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...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Mounting concerns about the trade war and uncertainty over the path of US interest rates weighed heavily on Wall Street last year....
...The Wall Street-Main Street divide remains as stark as ever. In fact, the new Republican tax plan is likely to exacerbate that divide, by making it even easier for big companies to move money around....
...The India International Exchange has been operating from GIFT since January 2017....
...McDonald’s prepares for fast-food street fight Fast food is staging its own race to the bottom....
...“All the broad themes of the Trump rally — deregulation; infrastructure; tax reform; domestic v international — seem almost tailor-made to trigger a cable rally,” wrote analysts at Moffett Nathanson....
...And because social media have become ubiquitous, the difference between the internet and social media has become blurred, according to Rimini Makama, who works for the Africa Practice consultancy in Nigeria...
...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
...After a period of unease about the impact the shift to cloud would have on Microsoft’s highly profitable software licensing business, Wall Street has cheered that approach....
...Investors include Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison, who pumped in $5m from his own wallet, Japanese retailer Hikari Tsushin Ltd, merchant bank Gefinor SA’s Gefinor USA subsidiary, and French VC firms Viventures...
...Sir Ben could have stayed with Oracle or joined another team....
...“We view this as a temporary phenomenon which is being driven by the simultaneous impact of lower international travel volumes in specific geographies, given regional unrest,” Mr Schneider said....
...Energy Future Holdings Corp., previously called TXU Corp., is lining up loans to keep two subsidiaries operating during bankruptcy proceedings after months of talks have failed to produce an agreement with...
...Revenues were up 9 per cent to $6.2bn, in line with Wall Street forecasts....
...Software maker Oracle Corp., for instance, disclosed more than 400 subsidiaries in its 2010 annual report. By 2012 the list had been whittled to eight—five of which were located in Ireland....
...Shares in Gannett , the international media and publishing company, were among the weakest on the day and lost 6.7 per cent to $18.51....
...But Wall Street subsequently lost ground as disappointing US corporate results from the likes of Oracle and weak purchasing managers’ data from the eurozone overshadowed positive news on the US and Chinese...
...After shooting to prominence in the tech boom of the 1990s, Sun failed to catch the next technology wave and succumbed to a takeover by Oracle....
...(Financial Times) - The Google v Oracle case could have big implications for the software industry....
...Oracle announced its fourth-quarter results three days ahead of schedule after the market closed....
...ConAgra was a rare bright spot, up 2.7 per cent to $25.26, after adjusted quarterly profit narrowly beat Wall Street estimates....
...Gains were led by Constellation Energy , which added 3 per cent to $37.23 and Edison International , which climbed 1.8 per cent to $43.69....
...On the pro forma basis on which Wall Street judges the company, Oracle reported net income of $2.8bn, or 54 cents a share, compared to the 57 cents analysts had expected....
...It has recently won funding from Atomico, the international venture capital firm formed by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype....
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