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Larry Ellison demonstrated Oracle's new chat bot with a joke about his salary
He's clearly joking. Larry Ellison's pay was slashed from $79.6 million, mostly in stock options in…
The meltdown at one of Silicon Valley's hottest young VCs could lead to more investigations, source says
Rothenberg Ventures has been the talk of the Valley for the past two weeks, as one bit of bad news …
Next week, Oracle will start a price war with Amazon over cloud computing
"Next week at Oracle OpenWorld, we will introduce the second generation of our Infrastructure as a …
Oracle whiffs on Q1 earnings
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corporation (ORCL) (NYSE: ORCL) today…
Mirantis, a startup driving VMware and Red Hat crazy, just bought a 30-person startup for $30 million
Mirantis has raised $220 million total between equity investments and a big joint project with Inte…
A surprising number of computer hackers earn over $100,000 a year
Ransomware is where a hacker finds a hole in your computer's security and uses it to install softwa…
Google's Diane Greene has a secret weapon against Amazon Web Service to win cloud customers
Then there's prices. Google has priced its cloud services low. Word on the street is that Google is…
Mike Pence is going to do 'some very bad things to people that we love,' warns Salesforce CEO
Benioff and Pence had a big showdown last year when Indiana passed a controversial law that some cl…
Troubled startup Zenefits has settled with five more states for allegedly selling insurance without proper licensing
With his promotion to CEO, Sacks cleaned house among top leadership, implemented compliance control…
A fictional sexist app on HBO's show 'Silicon Valley' turned out to be a real thing
Judge was inspired by an undercover visit to Disrupt in 2013. That was the year that featured on st…
The geeky reasons why September 12 is International Programmer's Day
Another way to celebrate is to show off that you understand it. Today is Programmer's Day because S…
Microsoft has grabbed a huge customer from Salesforce: HP
It's not surprising that HP would cozy up to Microsoft in this way. HP is the PC/printer company th…
'Silicon Valley is full of crazy people' says programmer who just sold his company to join Stripe
He's a guy that's made a name for himself living the dream of working for himself as a programmer, …
How Israel's startup community shut down an IPO that one investor called a 'sham'
"In the last few weeks our company, employees and shareholders were subject to brutal attacks by ce…
Cisco is being blamed for putting 'Game of War' hosting provider into bankruptcy
Machine Zone, as you might expect, didn't buy that defense, and insisted that all sorts of other th…
Dell will reportedly cut up to 3,000 jobs now that its mega-merger with EMC is done
Now that EMC is part of Dell, Dell hopes to find cost savings of about $1.7 billion in the first 18…
Meg Whitman slams Dell: They have $60-$70 billion of debt, we have $5.5 billion
"I believe we are going to win because what's happening now is technology is moving at lightning sp…
Aaron Levie's famous sense of humor has rubbed off on Microsoft's Peggy Johnson
He's not only one of the funniest guys in tech, he also grew up in the Seattle area under Micr…
As expected, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise sold its software business in an $8.8 billion deal
The combination of these software assets -- which includes HPE's Application Delivery Management, B…
People are already complaining about Apple's new AirPod earbuds
Apple seems to realize that because it also introduced a line of Beats wireless headphones that use…
It's a shame Apple is playing 'me-too' with iWork when everyone else is pushing the envelope
Apple has never really been known as a leader in business apps. Yet Apple wants to make its tablets…
Here's how Apple plans to turn your kids into Apple fans
Perhaps even more importantly, he says that 100 schools will teach their kids Apple's popular new p…
Secretive startup Palantir is suing an investor alleging he was trying to steal its business ideas
The company alleges that three of Abramowitz's patent applications, filed in 2015, were ideas …
How the CIO of a $39 billion pharmaceutical company is quietly changing the tech-startup world
Whatever you call it, it requires a radical new way for an IT department to operate. As Google's cl…
If you want the best seat at Arthur Ashe Stadium, you've got to be an engineer
And it already served its purpose on Thursday when rain hit during a match. Although the players co…