Larry Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corp., will speak at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco on October 22, 2018. Bloomberg Oracle, a business software giant, is in talks to acquire social media company TikTok from US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand assets, according to a person familiar …
Read More »Pinterest adds Andrea Wishom to board, her third female board member
Pinterest named Andrea Wishom, president of Skywalker Holdings and former executive vice president at Harpo Productions, as the third woman on the company’s board. Erika Dufour thanks to Pinterest Pinterest on Monday appointed a third female director to the company’s board, days after a former female executor accused the company …
Read More »Rackspace shares experience on report that Amazon is in talks to invest in business
Rackspace Noah Berger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Rackspace jumped more than 15% Monday morning on a report that Amazon is in talks to invest in the cloud service business. Trading was stopped briefly due to volatility after the report was published in Reuters. A source familiar with …
Read More »Facebook executive in India raises complaints from police after report on content practices
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – In top Facebook (FB.O) executive in India has filed a police complaint in New Delhi saying she received death threats after a media report said she and the US social networking company apparently belonged to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party. FILE PHOTO: Small toy figures …
Read More »Australian consumer watchdog comments on Google letter about negotiation code for media
The logos of Facebook and Google apps displayed on a tablet. Denis Charlet | AFP via Getty Images The Australian Consumer Watchdog on Monday signed a letter from Google claiming that a proposed media law would harm local users, saying the letter contained “incorrect information”. In an open letter to …
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