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...Microsoft, which has had more legal targets painted on its back than anyone, is the highest-valued corporation in the world....
...Smart reads Bankruptcy in Texas Houston has been a favoured city for cash-strapped companies and corporations with large legal liabilities to find shelter from creditors....
...The so-called Oracle of Omaha said some of the issues in the banking system could be seen by anyone willing to dive through the annual reports of the banks that have already failed, pointing to the jumbo-mortgages...
...Major corporations such as Microsoft and Verizon have lent their support to campaigns in various US states for legislative reforms to erase old convictions from individuals’ records....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...The share buybacks so far this year by Apple, Alphabet, Cisco, Microsoft and Oracle, after the tax change came into force at the end of 2017, are nearly double what the companies spent in the whole of last...
...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....
...“Will Oracle and Microsoft continue their relationships with Red Hat if IBM is behind them? Maybe not,” said Mr Dawson....
...The chairman of her board was Donald L Lucas, the venture capitalist who had groomed billionaire software entrepreneur Larry Ellison and helped him take Oracle Corporation public in the mid-1980s....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...The largest and most intellectual-property-rich 10 per cent of companies — Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Alphabet — control 80 per cent of this hoard....
...Among the old guard of the IT industry, only IBM and Oracle are still trying to become significant cloud players....
...John Chambers, one of the towering figures from the tech boom of the late-1990s, is to step down as chairman of networking equipment company Cisco Systems, the company said on Monday....
...Its planners are dreaming big: the new Amaravati will have an eco-friendly transport system that includes water taxis, electric vehicles and even a possible hyperloop, if the sealed-tube train system championed...
...As of end-2016, roughly $1tn of cash was held overseas by 50 US companies, with Apple, Microsoft, Google-owner Alphabet, Cisco and Oracle accounting for $512bn of the figure, according to rating agency Moody...
...The US taxes the global income of US corporations, but allows them to defer paying tax indefinitely on foreign profits that are reinvested abroad....
...“Oracle and Verizon have not changed anything [since Boston Common filed its resolutions]....
...Mobileye, founded in 1999, has pioneered computer vision systems that detect cars, pedestrians and objects on the road....
...Stephen Moore, a conservative economist who has advised Mr Trump on tax policy, says: “If we can get that down to 15, 16 or 17 per cent on corporations, whether we have a territorial system or not won’t...
...The main constraint is really that the system lacks legitimacy,” he says. Expedient politics Amid such debates the drive to defend the cause of free trade is creating unusual political alliances....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...Not just individual bloggers and other self-publishers, but also companies and corporations....
...But the licensing v SAAS debate misses what Oracle is doing: amassing a wide suite of applications, delivered any which way, across functions and industries....
...Digital payments systems will allow companies to instantly transfer wealth, without the risk of default....
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