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Amazon, BlackRock, Google, Warren Buffett and hundreds of other companies and executives signed on to a new statement, expected to be released Wednesday, opposing “any discriminatory legislation” that would make it harder for people to vote.
It was the biggest show of solidarity by the business community as companies around the country try to navigate the partisan uproar over Republican efforts to enact new election rules in almost every state. Senior Republicans, including former President Donald Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell, have called for companies to stay out of politics.
Oracle CEO Safra Catz speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 in San Francisco
The trio of defeats underscore the limits of a strategy that relied on Oracle’s ties to the Trump White House and other politicians and ratchet up the pressure on Ellison and Chief Executive Officer Safra Catz to find ways to keep the existing product lineup vital.
“They’re just throwing everything against the wall at this point to see what sticks,” said Anurag Rana, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. But to improve its fortunes, Oracle will have to focus on the fundamentals of its software business. “The big issue for them is how to revive growth and it does not look like much is happening on that front,” he added.
LL COOL J Announces $8M Series A Funding Round for Rock The Bells
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Hip-hop stalwart and Hollywood entertainer James Todd Smith is continuing to rock the bells, well over 35 years after starting his legendary music and acting career.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the
NCIS: Los Angeles actor, also known as LL COOL J, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round for his company, Rock The Bells, which is named after a song off his debut album,
Radio as well as the name of his SiruisXM radio show. The funding round for Rock The Bells was led by Raine Ventures.
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When the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra played its last concert in front of an audience in late February 2020, its members thought they had a bright and busy future ahead of them. We left with the expectation of going out for another long tour and to have all this new music and new shows and stuff that we re doing and everything got cut off, said orchestra saxophonist Sherman Irby of Warren.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic scuttled those plans, resulting in what Irby described as the first time that probably all of the orchestra have spent not playing with other people for almost a year. It’s a definite change in what we have been dealing with, for those of us my age, for the last 40 years, basically playing in front of people and playing with others.”