Fri, Apr 9th 2021 9:37am
Mike Masnick
Over the last decade or so, the fight between Oracle and Google has seemed incredibly personal at least on the Oracle side. Of course, many have argued the main reason for Oracle s attacks on Google were to pressure the company into settling its long-running fight over the Java API and the Supreme Court just put an end to that so it will be interesting to watch whether or not the attacks continue. But there s an important point buried in all of this. Almost everything Oracle accuses Google of doing. it does itself. Often in much more nefarious ways. I mean, Oracle even copied an API without a license. But Oracle s grand projection in blaming Google for the things that Oracle actually does (in much worse ways) goes way further than that.
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Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace
Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House.
Days after winning the November election, Joe Biden announced the names of those staffing his transition. Big Tech landed prominent spots. Among the hundreds of personnel on the agency review teams serving the president-elect, there was one from Uber, two from Amazon, and one from Google. And then there were two people from Rebellion Defense, a shadowy defense startup.
The announcement sent Washington insiders scrambling to look up the company. No major defense contractors appeared on the list. âItâs sure odd that a year-old startup like Rebellion winds up with two employees serving on a presidential transition team,â Ken Glueck, the executive vice president of the tech company Oracle, told me.
Tue, Dec 29th 2020 9:41am
Mike Masnick
A few weeks ago, Oracle announced that it was moving its headquarters out of Redwood Shores, in the middle of Silicon Valley, to Austin, Texas. The move is more symbolic than anything else. The company told employees they can continue working from wherever they want and founder Larry Ellison sent an email to all employees saying he ll be working from the island of Lanai, which he purchased a few years ago. But the symbolism of the move works in multiple ways. Despite being founded and headquartered in Silicon Valley for almost half a century, Oracle has long represented the anti-Silicon Valley approach to innovation.
With great fanfare last week, 44 attorneys general hit Google with two antitrust complaints, following a landmark lawsuit the Justice Department and 11 states lodged against the Alphabet Inc. unit