What Silicon Valley looked like during the early days of the tech boom
Silicon Valley wasn't always synonymous with app developers and venture capitalists — but it sure attracted them.Even before the '60s, the region was home to dozens of companies developing silicon...
View ArticleOracle claims that Amazon tried to woo Pentagon officials with ‘undisclosed...
The battle for the $10 billion Defense Department JEDI contract escalated after Oracle accused Amazon of making "undisclosed employment and bonus offers to Pentagon staff" in an amended lawsuit. Amazon...
View ArticleHuawei is about to unveil an AI-powered rival to Oracle databases that an...
Huawei on Wednesday will introduce a new AI-powered database system powered by ARM chips.An analyst called the move "the first salvo in the US-Chinese database wars."Huawei is at the center of an...
View ArticleTrump's blacklist of Huawei has serious implications for Red Hat, Oracle,...
US companies caught up in the quagmire of President Donald Trump's blacklist on Huawei extend far beyond Google, Intel, Broadcom, and Qualcomm.Many enterprise software companies sell their wares to the...
View Article10 CEOs who didn't find success until later in life
Not all CEOs were as young as Mark Zuckerberg when their businesses took off.Some of the biggest names in business didn't have their million-dollar ideas until their late 30s or past their 40s.CEOs...
View ArticleAs Oracle's growth stagnates, insiders say that its all-important cloud...
Employees tell us that Oracle has been quietly laying off thousands of people all spring and that they fear there's more to come.A Wall Street analyst said that Oracle's growth had been paltry at best...
View ArticleTop execs at longtime rivals Microsoft and Oracle explain why they just came...
Microsoft and Oracle signed a surprise agreement in which the longtime rivals will work together to make their Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud platforms interoperable.That means developers can have...
View ArticleOracle revoked job offers for some people in the UK, blaming a hiring freeze....
Oracle's massive reorganization is still in progress, according to three employees Business Insider has talked to.The company revoked at least some job offers in the UK at the last minute, blaming a...
View ArticleOracle Chairman Larry Ellison says the company added 5,000 new trials for its...
Despite a rough quarter characterized by layoffs, Oracle reported a solid Q4, beating Wall Streets expectations on both revenues and profits.Chairman Larry Ellison says that the company has added over...
View ArticleOracle is on pace for a record high after spiking on strong earnings (ORCL)
Oracle climbed as much as 8% on Thursday morning after the firm reported better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter. The cloud and database company is set to open at a record high, which it...
View ArticleOracle spent $36 billion in one year buying its own stock back, and it raises...
One of the oldest tricks in the book to keep investors happy when a company is going through a major transition is the stock buyback.Oracle has adopted this tactic with gusto in 2019.Big buybacks offer...
View ArticleLarry Ellison explains why he's cautiously optimistic that Oracle's new cloud...
Oracle has been going through a major transition, including layoffs and internal politics, as it revamps itself into a cloud computing contender. But Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder and chairman shared...
View ArticleLarry Ellison explains Oracle's restructuring and layoffs: Some of our...
Oracle has been conducting rolling layoffs worldwide since March, impacting all sorts of units, including its all-important cloud divisions.On Wednesday, Oracle founder, chairman and CTO Larry Ellison...
View ArticleOracle lawsuit is giving Microsoft a very good chance of winning the $10...
Amazon had been favored over Microsoft to win the JEDI contract for the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing platform.But an analyst says Oracle's aggressive challenge to the bid process may have...
View ArticleThe 10 highest-paid tech CEOs in the US
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) issued a report on the highest-paid tech CEOs of 2018.Oracle, PayPal, and DXC Technology are the S&P 500 tech...
View ArticleThe Pentagon stands by its decision to reject Oracle’s bid for the $10...
The Pentagon said Oracle is "not in the same class" as rivals Microsoft and Amazon, the finalists in the contract bid process for the $10 billion JEDI cloud project.Oracle had filed a lawsuit...
View ArticleAlmost 40% of LGBTQ tech employees that participated in a survey said they've...
Blind, an anonymous workplace chat app, recently polled its users who work in the tech industry about LGBTQ sentiment at their companies.The data shows that while a majority of LGBTQ employees who...
View ArticleThe life and rise of billionaire Oracle founder and international playboy...
Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder and CTO of Oracle, has a net worth of $68.4 billion, according to Forbes.He joined his "close friend"Elon Musk on Tesla's board of directors in December...
View ArticleIBM is spinning off its advertising business, IBM Watson Marketing, and it...
IBM is spinning off its IBM Watson Marketing arm.New CEO Mark Simpson said the new company would be "the largest independent marketing cloud" and poised to take on Adobe, Oracle, and...
View ArticleA judge is getting tired of the sniping in the Oracle wage and hiring bias...
A San Francisco judge has grown frustrated with a heated tit-for-tat between Oracle and the Labor Department in a wage bias case filed against the tech giant.Judge Richard Clark has ordered the two...
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