Dell Is on the Acquisition Prowl Again, Now Looking at Quest Software

Another deal to distance itself from consumer PCs.
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Vaunted Yahoo Techie Departs for Microsoft (Surprised? Me Neither.)

Raghu Ramakrishnan has left the purple building.
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Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie’s Whiskey Media

Can’t we all just get along? Yes! Hollywood grabs a piece of Silicon Valley content tech.
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Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing)

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive legal attack against the powerful social networking giant for intellectual property violations.
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So It’s the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

In poking Facebook, Yahoo might now learn what it is really like to be de-friended.
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WolframAlpha’s Stephen Wolfram Talks About New Paid Knowledge Engine (Video)

The techie’s techie is now offering a pro version, so you can be even geekier than ever.
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Oracle Falls Short on Weak Software Sales

Oracle’s results fell well short, perhaps suggesting that IT spending among large corporations isn’t holding up as well as many had expected.
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On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts

Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
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Oracle Launches Exalytics Machine, Probably Ending Spat With Autonomy

Could it be that Larry Ellison picked a fight with Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch just to help launch some new Oracle hardware?
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Hurd at Last: Oracle’s Co-President Talks to AllThingsD

It’s been a year and 20 days since Oracle announced it would hire former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd. Today he gave his first interview since then to AllThingsD.
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Facebook Sets Mobile Sights on HTML5