Business & Tech Oracle Wins TikTok Sweepstakes, Rewarding Trump Donor Larry Ellison Microsoft and Twitter get left at the altar, as the Redwood City-based enterprise software giant with no real experience in social media wins the prized video app that Trump pressured into being sold.
Business & Tech Oracle Employees Circulate Petition Over Larry Ellison's Planned Golf Fundraiser for Trump Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is hosting a golf fundraiser for President Trump's reelection campaign on Wednesday, and some Oracle employees have started a petition denouncing the event.
Business & Tech San Francisco Loses Major Convention, Oracle's OpenWorld, to Las Vegas Following several years in which the convention bureau has been decrying the visible homelessness on downtown streets as a deterrent for organizers of lucrative professional conventions, the city is losing one of its longstanding mainstays, Oracle's OpenWorld.
SF News Labor Department Sues Oracle For Allegedly Paying White Men More Than Others A complaint filed by the Department of Labor claims that software giant Oracle, which employs 45,000 US workers, is engaged in a “systemic practice of paying Caucasian male workers more than their
SF News Oracle Senior Staffer Resigns In Protest After CEO Joins Trump Transition Team, Invites Others To Join Petition In a scathing email posted publicly on LinkedIn, Oracle senior staff member George Polisner announced his resignation in protest of co-CEO Safra Catz's decision to join the Trump transition team after meeting with
SF News Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Oracle OpenWorld Is Here We're just making sure you're aware that the annual SoMa traffic clusterf**k known as Oracle OpenWorld in which Oracle gets to shut down a whole block of Howard Street for the city's
SF News Oracle's Annual Closure Of SF Has Begun It happens every year (and somehow we get through it): Oracle's OpenWorld conference begins Sunday, which means street closures and traffic snarls in the Moscone Center area and beyond. According to the SF
SF News Microsoft Revealed As Second Company Bidding For Salesforce A week ago it was reported that Salesforce.com Inc., the largest employer in San Francisco's tech sector, was at work with financial advisers after receiving takeover offers. At that time, sources said
SF News Salesforce For Sale? SF's Largest Tech Employer Works With Bankers To Field Takeover Offers Salesforce.com Inc., San Francisco's largest tech employer and host of that really big conference called Dreamforce, has begun to work with financial advisers after receiving takeover offers, Bloomberg reports. Sources say that
SF News Oracle OpenWorld Set To Make Moscone Center Area A Mess, Again With over 60,000 expected attendees, Oracle OpenWorld is one of San Francisco's biggest conferences. Though the event doesn't start until Sunday, preparations are already underway in the area of Moscone Center, which
SF News Larry Ellison Steps Down As Oracle CEO Perhaps because he has his own island in Hawaii and another America's Cup to concentrate on now, Larry Ellison announced today that he's stepping down as CEO to take on a smaller role
SF News S.F. A Glutton for Punishment, Bids For Next America's Cup The ink is barely dry on the $5.5 million lost in taxpayer dollars incurred in the just-concluded America's Cup, but hindsight is 20/40: San Francisco is already entering a new bid
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Press Is Now Glowing, But Larry Won't Commit To Another In S.F. In the aftermath of yesterday's historic and showy win for Oracle Team USA, everyone in the local media is generally doing a mea culpa and saying, "OK, Larry. Good show." Yes, this thing
Arts & Entertainment Oracle Team USA Wins the 2013 America's Cup Larry Ellison got what he wanted, ladies and gentlemen, and Oracle Team USA retained the America's Cup with a wide lead in today's final, deciding race. We think this might mean that we
Arts & Entertainment We're Live From The America's Cup, The Greatest Contest In The History Of Sports [Updates] After months of largely ignored racing on the bay, the America's Cup comes down to one final race. The stakes are high: on the line are one bajillionaire's inflated ego and the honor
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Extending Into Tuesday As Oracle Wins Again Oracle/Team USA took another race today, bringing the score to New Zealand 8, U.S.A. 6, and meaning that the America's Cup is still not over. And, had they not cheated,
SF News Oracle Sued By Strip Club For Refusal To Pay For 'Services' As Larry Ellison takes over the waterfront and OracleWorld descends upon San Francisco, one local house of modern burlesque filed a lawsuit against the megacompany after one of its employees allegedly used an
SF News Larry Ellison's House Flag-Bombed By Kiwi Ninjas This is funny. Even though we don't understand how the America's Cup is still going, given the wide lead the New Zealanders had as of Sunday, it is still going. And the other
SF News New Zealand Still Closer To Clinching America's Cup, But U.S. Scores One It was a beautiful but windy day on the Bay yesterday, though not as windy as Saturday when Team New Zealand almost toppled their boat and the second race had to get called
Arts & Entertainment Yachtenfreude Redux: America's Cup Remains A Joke To Everyone But Larry Two more editorials today, one on Gawker and one from Mother Jones, succeed in eviscerating Larry Ellison and his great big, ultra-expensive, no-good boat race in which there's barely anyone competing at this
SF News Billionaire Yachtsman's Cheating Team Ordered To Return America's Cup Trophies Oracle Team USA, the prized group of boating enthusiasts funded by bajillionaire Larry Ellison, has been accused of cheating in last year's America's Cup World Series races and ordered to return their prized
SF News Yacht-enfreude: Oracle Capsizes Their Fanciest Sailboat Yet Yesterday afternoon during practice runs on their $8 million AC72 catamaran, Oracle Team USA took another nosedive into the bay. Skipper Jimmy Spithill, who is really making a splash around the St. Francis
SF News Battle Of The Larrys: Google & Oracle Square Off Over Intellectual Property In what some are calling the "World Series of intellectual property trials", or "Larry vs. Larry" if you're nasty, the tech world's two 8-gajillion pound gorillas are set to square off in court
SF News Folsom Street Fair Date Changed For First Time In 20 Years Typically held on the last weekend in September, milquetoast sex and fetish fete Folsom Street Fair will move its date for the first time in 20 years. Next year's butt blowout will take
SF News SFPD Bicycle Crackdown Excludes Oracle-Sponsored Pedicabs As part of their recent crackdown on bad bike behavior, SFPD once again butt heads with bike commuters, this time at Fourth and King Street. The savvy cyclists at Streetsblog reported cops around