OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) -Warren Buffett on Saturday gave a full-throated endorsement to the five Japanese trading houses in which his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK/A ) has invested. Buffett spoke at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, 1-1/2 months after Berkshire said it raised its stakes in Itochu ( ITOCF ), Marubeni ( MARUF ), Mitsubishi ( MSBHF ),...

May 3 (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway's ( BRK/A ) Geico car insurance unit has made progress in upgrading its technology to better match rates with risk, Berkshire Vice Chairman Ajit Jain said on Saturday. Jain, who has day-to-day oversight of Berkshire's insurance operations, spoke at the conglomerate's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska where he, Chairman Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

OMAHA (Reuters) -Warren Buffett warned of the perils of excessive tariffs, saying they should not be a weapon and that the United States would be more prosperous if other countries were. Buffett spoke at Berkshire Hathaway's ( BRK/A ) annual meeting on Saturday, after the conglomerate he built over 60 years showed it remained cautious about markets, allowing its cash...