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Oracle reportedly hired private detectives to locate new HP CEO Leo Apotheker. Apotheker's former company, SAP, had recently admitted to stealing software from Oracle via its retired TomorrowNow subsidiary. (ITWorld)
Amazon is extending the 70% retail royalty MORE
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Paul Rademacher, maker of "the first true Web 2.0 application," is leaving Google. Rademacher, an engineering manager for Google Maps, made his name with HousingMaps.com, which mashed up Google Maps with Craigslist data. (TechWhack)
Oracle MORE
The latest act between the feuding companies is just as baffling as the preceding ones. What exactly does Larry Ellison have up his sleeve?
"Larry Ellison does everything he does for a reason."
That's what someone who knows Ellison but didn't know his intentions said to me the day the Oracle CEO wrote an inflammatory email to the New York Times, mocking the board of Hewlett-Packard for ousting Mark Hurd as CEO. MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Oct 27, 2010 2:49 PM ET
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"Street View, we drive exactly once. So, you can just move, right?" -- Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when asked about Street View (Fortune Tech)
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says he has proof that new HP CEO Leo Apotheker MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 27, 2010 8:26 AM ET
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Ex-IBM exec Robert Moffat was sentenced to six months in jail, (See: After the sentencing: What's ahead for Robert Moffat) two years of supervision, and ordered to MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 14, 2010 7:57 AM ET
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"If you bring something innovative to market, people will respond. I think it's going to do very well." -- AT&T CEO of Mobile Ralph de la MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 12, 2010 6:30 AM ET
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In Bloomberg Businessweek's profile of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, the publication declares, "Thank heavens." Despite smack-talking HP's board for letting Mark Hurd go and questioning the choice MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 8, 2010 7:45 AM ET
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
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"AMD is not for sale, but we are happy to listen to any proposal which is in the interest to our shareholders." -- Dirk Meyer on Oracle's MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 7, 2010 8:21 AM ET
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Dozens of online stores -- including Toys 'R' Us, Barnes & Noble (BKS), and Radio Shack (RSH) -- have teamed up to launch a counter-offensive to Yahoo's MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 6, 2010 6:45 AM ET
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
The New York Times gives us a rare behind-the-scenes look at Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, essentially portrayed as the necessary "yin" to Mark Zuckerberg's "yang," and shedding light MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 4, 2010 6:30 AM ET