Just minutes after this morning's announcement that Berkshire Hathaway is paying $26 billion to acquire the 77 percent of Burlington Northern Santa Fe it doesn't already own, Warren Buffett spoke live by phone with Becky Quick and Joe Kernen on CNBC's Squawk Box.  This is the complete transcript of their conversation.   Read More

These days in the newspaper industry, you can't expect positive news to come from an ad increase - the only upside is when cost-cutting works.   Read More

The much-anticipated deal has been done: McGraw Hill announced Tuesday afternoon that it will sell the 80-year-old weekly magazine to Bloomberg.    Read More

The big question looming over the newspaper and publishing business, is how to get consumers to pay for content online.   Read More

Now that The Washington Post Co. has ended its long-standing partnership with the Los Angeles Times it's launching a new service with Bloomberg News, honing in on its expertise with political and economic news.   Read More

This week all eyes are on Gannett; its stock has been flying higher, up more than 500 percent excluding dividends since hitting a low of $1.95 in March.   Read More

Dow Jones is reportedly shopping around its stock market indexes, working with Goldman Sachs to investigate finding a joint venture or a flat-out buyer.   Read More

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was doing more selling than buying of stocks during the second quarter, but there is one new holding: New Jersey-based medical technology company Becton Dickinson.  Berkshire also added to its stake in Johnson & Johnson, although the holdings are still well below where they were before Buffett sold over 33 million shares last fall.   Read More

Newspapers are shuttering left and right, and the nation's papers of record are losing money. But while the number of traditional journalists dwindle, a new kind of newsgathering is booming, particularly in covering the political upheaval in Iran.    Read More

The seventh annual "D: All Things Digital" conference, which is hosted by the Wall Street Journal, kicked off with a brief introduction from News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and a Q&A with Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone.   Read More