Larry Ellison

This weekend in Barron's online: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is overdue for a makeover, and the prospects for eBay, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Oracle. Cover Story "Shake Up the Dow!" by Andrew Bary. Barron's cover story this week suggests that the Dow Jones Industrial Average risks...

This weekend in Barron's online: the annual listing of the top 30 corporate chiefs, a look at Deere, International Game Technology and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, as well as growth in Latin American airlines. Cover Story “World's Best CEOs” by Andrew Bary. Barron's offers up its annual listing of...

The Bangles were famous for their "Manic Monday" song, and it looks as if we can take that and apply it to this morning, as "Merger Monday" appears to be in full effect again. After a period of quiet in capital markets activity, there were a few mergers this morning, which could be a sign that...

Yom Kippur, the holiest and most solemn day of the year for Jews, is coming up this weekend. In honor of the holiday, Benzinga decided to profile some of the leading Jewish business leaders and their companies. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is one of the most innovative and admired companies in the world....

“We think that the fundamentals of Salesforce.com is only going to deteriorate moving forward,” says Global Equities Research. Outspoken analyst Trip Chowdhry sent out an e-mail this morning regarding Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) following a recent keynote at Oracle World with Larry Ellison. “Key...

The Giving Pledge co-founder is once again making headlines for being the richest man in the world. Bill Gates, the man behind that little company that makes Windows – what was its name again? Oh, right, it's Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) – has earned the number-one spot in the Forbes 400. Gates' net...

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is set to report earnings tonight, and Larry Ellison's company is expected to report strong growth from last year. What will be even more important for the markets to see is whether Oracle's earnings and guidance provides any clues about a potential slowdown in hardware and...

More than 50 investors, entrepreneurs and corporate execs have signed the Giving Pledge. Steve Jobs isn't one of them. If you assumed that all billionaires were the same, you might be surprised to hear this. After all, the pledge was started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Mark Zuckerberg, Steve...

Get your head in the clouds, and it could be very profitable. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced this morning that it would be launching a web-based version of its Kindle, the Kindle Cloud Reader. If you use Chrome or Safari on Mac, PC, Linux and Chromebook, you can access your Kindle e-book...

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) shares have extended their losses from the open of trading after the software giant reported earnings last night after the bell. The company reported earnings that beat Wall Street estimates and guidance was better than expected, but hardware sales were softer...