This week’s business news might have begun with coverage of Berkshire Hathaway’s 50th anniversary and the announcement of Cisco’s new CEO, but the week ended on a much different note with Yelp opening itself to a buyout and Syngenta rejecting a potential takeover by Monsanto.
What follows are what Talking Biz News views to be the top 10 stories of the week:
Monday
- Sheryl Sandberg’s husband Goldberg died after hotel gym accident: official, by Gabriel Stargardter and Sarah McBride of Yahoo! Finance
- Berkshire’s Warren Buffett shows his teddy bear image has tough side, by Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times
Tuesday
- Why Cisco’s CEO switch could spell a sweet trade, by Alex Rosenberg of CNBC
- IBM and Facebook team up to make ads that know even more about you, by Sapna Maheshwari of BuzzFeed
Wednesday
- Tesla’s Elon Musk ‘hopes’ Apple gets into car business, by Brooke Crothers of Forbes
- JPMorgan probed over role in French tax evasion case, by Chine Labbe, David Henry and Laurence Frost of Reuters
Thursday
- Uber said to bid up to $3 billion for Nokia mapping unit, by Tom Huddleston Jr. of Fortune
- Yelp explodes on deal talk; stocks gain ahead of jobs report, by Keris Alison Lahiff of TheStreet
Friday
- Lumber Liquidators suspends sales of laminate flooring from China, by Rachel Abrams of The New York Times
- Syngenta rejects unsolicited Monsanto takeover offer valued at about $45 billion, by Andrew Morse and Jacob Bunge of The Wall Street Journal
