Oracle continues to make its way aggessively into telecom software, this time with the purchase of Tekelec, a provider of diameter signaling and policy control solutions. Tekelec has been privately held for just over a year; it was taken private in January 2012 by...
Oracle agreed to acquire Acme Packet, which makes network solutions to deliver voice, video, data and unified communications services and applications across IP networks. Under the agreement, Oracle will pay $29.25 per share in cash representing a fully diluted equity value of $2.1 billion....
Oracle is pushing its cloud computing strategies by investing in its software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions. The giant IT company has made several acquisitions to boost its portfolio over the last few...
2013 could be the year that enterprise apps come into their own. "Enterprise apps today are where consumer apps were three or four years ago," explained Rajeev Chand of Rutberg & Company, a boutique investment bank focused on wireless and digital media. "The consumer...
Oracle’s latest pair of moves show the company’s efforts to bolster its cloud portfolio. By making a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, a cloud development platform that supports Ruby, PHP and Node, Oracle is pushing its platform-as-a-service strategy. This investment followed the acquisition...
Oracle highlighted its cloud computing strategies, and goals at this year’s Oracle Open World in San Francisco. During the show, which has an estimated audience of 50,000 attendees from over 140 countries, Oracle introduced seven new cloud-based services, which augment Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of...
Most telecom operators are missing an opportunity to integrate their multiple customer relationship channels in order to provide a better customer experience, according to Oracle (ORCL). “There is no much information being shared between multiple relationship channels,” said Alceu Bravo, communications industry director for...
Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based social talent sourcing and corporate alumni management applications. This acquisition follows Oracle's previous asset purchase of Skire, a provider of capital program management and facilities management applications, which...
Less than a month after Oracle's purchase of the cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform Vitrue, the company announced on June 5 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the cloud-based social intelligence firm, Collective Intellect. It is the IT giant's second...
Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle's Java APIs are not protected by copyright law. APIs are the application program interfaces that help different pieces of code work together, and...
A new chapter in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit: A federal jury said Wednesday that Google (GOOG) did not infringe Oracle (ORCL) patents that protect Oracle's Java technology. The decision came after the jury found earlier in May that Google had infringed Oracle's copyrights...
Cloud computing is the new king of the information technology market, and three acquisitions announced this week underscore the point.
On Tuesday Germany's SAP AG unveiled its plans to buy cloud-based business commerce network Ariba Inc to expand its cloud presence, in a deal...
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, which develops cloud-based clinical trial operations applications. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2012. The two companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
ClearTrial, a private company founded in...
Google (GOOG) has approval from the United States Department of Justice and from the European Union to proceed with its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI). The Justice Department says its antitrust division has closed its investigation of the deal, having determined that...
Looking to extend its cloud computing platform, Oracle said it has entered into an agreement to acquire cloud-based talent management provider Taleo for $46 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, net of Taleo’s cash and debt.
Taleo’s talent management cloud is designed to help organizations...
Software giant Oracle recently released a report focused on the mobile space showing that increased consumer demand of mobile data services is a worldwide phenomenon fueled by the rise of smartphone adoption and more robust network offerings.
The survey, “Opportunity calling: The future of mobile...
Oracle wants to increase its offerings in the cloud RightNow. The software giant has agreed to pay $1.5 billion for RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ RNOW). That's $43 a share, almost 20% more than RightNow's closing price on Friday.
RightNow provides cloud-based customer service, supporting more than...
The Federal Communications Commission says it will require carriers to alert customers who are about to exceed limits on their data or calling plans, or incur large roaming charges. Along with Consumers Union and wireless association CTIA, the FCC today unveiled a new set...
Google Inc. (GOOG) is fighting back in a war of words over its patent position. There's a side effect of Android's success, David Drummond, the company's chief legal officer and SVP lamented in a blog post.
"Android and other platforms are competing hard against each...
Google Inc. is fighting back in a war of words over its patent position. There’s a side effect of Android’s success, David Drummond, the company’s chief legal officer and SVP lamented in a blog post.“Android and other platforms are competing hard against each other,...
IBM Corp. spent $1.2 million and software giant Oracle Corp. paid $1.1 million to lobbyists in the first quarter, attempting to influence interests from patent concerns, international trade and immigration law, to tax loopholes and government health care legislation.
Among other agencies,...
Amidst months of rumors, Facebook Inc. decided to hire former Oracle Corp. (ORCL) chief spokesman Joe Lockhart as VP of global communications.
Lockhart is also well known in political circles after serving as Bill Clinton’s former secretary and most recently worked as founding partner and...
Hakan Eriksson, Ericsson CTO and head of the firm’s Silicon Valley division told press at the company’s Business Innovation Forum that the valley was a perfect home away from home because “basically everybody is here.”
Railing off a long list of companies Ericsson has partnerships...
