Tech courts its own basketball team

Source: Fortune

By Richard Nieva, reporter FORTUNE -- San Francisco is likely getting a new toy. This week, the NBA's Golden State Warriors announced their intentions to move the Oakland-based team across the bay to San Fran ...
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Capitalism through Hollywood's Lens

Source: National Review Online

This comes on the heels of another teen wunderkind. In December, Angela Zhang, 17, won the Siemens Science Competition for inventing a new way of finding and attacking cancer cells. Some people think it might actually lead to a cure for canc ...
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HP/Autonomy: a necessary gamble

Source: Globe and Mail

That gleeful background noise, as Hewlett-Packard presented its quarterly results on Wednesday, was Larry Ellison giggling. Last autumn, the Oracle boss got into a nasty public back-and-forth with Mike Lynch, then head of Autonomy, ...
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SAP to buy Ariba, boosts cloud bet

Source: Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top European software company SAP AG plans to buy Ariba Inc in a deal valuing the business and commerce network company at $4.3 billion, its latest maneuver against Oracle in the fast-growing Internet-based computing market. SAP ...
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Ellison, other top execs to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

Source: ComputerWorld

IDG News Service - During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and curr ...
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Mike Lynch's fall from grace as 'Britain's Bill Gates'

Source: The Telegraph

One analyst who criticised the firm for counting research and development investment as an asset on its balance sheet, rather than a cost to be written down, was banned from meetings. Meanwhile, a steady stream of acquisit ...
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Who are tech's 50 highest paid CEOs?

Source: InfoWorld

Oracle's Larry Ellison has been the highest paid tech chief on our list each year since Network World started tracking CEO compensation, but his $77.6 million pay package was bested by another tech CEO's enormous windfall i ...
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Java Jurors Douse Oracle's Hopes

Source: E-Commerce Times

Executives at Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) no doubt are heaving signs of relief at the outcome of the latest -- and possibly last -- phase of the Java copyright and patent trial: The jury unanimously found that Google did not infringe Oracle's ...
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Google didn't infringe on Oracle patents, jury rules

Source: FOX News

A federal jury ruled Wednesday that Google didn't infringe on Oracle's patents when the Internet search leader developed its popular Android software for mobile devices. Wednesday's verdict comes about two weeks after the ...
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