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Oracle and Microsoft are negotiating a TikTok takeover, ByteDance could retain a minority stake

TechSpot

The plan to save TikTok involves software company Oracle and a group of outside investors effectively taking control of the app's global operations, two sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations told NPR. Read Entire Article

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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

Oracle , a decade-long war over the future of software, neared its end in the Supreme Court this week as a battle of metaphors. Oracle covers a complex question : what elements of computer code can be copyrighted, and if that code is covered by copyright, when it’s still legal to use pieces of it under fair use. Alex Castro.

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NVIDIA and Oracle oppose new US AI chip regulations

TechNode

Imposing controls on them is pointless and could prompt the global market to seek alternatives, which would undermine US interests,” read a NVIDIA statement in response to the move. Jiemian , in Chinese]

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Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup

TechCrunch

million in seed funding from Y Combinator and Global Brain. Legacy ERPs provided by companies such as SAP, Oracle and NetSuite (which is owned by Oracle) and local players like OBIC , are difficult to customize for users, according to Shibata.

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Oracle pours $5B into UK cloud expansion

CIO Dive

The investment will help the company build its global compute capacity and support AI development.

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Nigeria’s SeamlessHR raises $10M to expand HR and payroll solutions across Africa

TechCrunch

SeamlessHR has also eaten into the market share of legacy and “on-premise” systems like SAP and Oracle, commonly used by large companies locally. He also hinted at the possibility of SeamlessHR scaling beyond Africa into other global markets, referencing the recent strides made by India’s Freshworks. “We

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

After six years as a software engineer at Oracle, Xie left the U.S. Like many Chinese entrepreneurs these days, Xie named his startup in English to mark the firm’s vision to be “global from day one.” and headed home to start Zilliz in China.