On Friday, the Justice Department announced it had settled with six tech giants that had made anticompetitive agreements not to poach top employees from each other. That may have been an issue two years ago, but not now as a ma…
Oracle Corp. (ORCL) wants to buy semiconductor companies and the makers of industry-specific software, CEO Larry Ellison said.
Oracle has bought more than 65 companies in the last five years. Adding chipmakers would help the company develop its presence in the market for computer hardware.
“You’re going to see us buying chip companies,” Ellison said at a meeting in San Francisco,…
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Oracle Wants to Buy Semiconductor, Software Companies originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:48:00.
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Brocade Communications shares surged today on investor speculation that IBM may acquire the company, which makes switches for data-storage networks.
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Although Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was a skeptic only a year ago, he has been talking up cloud computing at the company’s annual conference this week.
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IBM, Oracle, Hewlett Packard and Intel have been on a buying spree of late, and it’s virtually guaranteed that they’ll be purchasing more companies over the next several months. But which companies will they target next? Here a…