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[credit provider=”City of Menlo Park” url=”http://www.menlopark.org/”] Facebook has announced a surprise media event on January 15 that has everyone guessing.The invitation said simply: “See what we’re building.”
[credit provider=”Business Insider”] Unconfirmed reports of layoffs at Oracle have been leaking all year long. In an earnings call Tuesday, analysts asked Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and President Mark Hurd directly about headcount.
[credit provider=”Julie Bort/Business Insider”] We previously reported about layoffs at Oracle within its hardware groups.We’ve now heard from multiple sources that more layoffs occurred last week at the Communications unit, which made gear for telecom customers.
[credit provider=”City of Menlo Park” url=”http://menlopark.org/”] Now we’ve got an even better idea of what Facebook’s new 2,800-person campus will look like.On Monday, Facebook real-estate director John Tenanes emailed plans to city officials in Menlo Park, Calif. We downloaded a copy.
[credit provider=”Facebook”] Frank Gehry, the famous architect, is building a new office for Facebook that will one day house 2,800 engineers, the company announced.Facebook moved into the former campus of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, Calif. last December. It’s made some cosmetic changes to the campus—like a gigantic “HACK” sign […]
[credit provider=”Asa Mathat | All Things Digital”] Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems sent the company’s sales organisation into a tailspin.Over the past year, “droves” of Oracle salespeople have fled the company.
[credit provider=”Business Insider”] Before Oracle spent $7.4 billion to buy Sun Microsystems in 2009, Oracle first asked HP to help it buy and divide Sun, reports PC World.That’s what HP’s Ann Livermore said in her testimony in the HP v. Oracle trial. She remembers that Oracle approached HP and asked it […]
[credit provider=”AP”] Larry Ellison wants you to know that his acquisition of Sun Microsystems isn’t a bomb and the hardware isn’t a dog, but a hugely profitable business that already paid for itself.Ellison looks at his hardware business and sees Apple.
When push comes to shove, Oracle isn’t going to collect $1 billion, much less $6 billion from Google’s use of Java in Android, concludes IT law blog Groklaw.
[credit provider=”AP”] The jury in the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit seems to be deadlocked.They’ve been deliberating since Thursday. If they can’t decide on a winner than the trail will move onto Phase II.
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[credit provider=”Peter Campbell, Wikimedia Commons” url=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Gosling_2008.jpg”] Java creator James Gosling thinks that Google “totally slimed” Sun by using big parts of Java without paying a licence, and says that he agrees with Oracle in the lawsuit between the companies.That may be a bit surprising, because Gosling quit his job at […]
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[credit provider=”AP”] Google’s Android chief Andy Rubin appears to have conceded a key point in the Oracle-Google lawsuit today.Under oath, he seemed to admit that he once thought Google needed a licence from Sun to use Java technology in Android, and that the Java APIs are copyrighted, as reported by […]
