Oracle Corporation acquires Front Porch Digital

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) has announced that it acquired Front Porch Digital. Front Porch Digital is a digital asset management solutions company for TV and large-scale media companies. There are hundreds of media businesses that use Front Porch Digital, including A&E, BBC, Discovery Communications, and NASCAR. Government agencies like The Library of Congress and Voice of America also work with Front Porch Digital. Front Porch Digital is also used for medical imaging and real-time video security monitoring. The terms of the deal were undisclosed.

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Tesla Motors Inc: Supercharger is coming to Australia soon

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) will be opening a network of Superchargers in Australia soon. The first Supercharger in Australia will arrive in late 2014.

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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe has donated $31 million to University of Maryland

Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus, has donated $31 million to the University of Maryland. Iribe attended school at Maryland between 1996 and 1997. The donation is the largest in history for the University of Maryland. It will be used to build a new computer science building for a dedicated virtual reality lab.

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Twitter Inc has raised $1.8 billion in convertible note offering

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) CEO Dick Costolo raised $1.8 billion in a convertible bond offering earlier this week. This is up from the $1.3 billion amount that it planned on raising. The bond offering is based on five years with the notes due in 2019 and a 0.25% interest rate. The seven-year 2021 notes have a 1% interest, which are payable semi-annually in March and September. The conversation rate is around 12.8793 shares per $1,000 in principal. This amount is equal to around $77.64 per share. Twitter will be using $112.3 million to pay the cost of hedges intended to offset any dilution eventual conversion of the notes, according to Forbes.

Report: Apple Inc. spent over $100 million on free U2 album

Earlier this week, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced the iPhone 6. At the end of the iPhone 6 launch announcement, Apple CEO Tim Cook and U2 lead singer Bono said that the new album will be distributed for free of charge to the approximately 500 million people that have iTunes.

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Square reportedly raises $100 million with $6 billion valuation

Mobile payments company Square has reportedly raised $100 million in a new round of funding with a valuation of about $6 billion, according to financial filings.

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SanDisk announces a 512GB SD card

SanDisk has announced the largest-capacity SD card ever. The SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card was revealed at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam.

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