mark zuckerberg who is selling more than 41 million shares of the company stock. that s about $2.3 billion worth of the social network. facebook says most of that money will go toward paying taxes. another financial move, zuckerberg will contribute some of the money to charities. another billionaire in the headlines is warren buffett who apparently had a better year in the stock market than the rest of us did. one study shows that buffett s fortune at least on paper climbed to over $59 billion this year alone. that, by the way, is up nearly $13 billion from last year, and breaking the numbers down, that means that buffett added $37 million a day or $1.5 million an hour to his already very large cash pile. that is hard to wrap your brain around. wow. i you know my plan is to win $59 mega millions jackpots in a row. yeah. we ll be chilling. that was a minute, an hour?
that s about $2.3 billion worth of the social network. facebook says most of that money will go toward paying taxes. another financial move, zuckerberg will contribute some of the money to charities. another billionaire in the headlines is warren buffett who apparently had a better year in the stock market than the rest of us did. one study shows that buffett s fortune at least on paper climbed to over $59 billion this year alone. that, by the way, is up nearly $13 billion from last year, and breaking the numbers down, that means that buffett added $37 million a day or $1.5 million an hour to his already very large cash pile. that is hard to wrap your brain around. wow. i you know my plan is to win $59 mega millions jackpots in a row. yeah. we ll be chilling. that was a minute, an hour? big stuff. my stomach hurts.
there might be more? yeah, here s the thing. private equity was bidding $4.7 billion. but what i was wondering, if this company is worth so much money in terms of its messaging service, its cash pile, the customers who still use blackberry oig, where were the industry buyers. now it appears the likes of cisco and google and s.a.p. are taking a look at certain parts of the business and may be interested this buying that which makes a lot more sense when you think about it gech given the valuation on the bid. of course they have the push technology with e-mail and their patents are valuable, too. steve sedgwick, thank you very much. an out of this world opening for the movie gravity.
they focus laser like. they are serious about fining cures and changing the way we live. it s do. it s important for those of us who aren t in the trenches following technology who think of google it s the search engine the thing on my browser it helps me find cute cats on the internet. that s a core part of google s business. but they are doing these huge innovates, t initiatives. driverless cars. in 10, 15 years this may be how we re living. think of the 10, 15 years ago and if you talk about google then which no one was and just in a relatively short time of span 10, 12 years now this. the company is 15 years old. they have a stock cash pile of $ $54 billion.
and to rear that child today could be about $241,000. these numbers don t include the cost of sending that kid on to college. now to business, where later today we are going to get a look at the weekly jobless claims as well as some other economic key data. the fate of the fed stimulus program continues to impact the markets, all three indices were down yesterday with the dow falling more than 100 points. for more on today s business headlines we say good morning to jeff cutmore who is live in london. good morning, thomas. well, latest filings are through from some of the big institutional fund managers and what we see george soros doubling his position in apple just a day after we learned carl icahn tweeted he thinks this say big turnaround story. the attractive thing is the big cash pile they hope the company will start handing back to shareholders. moving you along we have charges filed in the jpmorgan story. this is about the $6 billion