Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison has been CEO of Oracle Corporation since he founded the company in 1977. He also races sailboats, flies planes, and plays tennis and ... More »
Larry Ellison's Ahab-Like Quest For The America's Cup
His death has many wondering whether Oracle Oracle Chief Larry Ellison has pushed the sport too far in his quest to make sailboat racing more telegenic and popular. Ellison, who won the Cup in 2010, has decreed that this year’s edition of the America’s Cup will be raced in ... Read more »
Where Today's Great Gatsbys Are Mansion Shopping
Now home to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. I grew up near Newport, Rhode Island. The robber barons of the Roaring Twenties had a ball on Bellevue Avenue. Those were the first one-percenters, and for them, those were the good ole days. They didn’t have summer homes. They had summer cottages. ... Read more »
Why Larry Page's Google I/O kumbaya moment sounded hollow
Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, has a history of filing lawsuits against rivals and then ridiculing them. "We'd like to have a cooperative relationship with Oracle," Page said. "It doesn't seem possible. " ... Read more »
America's Cup: Quest for speed turns gentlemen's sport into risky business
Sacrificing speed this late in the game would be a startling development for the America's Cup, a regatta where the fastest boat almost always wins and is now in the hands of its latest billionaire --Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who flies fighter jets for fun. Because he won the America's ... Read more »
Cassidy: Google CEO Larry Page's vocal chord ailment says much about Silicon Valley
There's Larry Ellison, Woz (at last a one-name celebrity) and Steve Jobs, who even in death continues to be a source of fascination. Our celebs have produced stories of weddings and babies and deaths to soon. They've provided tales of high-seas adventures, fabulous parties and ample ... Read more »
Photos: Hollywood Premiere of "Star Trek Into Darkness"
REUTERS/Fred Prouser Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Nikita Kahn arrive as guests for the premiere of the new film "Star Trek Into Darkness" in Hollywood May 14, 2013. Ellison's son David is the executive producer of the film. REUTERS/Fred Prouser Actress Lea Thompson arrives as a ... Read more »
After Buying Spree, Ellison Tinkers with Malibu Properties
Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison is the fifth richest man in the world, according to Forbes' recently published list of the world's billionaires. Justin Sullivan Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has spent in the neighborhood of $200 to $250 million buying up at least nine homes on Carbon Beach. ... Read more »
The Boat That Could Sink the America's Cup
Larry Ellison planned the biggest, fastest, and most exciting yacht race in history. Maybe too big: His massive catamarans are so expensive that only four teams plan to compete this summer. Then Team Oracle wrecked one in San Francisco Bay, showing just how fragile the big boat, and the ... Read more »
Italians to race in America's Cup but want changes
Billionaire Larry Ellison's Oracle Racing won the America's Cup in 2010 and choose to defend the trophy in San Francisco. Luna Rossa, Artemis and an entry from New Zealand are scheduled to begin racing each other in July to determine who takes on Oracle in September for the trophy. "We ... Read more »
Salesforce Nabs Open Source Database Guru for War on Oracle
Photo: Oleg Bartunov /Flickr The grudge match between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his former protege Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, has reached legendary proportions in recent years. Ellison and Benioff pepper their speeches and interviews with not so subtle digs at ... Read more »
America's Cup officials say race will continue
Oracle Racing won the last America's Cup in 2010 in Spain, and its owner, billionaire Larry Ellison, picked the San Francisco Bay to defend the cup. Three teams have signed up to challenge and are scheduled to begin racing one another in July to determine who will take on Oracle. The ... Read more »
America's Cup planning endures rough waters
From the moment billionaire Larry Ellison proposed holding the event in San Francisco after winning the trophy in 2010, America's Cup organizers ran into vocal political opposition, lawsuits and community protests over the public cost of the event to the city's treasury and environment. ... Read more »
Photos: Big acquisitions in the tech world
Pictured, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison speaks in September 2003. Amazon bought European counterpart to the movie rental and streaming service LOVEFiLM in January 2011 for £200 million, or $317 million. Netflix had moved into Canada months before and had been announcing plans to expand ... Read more »
Floyd Mayweather on how to make
SI: So LeBron is tight with Warren Buffet; Roger Federer is tight with Larry Ellison. Are there any captains of industry billionaires that you look up to? Mayweather: I've got billionaire tycoon buddies, but I keep that separate, to the side. You know, I do good business and I have good ... Read more »
Global warming ruins SoCal Mother's Day
(Someone might want to tell Larry Ellison about that, seeing as how he now owns at least nine fancy places on Carbon Beach. Or does he think the rules of climate change don’t apply to rich people? ) Just don’t call and ask me to do anything outside -- until it cools down... Read more »
Marketo makes a mint in IPO, San Mateo company's stock shoots more than 50 percent higher in debut -...
"I think Larry Ellison is dead wrong when he says innovation is dead and people want to buy big suites -- that's not what's happening in the world. I love our competitive position," the CEO said... Read more »
The Worst (And Best) Enterprise Cloud Strategies
Oracle — Larry Ellison has been talking big about Cloud lately. But if you look at Oracle’s recent record of destroying value in its Cloud acquisitions, all is not guaranteed. Like IBM, Oracle can do many things merely through force of will. But that still requires getting the basics ... Read more »
Top 5 Malibu Stories: Springs Fire Contained, 3 Hour Parking OKed
Just when you thought Larry Ellison was thru manipulating the Malibu real estate market...completely unreliable sources are reporting that King Lawrence I, is clandestinely acquiring positions in every one of Malibu's finer strip shopping centers...in order to launch his newest ... Read more »
The Habits of Self-Made Billionaires (Infographic)
Consider Larry Ellison, the founder of software giant Oracle. He was an orphan, and recently Ellison had estimated net worth valued at $37 billion. And Amancio Ortega, founder of fashion retailer Zara, was the child of a railroad worker and recently he had estimated net worth of ... Read more »
Young Brothers reports 4% Q1 decline in Hawaii interisland shipping
Billionaire Larry Ellison bought 98 percent of Lanai last year for an estimated $500 million. “From an industry-category perspective, construction-industry cargo was relatively strong,” Hong said. “However, cargo volumes dropped in some isolated categories with much of the overall ... Read more »
