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In a landmark IT court case that began on April 16, a federal judge ruled May 31 that Java application programming interfaces used by Google in building the Android mobile device operating system are not protected by copyright.

Larry Ellison has bought a lot of companies in his 35 years as Oracle's chief executive, but he says that none has turned out better than his 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

San Francisco-based Diffbot , a developer of visual-based content extraction technology, has raised $2 million in new capital.

Today's convergence of privacy-invading technologies and Washington 's appetite for surveillance could send civil liberties packing if we're not careful.

Care Zone Inc., a startup co-founded by ex-Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz to help people care for family members or others with conditions like autism, dementia or Parkinsons, has raised $13 million in a Series A round of venture financing.

Google was vindicated over claims of patent infringment today, but let's take a closer look at some of the winners and losers in this case so far.

Broomfield will offer Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth nearly $480,000 in exchange for bringing 400 jobs to the local Oracle campus.

In 1999, Scott McNealy, the former head of Sun MicroSystems, reportedly declared, "You have zero privacy anyway.Get over it." He unintentionally let the proverbial cat out of the bag of the digital age.

Facebook suffered a crushing embarrassment Monday morning as the company's stock fell far below the IPO price of $38. While it's hardly the first company to see huge share losses, it is easily one of the biggest and most watched.

The ubiquity of digital gadgets and sensors, the pervasiveness of networks and the benefits of sharing very personal information through social media have led some to argue that privacy as a social norm is changing and becoming an outmoded concept.

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So rarely do two events occur in such close proximity that perfectly capture the agony and the ecstasy of Silicon Valley.

As trading opened Friday morning at the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York, a curious scene was taking place thousands of miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley.

So what does Intel CEO Paul Otellini really think about Itanium, his company's failed attempt to build a brand-new standard microprocessor for corporate data centers? We may get a taste of that next month, as Otellini is now set to testify in Hewlett-Packard and Oracle's long-running dispute over the chip, according to a preliminary witness list ... (more)

ICScape, after enabling over 100 successful customer tapeouts, is now ready to market its solutions worldwide.

In a fireside chat, Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers, and Jason Pontin, chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum and editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review discuss the difficulties of building sustainable economic models for clean energy.

Google is seeking a new trial on copyright claims in Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against it over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing made late Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

A jury today found Google liable for copyright infringement in its use of Java in Android, but it has not managed to decide whether that infringement was protected by rules governing "fair use." The verdict, delivered after a week of deliberations by the jury, is a partial victory for Oracle in its lawsuit against Google, but Oracle will have to ... (more)

Open-source Java: Part One Open source Java has a long and torrid history, rife with corporate rivalry, very public fallings-out, and ideological misgivings.

The move comes as jurors deliberate over whether Google violated Java copyrights, as part of the trial's first phase Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using some testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectual-property suit over the Android mobile OS, saying it has "no legal and factual ... (more)