Oracle Corporation News

Oracle's $1.9 billion bid for Taleo follows SAP's $3.4 billion play for SuccessFactors and Salesforce.com's acquisition of Rypple in the burgeoning sector for cloud-based human capital management software.

Oracle Health Sciences today announced Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index Version 2.0, an open, standards-based solution to provide a single point of reference for information about a patient, provider, or other healthcare entity within and across healthcare organizations.

This comes on the heels of NetBase's partnership with SAP to deliver social intelligence throughout global enterprises.

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As reported in a recent article by popular financial newsletter Profit Confidential, Oracle Corporation disappointed investors with its earnings results, but Intel Corporation slightly beat the Street's estimates.

Among the conferences I hope to attend some day is Jfokus , held annually in Stockholm, Sweden.

A live version of "Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show!" was taking place on eBay's San Jose campus Saturday afternoon, and the show's super-awesome star was attempting to explain 3D printing to a fifty-something nitwit, while talking at approximately the speed of sound.

Since the acquisition of Novell by Attachmate, many Novell Identity Management customers have inquired about the Oracle offerings as an alternative.

In Silicon Valley, the club of $1 CEOs is small, but it includes many household names: Hewlett-Packard's Meg Whitman, Oracle's Larry Ellison, and the Google guys, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, writes Eli Segall on Silicon Valley BizBlog.

In an 8,600-word epistle, Microsoft's top Windows executive pulled aside the curtain on the first version of the company's iconic OS that targets tablets.

Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced.

Momentum is building for the Graal project, an implementation of a dynamic compiler in Java to produce excellent code quality without compromising compile time and memory usage in the Java Virtual Machine.

Yesterday, Oracle Inc. agreed to buy Taleo Corp. , a SaaS human resource software provider, for $1.9 billion or $46 per share.

Thursday announced plans to acquire HR specialist Taleo for $1.9 billion only weeks after Germany's SAP said it will do take over SuccessFactors, which it intends to buy for $3.4 billion.

Wallace Weitz is portfolio manager of the Weitz Value Fund, Weitz Hickory Fund and Weitz Partners Value Fund, which he founded in 1983.

The Redwood City tech giant is paying $46 a share for the Dublin company, 18.1 percent higher than Taleo's closing stock price Wednesday of $38.94. The Mercury News reports that the move comes on the heels of the closing of its purchase of another SaaS company, RightNow Technologies, for $1.5 billion.

Oracle : Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation or $46 per share, approximately $1.9 billion, net of Taleo's cash and debt.

Before we start talking about the Facebook Windfall and all the nice new tax dollars the company will pour into the state treasury, let me take a moment to put this in perspective.

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