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NEW YORK (AP) -- Oracle founder Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest people, drew a pay package worth about $70 million during the company's most recent fiscal year.
That's down 17 percent from $84.
Craigslist urged to drop adult services worldwide Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and national nonprofit organizations said Tuesday they want Craigslist to be "a model for good policy" and officially get rid of its adult services section globally.
Settles claim Cisco Systems and Westcon Group North America agreed to pay $48 million to settle claims that they overcharged the U.S. government, the Justice Department said.
Google CEO Says Web TV Service to Be Offered Worldwide in 2011 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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Google plans to make its version of Web television available worldwide in 2011, CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday in Berlin.
Silicon Valley tech stocks Tuesday joined in a broader market decline, with major indexes down 1 percent or more.
Among the valley's 10 largest stocks by market value, only Oracle was up. Shares of the Redwood City software maker surged $1.26, or 5.
Biz Break: HP vs. Oracle: Hewlett-Packard sues ex-CEO Mark Hurd Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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Today: HP sues former CEO Mark Hurd to block him from taking a job at rival Silicon Valley tech giant Oracle.
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HP sues ex-HP CEO Hurd over new job at Oracle Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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Hewlett-Packard filed a lawsuit against its former chief executive Mark Hurd this morning, seeking to block him from going to work for rival tech giant Oracle.
Gates Foundation acknowledges flaws in yearly report Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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SEATTLE -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has taken another baby step toward increased transparency, acknowledging in its annual report that the world's largest charitable foundation is too secretive and hard to work with.
Oracle hires former HP CEO Hurd Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd has been hired as a co-president of Oracle, in a move that should heat up the competition between the two companies.
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section.
The section had been replaced Saturday by a black-and-white "censored" logo.
Blackberry secure for company but not employee Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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OTTAWA -- In both form and function, a BlackBerry bought by a consumer for personal use and one handed to an employee by a corporation as a work tool appear to be pretty much the same thing.
Wikipedia founder bullish on news Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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CERNOBBIO, Italy -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry.
3Par Venture Backers Reap $560 Million by Hanging On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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Patience paid off for the venture capitalists who backed data-storage supplier 3Par.
Pruning legalese Google will delete privacy notices for 12 online products and cut down on legal language in its main privacy policy to simplify its contract with users.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales bullish on news industry Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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CERNOBBIO, Italy -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry.
The technological decade: What goes up comes down, and the Web rules them all Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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The decade began with all the promise of a tech-stock boom where you couldn't help but make hand-over-fist money. Alas, the dot-com bubble burst in March 2000 with the crash of the NASDAQ stock market.
What should we think about Gmail fail? Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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I don't know if we're ready yet to call it "Black Cyber Tuesday," but this week's two-hour outage of Google's Gmail service made that day more than a little bit frustrating for those who rely on it for their e-mail.
Finding the right antenna for DTV reception in Los Angeles Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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Now that the transition from analog to digital over-the-air television is complete, finding the right antenna should be easier than ever.
Before June 12, all of L.A.'s digital TV stations were on the UHF band.
Feed your computers some chips Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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Neither I nor my computers are getting any younger.
The buttoned-down Macintosh Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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Don't let those "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads fool you. At its core, Apple is a very conservative company.