Oracle Acquires Taleo for $1.9 Billion

In the wake of last year’s SAP-SuccessFactors deal, Taleo was said to be the next company to be acquired. Funny how these things work out.
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An iPhoto Slide Show on CD

Walt answers a reader’s question on how to burn an iPhoto slide show onto a CD.

Newly Public Jive Beats the Street

Jive’s first quarter as a public company comes out pretty good.
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BMO: Salesforce’s Quarter Should Be Better Than the Last One

Salesforce.com may make up for the miss on billings that caused shareholders to sell off its stock last quarter.
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Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper’s Business

Watch out Cisco, Juniper and other networking vendors. Your business model is about to get disrupted by Nicira, which is coming out of stealth mode today.
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Another Sunny Day for Cloud Company NetSuite

Cloud software player Netsuite’s earnings beat the Street, and its shares are surging.
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Fast-Growing Cloud Management Start-Up Okta Hires Two New VPs

Customers are up threefold and end users are up by a factor of six. Time to put some more talent on the executive team? Yes.
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Amazon and Apple: Two Tablet Makers, Two Drastically Different Fourth Quarters

Amazon is expected to report a giant fourth quarter tomorrow, but the results couldn’t be more different from Apple’s monstrous fourth-quarter results reported last week.
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Fusion-io Shares Whacked, but the Flash Madness Club Has a New Member

Fusion-io investors freak out over tighter margins. But never mind that. Fusion has a new customer: Salesforce.com
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Seven Questions for Bill Veghte, Hewlett-Packard’s New Chief Strategy Officer

Meet the 20-year Microsoft veteran who’s now in charge of steering HP’s strategic vision.
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