Oracle Stories
Oracle Snaps Up Endeca, Bolsters Unstructured Data Line
Oracle announced plans to acquire privately held Endeca, a leader in business intelligence analysis to explore unstructured data.
IBM shares fall as tech-spend worries loom
Shares of IBM fell 5 percent in pre-market trading on Tuesday after Big Blue's third-quarter beat failed to stem worries about a slowdown in tech spending.
U.S. Stock Futures Point to Lower Opening
U.S. stock futures point to lower opening on Tuesday after new data showed that Chinese economy has expanded at a slower rate in the third quarter and quarterly results from IBM failed to impress investors.
Oracle competitor Tidemark launches, wins more cash
Cloud-based analytics company Tidemark took the wraps off its business after two years in stealth mode, and announced a new funding round.
IBM’s Earnings Beat Estimates: Could They Be Tech Bellwether?
IBM, the No. 2 global technology company, reported third-quarter results that narrowly beat analyst expectations. They could be a bellwether for the entire technology sector.
IBM’s Earnings: Bellwether for the Tech Industry
IBM, the No. 2 global technology company, is scheduled to report third-quarter results late Monday. They could be a bellwether for the entire technology sector.
Yahoo: Are KKR and Blackstone Joining the Takeover Fray?
Add some more private equity bigfeet to the cluster that may be looking to acquire Yahoo: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone Group.
Memo to Tim Cook: With iCloud, Learn from BlackBerry Outage or Else!
Dear Tim Cook, Apple CEO: Now that you are essentially betting Apple on iOS 5 and a whole family of iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macs that run it, you've just been handed a great case study by your Canadian rival, Research in Motion. For three days, BlackBerry customers worldwide couldn't access e-mails. This, the company said, was due to a server problem in England.
Can Box.net Challenge Amazon and Microsoft in the Cloud?
Box.net raised $81 million in funding on Monday. The cloud computing company is the darling of Silicon Valley, but can it compete with the likes of Amazon or Microsoft?
Foreign Profit Tax Break was Costly Bomb: Report
Congress should not endorse another big tax break for overseas corporate profits because the last one in 2004-2005 was a costly failure, said U.S. congressional investigators in a report released on Monday.
Infosys, TCS to Show Sales Growth; Outlook Uncertain
India's software services companies are set to report strong revenue growth when they kick off their quarterly earnings next week. However, a slowing U.S. economy and the debt crisis in Europe may crimp orders.
Larry Ellison Announces Building of Oracle Public Cloud
Oracle Corp. announced it is building Oracle Public Cloud, a cloud service to host many of its key software products, including Java, database, middleware, and customer-relationship-management applications.
IBM’s Watson Fellow: ‘Jeopardy’ Strategy Wasn’t Just a Game but Template for Future Computing
IBM’s Watson supercomputer’s “Jeopardy” championship should only be the start of many new commercial opportunities, the company’s VP for Emerging Technologies said.
Oracle New Products to Keep the Engine Firing
FBR Capital Markets attended Oracle Corp.’s financial analyst meeting and its annual user conference OpenWorld this week.
Oracle Announces Roadmap for Java
Oracle has announced JavaFX 2.0 and its plans to move Java forward and continue investment in mobile platforms such as Java ME and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile in the OpenWorld conference.
Oracle to pay $199.5 million to resolve false claims case
Oracle Corp has agreed to pay $199.5 million plus interest to settle allegations that the software giant failed to give promised discounts to the federal government, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
Have CEO Severance Packages Gotten Out of Hand?
The whole process is to ensure that compensation is aligned with shareholder interest, Steve Rabitz, an attorney with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan who specializes in executive compensation, told International Business Times. But shareholders sometimes are angered by executive packages they believe are increasingly over-the-top.
Oracle Big Data Appliance Is Watching You
Though Oracle has always had a presence in the enterprise arena, yet now it appears the tech giant is moving into a new area - and that area is big data. Big data, which is a catch-all term for data sets that are so large they become difficult to process, is becoming a greater issue as sites such as Facebook amass increasingly unwieldy data sets that contain valuable information.
Oracle Public Cloud: Making Play for Platform a Service
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced the general availability of Fusion Applications during Wednesday evening's keynote and unveiled the company's new Platform-as-a-Service and Social Network offerings.
Oracle poised to expand cloud offerings
Oracle Corp is preparing to expand its offerings in cloud computing, one of the fastest-growing areas of the technology sector, the company said on Wednesday ahead of a speech by Chief Executive Larry Ellison.
Oracle Poised to Expand Dloud Offerings
Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) is preparing to expand its offerings in cloud computing, one of the fastest-growing areas of the technology sector, the company said on Wednesday ahead of a speech by Chief Executive Larry Ellison.
Salesforce drama steals show at Oracle conference
Salesforce.com Inc scored a coup by publicizing a dispute with rival Oracle Corp over something seemingly as mundane as the timing of a speech.
Oracle trial v. Google likely to be postponed: judge
A high stakes patent trial between Oracle and Google will likely be postponed beyond its currently scheduled October 31 start date, a U.S. judge said in a court filing.
Salesforce.com, Oracle in public tiff over keynote
Salesforce.com Inc and Oracle Corp engaged in a public spat over a keynote speech on Wednesday, highlighting the software companies' increasingly bitter rivalry.
Oracle source denies cancelling Benioff keynote
A source at Oracle Corp denied the company had canceled the keynote speech of Salesforce.com Inc Chief Executive Marc Benioff at Oracle OpenWorld and said Oracle had instead changed the time of the speech.
Salesforce’s CEO Oracle Talk Scrubbed: Is Takeover Ahead?
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote address to Oracle World was scratched in a move the former Oracle VP didn’t understand.
U.S. Stock Futures Signal More Losses for Equities
Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open on Wall Street on Monday after steep declines in the previous session, with futures for the S&P 500, for the Dow Jones and for the Nasdaq 100 down 0.6-0.9 percent.
Oracle's Ellison Shows Off New Tech Hardware
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison unveiled new all-in-one data center products as the world's No.3 software maker steps up its move into the hardware market.
Oracle OpenWorld: What You Need to Know
Information technology people unite! It's OpenWorld time and here's what you need to know.
The Final 'Kodak Moment': 5 Reasons Why Bankruptcy Would Be Tragic
Now that Kodak shares trade at only 78 cents, the collapse of the imaging icon would be a technology tragedy and a black eye for the U.S.


