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It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
Silicon Valley Watcher:
Indian entrepreneurs are everywhere in Silicon Valley. And a new report on the Bay Area Indian community measures the ties between Silicon Valley and India.Here are some facts from the report, “Global Reach,” by the Bay Area (Read More)
FT.com - Brussels, Competition:
The European Commission extends the deadline for approval of Oracle's proposed $7.4bn merger with rival Sun Microsystems. (Read More)
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online:
European Union regulators today extended the deadline for their review of the pending $7 billion acquisition by Oracle (ORCL) of Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Reuters reports.Oracle requested the extension in order to complete its (Read More)
New York Times:
European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems. (Read More)
Financial Times:
The European Commission, the EU’s main competition watchdog, has extended the deadline for approval of Oracle’s proposed $7.4bn merger with rival Sun Microsystems. (Read More)
Reuters: Deals:
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union regulators on Friday extended the deadline for their review of plans by U.S. software company Oracle to buy computer maker Sun Microsystems for $7 billion.
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Reuters: Mergers News:
BRUSSELS, Nov 17 (Reuters) - EU antitrust authoritiescontinue to examine Oracle's plan to buy SunMicrosystems over which there are competition concerns,a senior European Commission official said on Tuesday.Oracle, the world (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
GigaOM:
AT&T today unveiled its Synaptic Compute as a Service product that will use hardware from Sun Microsystems and software from VMware to provide businesses with computing on demand backed by a guarantee of 99.9 percent availab (Read More)
CNN:
CNN Newsdesk, iReport Division:I am an IT professional having worked for Sun Microsystems for 9 years, Accenture,and EDS.Sun Microsystems had a reduction in force on 8-15-2008 and I lost my job. I found another job in Septemb (Read More)
The Economist: Full print edition:
Regulators may block a big technology tie-up, but their case is not convincingFOR a brief period many hoped that trustbusters in Europe and America would start playing in tune. During the eight years of the Bush administratio (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
German software giant SAP publicly confirms its "concerns" about archrival Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems and addresses speculation that the company's CEO indirectly offered to facilitate winning clearance f (Read More)
New York Times:
A video highlight reel has been released on the autonomous Audi TTS being developed by a team from Stanford University, Volkswagen and Sun Microsystems.
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HarvardBusiness.org:
Think about your organization and ask yourself these two questions: Are external social media sites restricted or blocked while at work? Is the use of social media in the workplace inhibited or frowned upon?If you answered ye (Read More)
Reuters:
BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp has allowed regulatory approval of its $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc to drag on for months due to controversy over a database that most users get for free.
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