Mumbai: Microsoft India on Thursday bagged the Randstad Award 2012 for the 'most attractive employer' in the country for the second consecutive year followed by Oracle India and Tata Consultancy Services. The Randstad Award 2012 was also given to Volkswagen India and Nokia India as special recognition in the auto and consumer durables industry sector, respectively. The award, instituted globally by leading HR services provider Randstad, aims to encourage best...
11:23 PM, Apr 26, 2012
San Francisco: A Google engineer, testifying in a high-stakes trial pitting Oracle Corp against Google Inc, denied that he referred to Oracle or any other company when he wrote in an email that Google should take a license to use the Java programming language. The trial entered its fourth day on Thursday, with Google engineer Timothy Lindholm taking the stand to answer questions about a 2010 email that has become...
12:59 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Boston: Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chief Executive Warren Buffett said he has stage 1 prostate cancer but his condition "is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way." Buffett, the world's third-richest man, will begin a two-month treatment consisting of daily radiation treatments starting in mid-July, he said in a statement on Tuesday. This will limit his ability to travel during that time, Buffett added. The news from the...
08:32 AM, Apr 18, 2012
San Francisco: Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison said the software maker had considered building its own smartphone to compete with Apple Inc and Google Inc, but decided it was a "bad idea" after a weeks-long cost and market analysis. As part of that exhaustive internal analysis, he said, Oracle had pondered at one point buying Blackberry-maker Research in Motion Ltd and Palm - a smartphone maker scooped up by...
08:32 AM, Apr 18, 2012
California: A US judge scheduled a trial between Oracle Corp and Google Inc for April 16, 2012, over claims Google violated Oracle's intellectual property rights relating to the Java programming language, according to a ruling on Tuesday. The trial is set to take place in a San Francisco federal court. Oracle sued Google in 2010, alleging the Web search leader's Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle's Java patents. In addition...
11:05 AM, Mar 14, 2012
San Francisco: Oracle Corp accused Hewlett-Packard of "secretly" contracting with Intel Corp to keep Intel's Itanium microprocessor from being phased out, according to a court filing from Oracle in its long-running legal battle with HP over the Itanium platform. According to Oracle's filing, HP and Intel forged a "contractual commitment" to keep Itanium going through the next two generations of microprocessors, despite HP's previous statements that Intel's decision to keep...
01:03 PM, Nov 19, 2011
New York: Software company Oracle Corp. said Monday that it is buying RightNow Technologies Inc. for about $1.5 billion so it can offer a broader range of software and services that help businesses manage customer service. Oracle is offering $43 per share for the tech service company from Bozeman, Montana That is a 19.6 per cent premium over RightNow's closing price of $35.96 on Friday. On Monday, RightNow's stock rose...
02:44 PM, Oct 26, 2011
New York: Software company Oracle Corp. said on Monday that it is buying RightNow Technologies Inc. for about $1.5 billion so it can offer a broader range of software and services that help businesses manage customer service. Oracle is offering $43 per share for the tech service company from Bozeman, Mont. That is a 19.6 per cent premium over RightNow's closing price of $35.96 on Friday. On Monday, RightNow's stock...
09:33 AM, Oct 25, 2011
San Francisco: Oracle Corp may use an internal Google Inc email Google fought to keep under wraps in a high stakes patent case over the Java programming language, a US judge has ruled. Oracle sued Google last year, alleging the Web search leader's Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle's Java patents. In addition to those patent claims, Oracle also levelled copyright infringement claims against Google. Oracle acquired the Java programming...
01:12 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: Software major Oracle Corp on Thursday said it will hire 3,500 new personnel in India across all its businesses by May next year. "Oracle has announced an aggressive recruitment drive in India to hire 3,500 employees across all its businesses that support domestic and global customers," the company said in a statement. The company, which has the current workforce of 21,000 in the country, is looking to recruit...
03:30 PM, Oct 20, 2011
San Francisco: 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. Speaking on Sunday at the start of Oracle's annual technology and user conference in San Francisco, Ellison touted the benefits of parallel computing and showed off the latest version of the company's SPARC Solaris computer. He also unveiled Oracle's new Exalytics data analysis...
08:49 AM, Oct 03, 2011
New York: Oracle Corp on Thursday estimated it suffered roughly $1.16 billion of damages from Google Inc's alleged copyright and patent infringement of Java technology used in the Android operating system. In a court filing, Oracle said Google's claim that the damages sought exceeded $2.2 billion "mischaracterizes" a report by Oracle damages expert Iain Cockburn, a Boston University business professor. The lowered damages estimate is one-fifth the maximum $6.1 billion...
01:48 PM, Sep 23, 2011
San Francisco: Stronger spending on business software helped Oracle Corp.'s quarterly profit jump 36 per cent, but the company's server business further deteriorated, a decline Oracle attributed to its move to shed lower-margin deals. The company said after the stock market closed Tuesday that its net income rose to $1.84 billion, or 36 cents per share, in the quarter that ended August 31. That compared with $1.35 billion, or 27...
02:36 PM, Sep 21, 2011
San Francisco: A US judge will allow the bulk of Oracle Corp's copyright infringement claims against Google Inc over the Java programing language, according to a court ruling on Thursday. Oracle sued Google last year, claiming the Web search leader's Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle's Java patents. In addition to those patent claims, Oracle also levelled copyright infringement claims against Google. Oracle acquired the Java programing language through its...
02:33 PM, Sep 16, 2011
California: An SAP AG subsidiary pleaded guilty to 12 criminal counts and will pay a $20 million fine for unauthorised downloads from software rival Oracle Corp. As part of the agreement, SAP AG will not be charged with any criminal wrongdoing, SAP attorney Tharan "Greg" Lanier said on Wednesday. The criminal case is part of a long-running legal controversy involving SAP and Oracle. Last year, a civil jury awarded Oracle...
04:28 PM, Sep 15, 2011
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