HP shares dropped more than 3% in premarket trading Friday, a day after the company named Leo Apotheker to replace Mark Hurd as CEO. And if investors aren’t impressed with the choice of the former CEO of software giant SAP to l…
In a somewhat surprising move, HP went outside its walls — and all the way to Germany — to find the chief executive to replace the ousted Mark Hurd. Apotheker had stepped down as CEO of German software giant SAP in 2010.
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Oracle has slapped Micron Technology, Samsung, Hynix, Infineon and other chip-makers with a price-fixing lawsuit, a follow-up to the $173 million antitrust settlement that those companies and others reached with state attorneys…
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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