Berkshire Hathaway Adds $330M to Italian Tech Firm Bending Spoons

Berkshire's second look at a Milan-based consumer-app consolidator is the notable part: the firm's public equities arm is known for large, branded franchises, not for scaling app portfolios. The follow-on suggests conviction in the roll-up model of buying established software brands and running them for cash, rather than in any single product. The open question is whether this signals broader appetite for European consumer-software assets, or remains a one-off bet.