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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944 in The Bronx, New York City, New York) is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software companies.
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(GOOG) didn't infringe Oracle Corp. (ORCL) patents that protect Oracle's Java technology, handing Google a victory as the companies' high-profile trial nears a close.Oracle had sued Google in August 2010, alleging that Google's Android mobile phone software infringes patents and copyrights that protect Java. Oracle had obtained Java just months earlier, when it purchased Java developer Sun Microsystems.The verdict marks the end of the second, patent phase of the trial. A third phase, to determine whatever damages Google may owe, will wait until proceedings resume Tuesday following the long holiday weekend. The jury was dismissed.The first part of the trial, which had covered Oracle's claims that Google infringed copyrights that protect Java, ended with a mixed verdict--it found that Google infringed on a relatively small portion of Java code protected by copyright, though Oracle has indicated it would pursue a significant amount of related...Jury selection in a high-stakes dispute over smartphone technology between Oracle Corp and Google Inc kicked off on Monday morning, starting a trial that could revea...
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Google Inc infringed some of Oracle Corp's copyrights on the Java programming language, a U.S. jury found on Monday after days of deliberation.Oracle may have suffer...
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The chief executives of Silicon Valley giants Google Inc. (GOOG) and Oracle Corp. (ORCL) testified Tuesday in a San Francisco courtroom, as the companies each told a...
International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) posted stronger-than-expected first-quarter earnings and raised its full-year guidance on Tuesday, but the blue-chip tech ...
Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison said the software maker had considered building its own smartphone to compete with Apple Inc and Google Inc, but decided it...
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