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Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, said it will acquire Involver, a five-year-old social media software developer, its third sector acquisition in three months.

Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, said it would acquire Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) for $2.4 billion, topping a bid by private equity firms working with its CEO.

Fancy buying a Tuscan ghost town? The medieval village of Pratariccia is now on sale in the unlikeliest of places: eBay. The price: $3 million.

Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, seeking to battle Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, has bid as much as $2.34 billion for Quest Software (Nasdaq: QFST).

Lanai, Hawaii, was once known as the pineapple capital of the world. Then the pineapple plantations became four-star resorts. What's next? That's up to the new owner: American billionaire Larry Ellison.

Larry Ellison, the CEO of software giant Oracle, is said to have paid between $500 million and $600 million for the 141 square mile Pineapple island.

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, reported full-year revenue rose 4 percent to $37.2 billion -- with revenue from the Cloud, or Internet-based computing, reaching a record $1 billion.

American Express, BroadVision, Oracle Corp, Las Vegas Sands, Transocean, Infosys and Western Gas Partners are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Tuesday.

Wall Street's pessimistic outlook on corporate profits was proved wrong by surprisingly strong first-quarter results. However, will the second-quarter earnings season tell a different story?

Now that the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, has lost 32 percent of its value, technology giants including International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) are on a shopping spree. That may chill the IPO pipeline.

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, said it had agreed to acquire private Collective Intellect to bolster its Cloud capabilities for software-as-a-service functions.

Google Inc's Android mobile platform has not infringed Oracle Corp's patents, a California jury decided, putting an indefinite hold on Oracle's quest for damages in a legal fight between the two Silicon Valley giants over smartphone technology.

Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database company, said it would acquire private cloud media marketer Vitrue for an undisclosed sum a day after German rival SAP (NYSE: SA), Europe's No. 1 software company, offered to acquire e-commerce specialist Ariba Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA) for $4.3 billion.

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has agreed Tuesday to buy Internet commerce company Ariba Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA) for $4.3 billion, as the German business software giant looks to expand its cloud-based services and challenge rival Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL).

In 1999, Andrew Grove, then Chairman of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), the No. 1 chipmaker, published a bestseller, ?Only the Paranoid Survive.?

Shares of BMC Software, which specializes in enterprise products, soared nearly 10 percent after Elliott Associates, the venerable New York hedge fund, said it has acquired a stake above 5 percent.

New Labor Department data suggests a strong start to jobs growth in January may not get wiped out by negative growth heading into the third quarter.

Shares of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's biggest database developer, fell despite the company?s apparent victory over Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, in a vicious patent lawsuit.

Google Inc infringed some of Oracle Corp's copyrights on the Java programming language, a U.S. jury found on Monday after days of deliberation.

An Oracle Corp attorney ruled out a settlement with Hewlett-Packard Co in a bitter lawsuit over the Itanium microprocessor, a day after the judge refused to resolve the case for either side before trial.

Now that the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden?s death shed renewed light on the ?needle in the haystack? side of data analysis that helped catch him, investors might wonder how to take advantage of it.

It?s not just enterprises and government agencies that are already starting to benefit from the new era of so-called ?Big Data.? Consumers are already beneficiaries, even if they don?t know it.

Early Android OS revenue numbers have been revealed in a series of slides pertaining to the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), the No. 2 computer company, plans to acquire private Vivisimo, a data analytics specialist, to bolster its push into handling ?Big Data.?

Google's former CEO told jurors that he was confident that the Android smartphone platform was developed legally, and that top executives at Sun Microsystems did not object to the project now at the center of a high-stakes court battle.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said in court on Tuesday that he could not recall being told in 2005 that the company needed a license from Sun Microsystems to use the Java programming language.

Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), which developed software to permit enterprise analysis of so-called “Big Data,” saw its shares skyrocket nearly 90 percent in its initial public offering.

The chief executives of Oracle Corp and Google Inc took center stage in court on Tuesday as Google's lawyers argued Oracle is trying to hitch a ride on Google's success after abandoning the idea of building its own smartphone.

Oracle Corp is trying to obtain a share of Android by asserting its intellectual property rights even though it had nothing to do with the development of the smartphone operating system, an attorney for Google said in court.