Oracle plays campaign funding by the book
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The best politicians money can buy Four years after landing in hot water over for controversially funding US state politicians, Oracle is taking steps to ensure its executives stay squeaky-clean.â¦
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WHAT A PARTY!  My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals  By Terry McAuliffe, with Steve Kettmann  Thomas Dunne Books, 416 pp., $24.95 At the very least, there is one totally true statement in Terence R. McAuliffe's new memoir: "This is my book," he writes, "and obviously I've done my best to make myself look good." ...
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Blog: Bill Gates' investment arm is among those investing $26 million to help prop up the struggling publisher for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender market.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Oracle Corp. executives, lobbying investors to support the company&#39;s $9.2 billion hostile takeover bid, came out swinging Monday against PeopleSoft Inc.
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It is a well-worn axiom that money follows power. And that was certainly borne out by the mid-year campaign finance reports just filed by all U.S. House members Ã¢ÂÂ which exhibit the strengthened fundraising clout of the Democrats since they captured the majority of seats in last yearÃ¢ÂÂs elections.
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When it comes to touting his company's software, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is never one to mince words. But when it's the principle of free speech versus the almighty dollar, the bad boy of Silicon Valley is a veritable shrinking violet. [Missing Links]
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Oracle Corp.  launched a marketing effort on Wednesday to promote an upgrade to its database software, its latest effort to maintain a market lead against IBM  and Microsoft Corp.
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The business software maker hopes to prod rival Oracle into raising its current bid by $1.5 billion.
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Two weeks after the 2004 presidential election, a postelection tradition appears on the verge of extinction: the campaign book.
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The video game industry intends to establish a political action committee to donate money to game-friendly politicians and candidates.
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The campaign fundraising figures reported by individual House and Senate candidates do not tell a complete or necessarily accurate story of the levels of campaign spending in their races. That is because outside playersÃ¢ÂÂ spending also is a major factor in virtually all of the most competitive races Ã¢ÂÂ including the money put in by the national partiesÃ¢ÂÂ campaign committees.
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Can you feel the love? Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) Chief Executive Larry Ellison said again yesterday that that he intends to prevail in his takeover of PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people
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With political fund raising, campaign advertising and organizing taking place in full swing over the Internet, it may just be a matter of time before the Federal Election Commission joins the action.    Well, that time may be now...
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com December 20, 2004, 5:36 PM PT. Oracle appears to be putting its money where its mouth is after sealing its merger with PeopleSoft last week--acting quickly to reassure uncertain new customers of its good intentions.
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A new political action committee supports candidates who speak for the consumer when it comes to copyright law. The group doesn't have the big bucks of the entertainment companies, but it's just getting started. By Katie Dean.
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It looks like Oracle/PeopleSoft is a done deal. But why would Larry Ellison spend $10.3 billion for overlapping technology? For me, the answer comes in two parts.
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The campaign of Democrat John F. Kerry has earmarked $6 million for Democratic committees that support congressional candidates from the sizable surplus left over from the privately funded phase of his presidential campaign.