shopping extravaganza draws lighter crowds as spotlight shifts to Greg Abel

Berkshire Hathaway’s shopping extravaganza draws lighter crowds as spotlight shifts to Greg Abel

Squishmallow display at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 1, 2026. Sarah Min | CNBC OMAHA, Nebraska — At the cavernous exhibit hall inside CHI Health Center Omaha, the annual “Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains” is still stocked with fan-favorite deals, just with a bit more breathing room this year. The 20,000-square-foot…

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Video shows Cole Allen casing hotel, storming checkpoint in alleged Trump assassination attempt

Video shows Cole Allen casing hotel, storming checkpoint in alleged Trump assassination attempt

Dramatic surveillance video released Thursday shows alleged would-be assassin Cole Tomas Allen casing a hallway at the Washington Hilton Hotel on April 24, and then the next evening, storming through a Secret Service checkpoint at that hotel outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where President Donald Trump was set to give a speech. The…

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Pearson reports 4% sales growth in Q1, affirms guidance

Pearson reports 4% sales growth in Q1, affirms guidance

Investing.com — said on Friday that underlying group sales rose 4% in the first quarter, and reaffirmed its full-year guidance. The British education company said all of its business units performed in line with expectations. Pearson highlighted strong performance in Virtual Learning, where underlying sales jumped 21%, driven by strong enrolment momentum in the current academic year,…

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Samsung profit surges over eight-fold to beat estimates as AI boom fuels memory chip crunch

Samsung profit surges over eight-fold to beat estimates as AI boom fuels memory chip crunch

The Samsung exhibition stand features the prominent ”A new era of mobile agentic AI” slogan by the South Korean company Samsung Electronics. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Samsung Electronics reported an over eight-fold increase in first-quarter operating profits on Thursday, hitting a new record and beating analysts’ estimates on the explosive growth of…

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