Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison shared some surprising news on the company’s second-quarter earnings call, revealing that Oracle isn’t searching for a new co-CEO to replace Mark Hurd, who passed away in October. “We have no plans for having a second CEO,” Ellison said during a Q&A on the call, in response to an analyst’s request for a status update on the search for Hurd’s successor....
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Phew! For a few months we’ve been worried that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had lost his bearings, as he reportedly looked at buying TikTok (can you imagine the cultural combination?), Pinterest (a little better) or Discord (a fit with Xbox at least). Instead, Microsoft is plunking down nearly $20 billion to buy Nuance Communications, a company about as far from the social media...
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