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Oracle CEO Safra Catz: “We did not buy Sun to file this lawsuit”

Oracle CEO Safra Catz, speaking at Oracle OpenWorld in 2011. (credit: KIMIHIRO HOSHINO / AFP / Getty Images.)

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle CEO Safra Catz took the stand in federal court today as her company makes its case that Google should pay billions of dollars for using 37 Java APIs in its Android operating system.

Oracle, which acquired Java when...

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FBI offers crypto assistance to local cops: “We are in this together”

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In a new two-paragraph letter to state and local law enforcement partners, the FBI reiterated its commitment to helping those agencies unlock seized encrypted devices.

The letter was first reported Friday evening and published by BuzzFeedbefore being sent to Ars and presumably other media outlets.

Earlier this week, government prosecutors formally asked a federal judge in...

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Internal email: Microsoft launches investigation into Xbox ‘schoolgirl’ dancer incident; ‘We are not going to tolerate this,’ says HR chief
Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft executive vice president of human resources.
Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft executive vice president of human resources.

Microsoft’s top executives were “embarrassed and appalled” upon seeing photos of female dancers in schoolgirl outfits at a Microsoft Xbox-sponsored event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, the company’s executive vice president of human...

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Goldman Sachs upgrades Microsoft stock and admits, “We were wrong’
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In a rare mea culpa from Wall Street, analysts from Goldman Sachs this morning upgraded Microsoft stock from “sell” to “neutral” — acknowledging that they “failed to appreciate” that the Redmond company’s share price would defy lower earnings expectations thanks to promising signs in the company’s cloud computing business. “We were wrong,” wrote Goldman Sachs analyst...
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