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The Sexual Harassment Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired

Amit Chowdhry | December 30, 2011 | 535 views | Add a Comment
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This past August former HP CEO Mark Hurd stepped down from the company after he was caught sending a sexual harassment letter. Hurd had a personal relationship with contractor Jodie Fisher, who had worked at HP as a greeter and hostess at company events. Hurd currently works at Oracle Corporation as a co-president and Meg Whitman has replaced him at Hewlett Packard. AllThingsD got their hands on the letter that attorney Gloria Allred wrote to Hurd on behalf of Jodie Fisher. I have embedded the letter below.

Oracle’s Patent Claims Gets Rejected By USPTO

Amit Chowdhry | December 27, 2011 | 358 views | Add a Comment
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has rejected Oracle’s patent claims against Google. On December 20th, the U.S. Patent office issued a rejection in the reexamination of Oracle’s U.S. Patent number 6,192,476. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had rejected 17 out of the 21 claims about the patent in discussion including 7 of the patent’s independent claims. Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google in 2010 over patents and copyright infringement within Java over the Android operating system.

Oracle Acquires RightNow For $1.5 Billion

Amit Chowdhry | October 24, 2011 | 496 views | Add a Comment
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Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) has announced the acquisition of RightNow for $43 per share (about $1.5 billion). Oracle will be integrating RightNow’s cloud-based customer service offering to their own Public Cloud solutions. The acquisition price is a 20% premium on its closing price on Friday, October 21.

Oracle Seeking $1.16 Billion From Google, Court Case Starting October 31st

Amit Chowdhry | September 23, 2011 | 649 views | Add a Comment
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Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) believes that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) owes them $1.16 billion in damages for copyright and patent infringement of Java software used in the Android operating system.

The Mobile Patent War’s Suits [INFOGRAPHIC]

Riley Kennysmith | August 17, 2011 | 1,077 views | Add a Comment
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This graphic from Thomson Reuters shows just who is suing whom in our current patent wars.

Internal Google Document Points Out Company’s Investigation Into Java Alternative

Amit Chowdhry | August 7, 2011 | 714 views | Add a Comment
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There are a couple of internal documents circulating around the Internet that was not intended to be leaked. The document is known as the “Lindholm Draft” and it features a Google engineer discussing how the Google founders wanted the company to seek technical alternatives to Java for the Android mobile operating system and the Chrome browser. Another document that leaked is by Android founder Andy Rubin.

Oracle Acquires Call Center Software Company InQuira

Amit Chowdhry | July 31, 2011 | 591 views | Add a Comment
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Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) has acquired call center software company InQuira. Call centers use InQuira software to help their call center agents provide customer service. InQuira customers include 3M, Sprint Nextel, Yahoo!, and Bayer. This is Oracle’s way of effectively competing against Salesforce.com in the call center space. [Reuters]

Google Using Former Sun CEO’s Blog Post As Defense Against Oracle

Amit Chowdhry | July 30, 2011 | 529 views | Add a Comment
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Earler this year Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) filed a lawsuit against Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). Oracle holds the patents to Java after they acquired Sun Microsystems. However former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote a blog post in 2007 praising Google for integrating Java into Android. Oracle deleted the blog post, but Google retrieved it using Amazon.com’s Internet Archive and Wayback Machine. Google is using the deleted blog post as an estoppel. [Groklaw]

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