The chief executive of business software maker Oracle Corp. exercised options for 1 million shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday.
Ireland's ESB Networks Deploys Oracle(R) Utilities to Efficiently Manage Power Distribution to New Housing Developments (PR Newswire)
Oracle today announced that ESB Networks, a subsidiary of ESB -- the leading electricity utility in Ireland -- is using OracleŽ Utilities Network Management System to efficiently manage operations for its medium-voltage distribution networks.
Electronic Data Systems Corp. said Monday it won a $715 million contract to manage the communications infrastructure for pharmaceutical maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Analyst sees Oracle's growth leading to higher margins (at MarketWatch)
With Oracle Corp. set to report its second-quarter results next week, an analyst with Cowen & Co. says the software giant is seeing strong growth and opportunities to expand its profit margins.
NetSuite bankers kick off bidding on $90 mIn IPO (at MarketWatch)
NetSuite, a business software maker owned by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, on Monday said it's kicking off its auction for is initial public offering. NetSuite announced that it expects the offering to price after the stock market closes on or about Wednesday.
An obscure class of lawsuits in which shareholders sue on behalf of their company used to get little respect. But that may change now that one of those lawsuits wrestled an eye-popping sum of more than $400 million from former UnitedHealth chairman and CEO William McGuire.
Spielberg is not leaving DreamWorks: spokesman (Reuters)
Reuters - Iconic Hollywood director Steven
Spielberg is not leaving DreamWorks, his spokesman said on
Tuesday, denying a report on the online edition of celebrity
magazine Radar.
Facebook, ID fraud, and the dark side of the Web (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In a year that has seen bullying in blogs, pedophiles on MySpace, and an ongoing privacy backlash against Facebook, it was appropriate that this year's Le Web 3 conference started Tuesday with a panel discussion about the "dark side" of Web 2.0.
Norton AntiVirus 11 Ships for Leopard (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Leopard has a new weapon in its antimalware arsenal with Symantec's release on Monday of Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac OS X 10.5. Symantec said the new product offers improved performance and better protection against Internet-connected applications.
AP - Warren Adelman's colleagues know him as "Thumbs": Like many executives, he is adept at checking e-mail on his BlackBerry and does it almost constantly.
Panelists: Many gov't Web sites hard to navigate (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Five years after the U.S. Congress passed legislation to improve electronic access to government information, 2,000 government Web sites contain public information that cannot be accessed through outside search engines, e-government experts said Tuesday.
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