Warren E. Buffett announced on Wednesday that he donated $2.9 billion worth of stock to nonprofit groups, as the 89-year-old billionaire investor continues to follow through on his pledge to give away nearly all his fortune to philanthropic causes by the time he dies. Mr. Buffett said in a statement that he had given shares in Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate that he has run for decades, to five organizations: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, the nonprofit named for his late wife; and three groups founded by his children, Howard, Peter and Susie. Over that time, he has given about $37 billion worth of Berkshire stock, as measured by the value of the shares when they were donated. The stock that Mr. Buffett still holds is worth around $67 billion.

The lockdown in key yachting hubs on both sides of the Atlantic, travel restrictions and the general market sentiment put several sales transactions on hold, with some buyers waiting to finalize the yacht sales process and others waiting to have a better picture of Covid-19’s impact on the markets. From January to May, a total of 345 yachts that were 24m and above were newly listed for sale, 209 of which were motor yachts and 36 sailing yachts. The number of yachts listed on the market during the first quarter was 28% lower than in previous years, with 482 yachts listed during the same period in 2019. In 2018, IYC was #1 in number of yachts sold, accounting for 11% market share of total yachts sold above 25 meters, with a similar performance in 2019.

Do you want to talk about it or do you feel like you have to talk about it?This is not something they want to talk about, it’s something they have had to talk about. Why do you want to talk about it or why do you not want to talk about it?When something happens on social media and you decide you either want to talk about it or feel like you have to talk about, it’s crucial you determine is ‘why’ you feel this way.

What are intangible assets and why are they important?Intangible assets are defined by The International Glossary of Business Valuation Terms (IGBVT) as “non-physical assets such as franchises, trademarks, patents, copyrights, goodwill, equities, mineral rights, securities, and contracts (as distinguished from physical assets) that grant rights and privileges, and have value for the owner.” Technology, brands, and data typically comprise the most valuable intangible assets. Why do we need to value intangible assets?Understanding the economic worth of intangibles will be particularly important in the context of developing and implementing key enterprise objectives; commercialization (e.g. licensing or selling intangible assets); investing in R&D; selling or buying a business; raising capital; litigation and insolvency.

Building strong personal relationships with customers and your professional network creates an unbreakable support system for your business and employees. Near the start of 2020, our customer success teams redoubled efforts to engage with our customers. We implemented a new health scorecard so we could monitor how each account is doing, and the team made an extra effort to make personal contact with each customer to see how they are during this particularly difficult time. This helped me to make better decisions and to improve my personal connection to these customers.

Facebook’s two top executives, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, met virtually with civil rights groups yesterday to address their concerns over how the social network treats hate speech, the source of a growing advertiser boycott at the site.“The company’s leaders delivered the same old talking points to try to placate us without meeting our demands,” said Jessica J. González of the advocacy group Free Press, who was on the call.• The groups presented a list of demands, which included Facebook hiring an executive with a civil rights background and submitting to regular independent audits of its practices. Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg agreed on the civil rights position, but attendees said that there was no resolution on most of the other requests.

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, and other major oil producing countries are likely to increase their output in August, as coronavirus lockdowns ease and demand begins to rise again. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and other producers are expected to modestly ease the record production cuts that they agreed to in April and later extended through July.A committee of key officials from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia will meet on Wednesday by video conference to discuss their approach to the market. The oil producing countries want to make sure that they maintain or increase their share of the recovering market.

After years of declines in revenue and print circulation, the McClatchy Company, one of the largest news publishers in the country, announced on Sunday that it expected to become the property of Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey hedge fund, at the conclusion of a bankruptcy auction. Chatham, an investor in the company since 2009, is its largest creditor. The firm put together the bid that has been declared the winner in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court auction supervised by Judge Michael E. Wiles, a McClatchy spokeswoman said on Sunday. Under the terms of the bid, Chatham is expected to become the majority owner in the third quarter of the year, and the publicly traded McClatchy will become a private company.

If you're not spending a lot of time with anyone, but specifically those who make you happy, this will severely impact your happiness, business, and eventually, health. Even though combining these three streams create the maximum impact on happiness, using them as separate streams will make life happier, more joyful, and in the long term, create more success for you as a well-balanced entrepreneur. Whether it's through (social) engagement, environments, or experiences, having diversity in the creating of joy will create sustainable, long-term happiness, even in the most stressful of times. Take this time to create more streams of happiness.

A little-known start-up, Parrot Analytics, says it has come up with a metric that can measure what a program means to a streamer like Netflix. From there, Parrot says, it can anticipate what matters most to a streaming network: how many subscribers a show is likely to attract.“We could each be watching different shows, on different platforms, at different times,” Mr. Seger, 32, said. Parrot tracks what Mr. Seger calls “demand expressions” — a twitchy metric he helped devise that, he said, takes into account a host of “signals” across the internet.

Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., will reopen on Saturday, and Disney has been posting marketing videos online to highlight the safety procedures it has designed to protect visitors and employees.“I feel safe because Disney has gone above and beyond what they needed to do,” an employee named Sam says in one of them while standing near Fantasyland. Others were incredulous, with people using words like “irresponsible” and “disappointing.” Disney World is reopening?But in doing so Disney is stepping into a politicized debate surrounding the virus and efforts to keep people safe, where even the wearing of masks has become a point of bitter contention.

SAN FRANCISCO — Auditors handpicked by Facebook to examine its policies said that the company had not done enough to protect people on the platform from discriminatory posts and ads and that its decisions to leave up President Trump’s inflammatory posts were “significant setbacks for civil rights.”Now Facebook has to decide whether its approach to hateful speech and noxious content — which was to leave it alone in the name of free expression — remains tenable. And that decision puts pressure on Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, who has repeatedly said that his company was not an arbiter of truth and that it would not police politicians’ posts.“Many in the civil rights community have become disheartened, frustrated and angry after years of engagement where they implored the company to do more to advance equality and fight discrimination, while also safeguarding free expression,” wrote the auditors, Laura W. Murphy and Megan Cacace, who are civil rights experts and lawyers.