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Timpu (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Boston, Jul 4: About 1,000 European Oracle Corp workers will be receiving pink slips as the global economic crisis has managed to break down the giant corporation too.The company will be laying off about one thousand of its European staff Click Here To Read the Full Post
A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nadeem Walayat has over 20 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets. Nadeem is also the Editor of The Market Oracle, a Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting online publication. Someone then who knows what they’re talking about when they say "SNP Would Bankrupt an Independent Scotland, But Benefit England"? Read more and...
Mark Logic CEO Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Quick post to highlight this New York Times story, Spinning the Web: PR in Silicon Valley . The article starts with the story of a start-up first pondering, and then deciding not to pitch the big tech blogs like TechCrunch. Excerpt: Instead, [publicist Brooke Hammerling] decides that she will “whisper in the ears” of Silicon Valley’s Who’s Who — the entrepreneurs behind...
Cnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the north side of the Great Salt Lake, far from civilization, is one of the grandest pieces of large-scale art in the world. Made up of volcanic basalt, Spiral Jetty is a Road Trip 2009 highlight.
Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obviously, this guy has good taste. Here is a sample of the LinkedIn networking groups he belongs to: Here are the links to the networking groups managed by Midas Oracle (”PMs” is the most popular, the others are to be developed): Midas Oracle @ LinkedIn Internet Strategy @ LinkedIn Prediction Markets @ LinkedIn Collective Forecasting @ LinkedIn Chris F. Masse @ [...] Midas Oracle = Archives...
Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Dawn Tevekelian Keller (formerly at Best Buy) does not write for Robin Hanson et al.: This blog is not geared toward the existing Prediction Market intelligentsia. While I would be honored to have fellow enthusiasts read and critique this blog, I’m not writing this for them, specifically. I’m writing for a general business audience, decision makers in [...] Midas Oracle = Archives + Best...
Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
The sometimes excellent prediction market blogger “Wiser Than The Crowd” says that he will disclose his real name, soon. (An upcoming Slate article will feature him, he says.) That is a great news, as it will bring more credibility to his prediction market journalism, and will allow him to be a full member of the [...] Midas Oracle = Archives + Best + Predictions + Links + Publish + How...
TechChuck (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
The flagship defense system for U.S. government computer networks is stalled - Einstein, as its called, began rollout seven years ago. A Wall Street Journal report says Homeland Security officials are saying Einstein won't be fully installed for at least another eighteen months. iPhone " jailbreak " excites nerds, confuses normals - Business Insider explains that in theory, a jailbroken...
SOA in Action Blog (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
In rolling out the latest edition of Oracle Fusion Middleware (11g), Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware products, talked about the six major trends Oracle sees driving the market. Three are business-related trends, and three are technology...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
French unions for the software company Oracle Corp. say the company has told them it plans to cut between 850 and 1,000 jobs in Europe in response to slowing growth. In a joint statement, five of the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company's French unions said... Sponsored Topics: Oracle - Oracle Corporation - Redwood Shores California - Databases - California
CloudAve (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
ProfitBase and GoIWx Announce Partnership to Bring Hosted SaaS Business Intelligence to North American Market ProfitBase has announced their partnership with GoIWx to bring a cost effective SaaS Business Intelligence (BI) solution to businesses in North America. "We have ready-to-use connectors for many business systems, including Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, AX and NAV, AS/400, Oracle and LS...
Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
The New Options Market – Peter Seed’s new website. The New Options Market was designed for the benefit of new option traders. Each video offers a concise presentation of an option strategy with illustrative examples – all in less than five minutes. Midas Oracle = Archives + Best + Predictions + Links + Publish + [...] Midas Oracle = Archives + Best + Predictions + Links + Publish...
Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
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kuro5hin.org (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Sun recently merged with Oracle, but they bought out some virtual machine software like Virtual Iron, Xen, etc to combine over four virtualzation technologies into VirtualBox.
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
More relational DBMS bashing – check Dave Kellogg’s full post for more details Mike Stonebraker spoke today at SIGMOD (see Tweetstream ) where, among other things there was a 40-year anniversary celebration of the relational DBMS and, in what I suspect is non-coincidental timing, Mike did a post on the CACM site entitled The End of a DBMS Era (Might be Upon Us) . Excerpt: Moreover, the...
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