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An Oracle Corp. investor sued the company and members of its board of directors on Thursday for allegedly trying to stonewall a whistleblower lawsuit that ultimately resulted in a $200 million settlement.

An Oracle Corp. investor sued the company and members of its board of directors on Thursday for allegedly trying to stonewall a whistleblower lawsuit that ultimately resulted in a $200 million settlement.

Large enterprises that see the perils of “Big Data” are planning ahead by upgrading their computer centers now, a senior VP of IBM (NYSE: IBM) said.

International Business Machines launched on Tuesday three services to help companies sift and understand so-called big data, hoping to get some of the $120 billion or more that businesses are expected to invest in data analytics by 2015.

Stocks opened little changed on Wednesday as investors awaited data on the housing market a day after the S&P 500 snapped a three-day winning streak.

Shares of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) rose 2 percent in pre-market trading after the No. 1 database developer reported third-quarter results that beat estimates.They fell later.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: L&L Energy, FSI International, Hartford Financial Services, Tecumseh Products, Oracle Corp, Bank of America Corp, Baker Hughes, Perfect World Co, Halliburton Co and ARIAD Pharmaceuticals.

U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday ahead of data on the housing market a day after the S&P 500 snapped a three-day winning streak.

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.4 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.2 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures also up 0.2 percent at 5 a.m. E.D.T. (0900 GMT)

Oracle Corp beat Wall Street's earnings estimates as new software sales came in at the high end of the company's forecast, offsetting a sharp drop in hardware revenue.

Oracle Corp beat Wall Street's earnings estimates as new software sales came in at the high end of the company's forecast, offsetting a sharp drop in hardware revenue.

Technology giant Oracle Corp said quarterly sales of new software rose 7 percent from a year earlier to $2.4 billion, at the high end of its own forecast.

Technology giant Oracle Corp said quarterly sales of new software rose 7 percent from a year earlier to $2.4 billion, at the high end of its own forecast.

Things got awkward in Oakland for the Warriors' brass.

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook, moving swiftly after taking over from late Silicon Valley icon Steve Jobs, fulfilled a longstanding desire of investors by initiating a quarterly dividend and share buyback that will pay out $45 billion over three years.

QuestBack, a fast-growing Norwegian developer of feedback software, is making a play for the U.S. market by opening an office and beefing up local personnel.

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 3 software developer and No. 1 in databases, is scheduled to report third-quarter results Tuesday. Last quarter, it missed estimates and the shares plunged 15 percent, shaving as much as $5.3 billion from the net worth of CEO Larry Ellison.

Oracle Corp may soon run out of excuses to feed Wall Street.

Oracle Corp may soon run out of excuses to feed Wall Street.

A U.S. judge scheduled a trial between Oracle Corp and Google Inc for April 16, 2012, over claims Google violated Oracle's intellectual property rights relating to the Java programming language, according to a ruling on Tuesday.

A U.S. judge scheduled a trial between Oracle Corp and Google Inc for April 16, 2012, over claims Google violated Oracle's intellectual property rights relating to the Java programming language, according to a ruling on Tuesday.

The top pre-market NASDAQ gainers are: Tudou Holdings, Ku6 Media Co, Zoll Medical Corp, Orexigen Therapeutics and Meru Networks. The top pre-market losers are: Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Human Genome Sciences, Yongye International, Logitech International and Oracle Corp.

Oracle Corp, the world's No. 3 software maker, lacks catalysts for growth as its integrated systems business is seeing slower-than-expected adoption and software unit is facing higher competition, Jefferies & Co said and downgraded the stock to hold.

A year ago, Apple had its weight in the Nasdaq 100 cut in half after having grown to where it tipped the scales at more than one-fifth of the index.

Intel Corp took the wraps off its newest Xeon server chip on Tuesday, seeking to capitalize on an explosion of Internet traffic sparked by Web-based cloud computing, social networking and growing smartphone and tablet computer use.

Oracle Corp and SAP AG are scheduled to kick off a retrial on June 18, 2012, over copyright infringement allegations against a SAP unit, a U.S. judge ordered on Tuesday.

Wayin, the new social media venture backed by Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy, announced it has raised $14 million in Series B funding from U.S. Venture Partners.

Berkshire Hathaway has identified its next chief executive, who will succeed Warren Buffett when the 81-year-old investor is no longer running the company, Buffett said in his annual letter to shareholders on Saturday.

Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest computer company, reported first-quarter earnings that beat expectations as higher margin products sold more strongly than expected.