In this week’s HipMojo show, CT and I talked about YouTube’s partnership with comScore. I wrote about this earlier in the week and we explored the matter in greater detail on Part 1, below: continue reading...
Nowadays, it’s in vogue to say that you’re an “angel investor”, but judging from Larry Ellison’s tentacles, you get a sense that if there were a godfather of investing amongst the uber-elite, Ellison would win hands down (well, maybe apart from Ron Conway, of course). continue reading...
Not surprisingly, HP is suing to block Mark Hurd from joining Oracle. Here’s the full complaint. This one is tricky: if Hurd was fired, then he can logically do what he pleases, unless of course he was compensated in order not to take on a job at a competitor. It’s not whether you or I think HP and Oracle are competitive, it is what his non-competition agreement says. continue reading...
Oracle pays $8.5B to acquire BEA Systems. It’s not Oracle’s biggest deal, in 2005, Larry Ellison shelled out a whopping $10.3B to acquire Peoplesoft.
To see where this deal sits in terms of other M&A in the same range (not adjusted for inflation), see our snapshot of M&A deals: continue reading...
