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...You don’t have to be Thomas Piketty to recognise that inequality poses a significant risk to the global system as it stands....
...But even as the letter of intent was being finalised, Mr Zafirovski was being passed over and Ed Zander, from Sun Microsystems, was brought in to be Motorola’s chief executive....
...There was little fanfare when the private Chinese company NavTech bought Silex Microsystems in 2015, acquiring the Swedish company’s mastery of manufacturing accelerometers, gyroscopes and other microscopic...
...She was an engineer at Sun Microsystems for over a decade and is currently a professor in cyber security at Tufts University....
...HP’s deal, uniting a pair of computer hardware makers facing relentless pressure on profits margins, was likened at the time to “two garbage trucks colliding” by the head of rival Sun Microsystems....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...For as long as cars in the secondary market remain affordable to Joe Public on fully self-financed terms, the system can choke along....
...For his new company, Mr Bechtolsheim — who had been one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, one of the star hardware companies of the 1990s — was able to tap a new wave of independent chipmakers, effectively...
...This underlines an advantage for renewables: unlike coal, oil or gas, every country has wind and sun....
...Java was singled out by Larry Ellison, the company’s chairman, as the key asset in his 2010 purchase of server maker Sun Microsystems....
...Mr McNealy’s own company, Sun Microsystems, went to the great landfill in the sky long ago, courtesy of acquirer Oracle, which has dispatched any number of faded tech names....
...Those who succeeded, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, became linchpins in a support system for their fellow nationals, ranging from formal business groups to ad hoc networks for mentoring...
...As Scott McNealy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems said: “You have zero privacy . . . get over it.” The issue is over who owns my data and to whom the value accrues....
...The all-cash price is the most Oracle has paid in an acquisition since it spent $7.4bn on Sun Microsystems in 2010....
...In 1988, Ben Golub, one of the original founders of BlackRock, bought a Sun Microsystems workstation and stuck it between the refrigerator and coffee machine of the would-be asset manager’s brand new one-room...
...The latest figures were helped by a reduction in losses from hardware sales, which have been a drag on results since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems nearly four years ago....
...Older machines feature Sun Microsystems servers powered by Intel processors....
...Oracle, which took over control of Java with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, typically releases software fixes for such vulnerabilities in between a week and a month, making it essential for computer...
...Oracle took control of Java with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010 and problems with the software have been deeply ingrained for years, according to people familiar with the code....
...Hardware products sales fell 24 per cent from $1.03bn to $0.78bn as Oracle continued to struggle to absorb Sun Microsystems, acquired in 2010....
...The prospect has excited big names such as Vinod Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, his former chief technology officer, and Evan Williams, a co-founder...
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...acquired when Oracle bought Java, along with Sun Microsystems, in 2009....
...Oracle has alleged Google infringed its copyright in the Java programming language, which Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems two years ago....
...So it is ironic that Oracle, famous for its aggressive business tactics, should be the one defending the open – in this case, the Java programming language it acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems....
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