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Sun Boosts Oracle Profits

mcnealy-ellisonthumbOracle’s fourth quarter was a strong one, thanks to increasing software sales and new revenue from the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Posting financials after the bell Thursday, Oracle (ORCL) reported earnings of 60 cents per share and $9.6 billion in revenue, beating the consensus estimate, which called for 54 cents per share and $9.5 billion in revenue. Sun contributed more than $400 million in operating profit during the quarter, and, according to President Safra Catz, should “meet or exceed” the company’s goals for fiscal 2011 and 2012. Said Catz, “This compares with a loss in Sun’s quarter ending June of last year, when Sun was an independent company. Now that Sun is profitable, we have increased confidence that we will meet or exceed our goal of Sun contributing $1.5 billion to non-GAAP operating income in FY2011, and $2.0 billion in FY2012.”

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik