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Wanova Collects $13 Million

Startup emerges from stealth mode and announces it has bagged a $13 million investment from venture firms, becoming the latest virtualization software developer to attract attention.
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Broadcom Offers Emulex $764M

Chip maker hopes to jump on the wave of tech integration and consolidation taking place in the IT data center.
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Venture Gets Seat at Obama’s Table

Kleiner Perkins' Doerr named to policy-shaping panel for economic recovery.
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Oracle Snaps Up mValent

‘Opportunistic’ enterprise software giant grabs IT automation company backed by Polaris, Charles River and Flybridge.
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Microsoft’s Pain, Cloud’s Gain?

No. 1 software company plans up to 5,000 layoffs, posts 11% decline in net income; Ballmer says Yahoo deal still appealing.
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Stock Market 'Buffets' Bill Gates

He loses slot as richest man on Forbes list to his pal Warren Buffett.
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Tech Stocks Soar Along With Market

Shares of Silicon Valley companies post big gains as the Nasdaq jumps by 86.42 points and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rises by 416.66 points, its best day since 2002.
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TechSpin: Are Google and Microsoft Strategies Sound?

Google is edging into applications. Microsoft wants more search power. Whatever happened to playing to your strengths?
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Microsoft Snaps Up Israeli Ad Targeter

YaData, a maker of online tools that was seeded by Oracle, to be folded into Microsoft R&D center.
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Oracle Snatches BEA for $8.5B

BEA's patience pays off as Larry Ellison's business software giant hikes bid from original $6.7 billion offer.
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NetSuite IPO Hits Larry Ellison's Sweet Spot

Oracle CEO sees his share value balloon to $843.7 million in Dutch auction-like IPO; shares edge up in business software firm's NYSE debut.
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Ellison's NetSuite Hikes IPO Range Again

At revised range of $19 to $22 per share, maker of on-demand business software could vault into the top 10 of venture-backed IPOs for '07.
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Microsoft Unleashes VMware Killer

Software beast begins public trials of new virtualization software that competes with programs from VMware. The EMC-owned virtualization company's shares skidded 6 percent lower while Microsoft gained 2.5 percent.
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Wetpaint Spreads to Enterprise Market

Consumer wiki developer Wetpaint launches its enterprise version to jump into the crowded business arena that includes Socialtext, Wikia, Near-Time, and HiveLive.
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Gavel Drops for Netsuite IPO

Google-style auction for Larry Ellison-owned company opens with pricing expected December 19.
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Ellison’s Netsuite Sails Toward IPO

On-Demand software startup owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison could raise $99.2 million in its IPO, sending the 2007 new-issues market out with a bang.
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India’s $15 Billion Software Challenge

Tech leaders call on the Indian software industry, struggling to overcome cultural obstacles on innovation, to grow the country’s output of software from the current $1 billion to $15 billion by 2015.
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Oracle Chases VMware

Oracle executives demonstrate Oracle VM at the Oracle Open World users conference in San Francisco on Monday. The database software beast wants a piece of EMC's VMware, a rival virtualization software product.
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IBM: Cognos for $5 Billion

Big Blue agrees to acquire Cognos for $5 billion, gobbling up the last major independent maker of business intelligence software.
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BEA to Icahn: We’re Working on It

After Oracle’s deadline passes, the board tells activist shareholder that it won’t be pressured to sell at what it considers a fire-sale price.
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