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14 hrs ago | CNet News

Google Prevails Over Oracle in Java API, Android Copyright Case

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.

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Related Topix: Programming Languages, Java, Science / Technology, Google, Startups, Sun Microsystems, Computers

19 hrs ago | Wired

Larry Ellison: Sun Buy Paid For Itself, Now We Crush IBM

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.

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Related Topix: Startups, Oracle Corporation, Lawrence Ellison

Yesterday | PE Hub

Diffbot Raises $2M

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

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Related Topix: Startups, YouSendIt, Robots, Science / Technology, Yahoo!, Social Software

Wed May 30, 2012

Forbes.com

Is Privacy Dead? Yes, If America's Surveillance State Drones On

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

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Related Topix: Startups, Sun Microsystems, Computers, Bob McDonnell, US Governors, Business News

Tue May 29, 2012

Business Journal

Ex-Sun CEO's startup gets $13 million

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.

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Related Topix: Sun Microsystems, Startups, Computers

Thu May 24, 2012

ZDNet Blogs

Oracle v. Google: Winners and losers

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.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Oracle Corporation, Programming Languages, Java, Science / Technology, Sun Microsystems, Computers

Wed May 23, 2012

Broomfield Enterprise

Broomfield giving nearly $480K of incentives to hospital company

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

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Related Topix: Broomfield, CO, Lafayette, CO, Startups, Wheat Ridge, CO

Mon May 21, 2012

Salon

Google's darkening agenda

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.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Sun Microsystems, Computers, Privacy, Internet, Science / Technology

KNTV-TV

Facebook Shares Fall 13 Percent

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.

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Related Topix: Startups, Sun Microsystems, Computers

Switched

Don Tapscott: Living Out Loud -- Should We All Be More 'Open?': The Upside of Sharing

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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Related Topix: Privacy, Startups, Sun Microsystems, Computers, Facebook, Social Software

Sun May 20, 2012

GrokLaw

A Sun Position Paper on Software Patents, 2006 ~pj

ArchiveExplorer Autozone Bilski Cases Cast: Lawyers Comes v. MS Contracts, etc. Courts DRM Gordon v MS GPL Grokdoc HTML How To IPI v RH IV v. Google Legal Docs Lodsys MS Litigations MSvB&N News Picks Novell v. MS Novell-MS Deal ODF/OOXML OOXML Appeals OraclevGoogle Patents ProjectMonterey Psystar Quote Database Red Hat v SCO Salus Book SCEA v Hotz ... (more)

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Related Topix: Digital Rights Management, Science / Technology, Google, Startups, Open Source Software, Linux, Sun Microsystems, Computers, Inventions

Sat May 19, 2012

SiliconValley.com

O'Brien: A week of highs and lows

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

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Hewlett Packard, HP, Hewlett-Packard, Computers

Fri May 18, 2012

Hispanic Business

Facebook's Bumpy Debut Sparks IPO Drama

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.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Banking, Financial Services, Silicon Valley Bancshares, Sun Microsystems, Computers, Mark Zuckerberg

Tue May 15, 2012

Wired

Intel Boss to Testify in Battle Royale Between HP and Oracle

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)

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Related Topix: Hewlett Packard, Startups, Oracle Corporation, Intel, HP, Computers

Mon May 14, 2012

I-Newswire.com

ICScape Grows Globally - Design Closure Startup with Over 100 Tapeouts Gets $28M in Funding

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

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Related Topix: Santa Clara, CA, Startups, CPU, Science / Technology, World News, China, Asia, UC San Diego, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Fri May 11, 2012

KurzweilAI.net

The Future of Clean Energy: The Economic Imperative

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.

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Related Topix: Startups, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Financial Services, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Investment Services, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology

Wed May 09, 2012

InfoWorld

Google files for new trial on copyright claims in Android suit

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.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Programming Languages, Java, Science / Technology

Mon May 07, 2012

InfoWorld

Oracle gets partial win in Android lawsuit against Google

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)

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Oracle Corporation, Programming Languages, Java, Science / Technology

Sat May 05, 2012

Free Republic

Five years of open-source Java: Freedom isn't (quite) free

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.

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Related Topix: Programming Languages, Java, Science / Technology, Startups, Sun Microsystems, Computers, Microsoft, Sentillion

Fri May 04, 2012

ComputerWorld

Oracle wants judge to bar ex-Sun CEO Schwartz's testimony in Google suit

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)

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Programming Languages, Java, Science / Technology, Sun Microsystems, Computers

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