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...On Wednesday, the start-up conjured the largest-ever IPO by a US software company, raising a larger-than-expected $3.4bn....
...Among the signatories were Oracle, the software maker; Boeing, the airline manufacturer; and Franklin Templeton, the fund manager....
...In another coincidence, my Lex colleague, Leslie Hook, wrote a piece on software LBOs in early October inspired by the Tibco deal....
...Deals such as Oracle’s $1.9bn acquisition of Taleo, the cloud software company, announced in February, and Cisco’s $5bn acquisition of video security company NDS, however, have helped keep tech sector deal...
...Mr Spence said that Intec had been linked with a bid from US business software groups Oracle and Convergys Corporation. “Intec is always on people’s screens and this will flag it up again,” he said....
...Oracle rose 2.6 per cent to $20.47 on reports the computer software group will enter the hardware market....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...Motorola has used a version in the Razr mobile phone; and IBM is a prominent supporter of Linux, as are Intel and Oracle....
...Pearl, Chairman and CEO, Perseus, LLC Richard Perry, Founder, Perry Capital Charles Phillips, President, Oracle Corporation Kim Polese, Co-Founder and Former CEO, Marimba Robert Pozen, Chairman, MFS...
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