[hkmurakami]

Buffet buying a stake in a technology company. Never thought I'd see the day.

[charlesdm]

He probably realised they're going to sell it for nothing close to its actual value.

[rebelde]

In many respects, Yahoo is more of a publisher, a content provider, than a tech company. That makes it more like the newspaper business that he knows well.

[godzillabrennus]

He bought into ibm

[bbody]

Unlike most technology companies, IBM has been around since before Warren was born. But in general he doesn't buy into technology companies, he is well quoted in that regard.

[pyvpx]

I know they have a quantum computer, Watson AI, and that Power architecture...but isn't IBM primarily a sales and consulting company? at least, by revenue and headcount?

[biofox]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Research

According to Wikipedia, they are also the world's largest industrial research organization.

[orbifold]

IBM spends a lot of money on research and development, as far as I can tell they just usually exit markets that don't have high margins.

[abhi3]

Is yahoo really a technology company? IMO it's more of a media company.

[fma]

Anything that publishes content for public consumption to get advertising revenue is a media company. Google publishes search results to get ads. Facebook published your information for ads. Twitter publishes your tweets for ads.

I heard on the radio that someone proclaimed Facebook is now a media company...no, they've always been a media company.