Oracle

The private sector lender says Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications have helped unify finance, HR and customer experience operations, driving automation, productivity gains and cost savings

US software major Oracle is considering its biggest round of layoffs in years, as financing pressure mounts around its ambitious AI data centre expansion.

Oracle is raising money to build additional capacity to meet the contracted demand from the company's largest cloud customers, including Advanced Micro Devices

Employees linked to data centres and non-core units are likely to be most at risk

Some stocks that rallied last year have been among the biggest laggards of 2025, while many underperformers have emerged as winners

After Warner Bros board rejected its offer, Paramount Skydance said Larry Ellison will provide a $40.4 billion irrevocable personal guarantee backing its $108.4 billion bid

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.7 per cent, tracking mostly higher US markets on Thursday - the Dow and Russell 2000 indices hit new highs but the Nasdaq fell

Sensex Today | Stock Market Highlights, December 12, 2025: In the broader markets, the Nifty MidCap index advanced 1.18 per cent, and the Nifty SmallCap index 0.94 per cent

SoftBank Group Corp.'s shares have tumbled 40 per cent from late October, while Oracle Corp.'s stock has given up all gains made since early September

Sensex Today | Stock Market close: In the broader markets, the Nifty MidCap 100 rose marginally by 0.1 per cent and the Nifty SmallCap 100 indices fell 0.1 per cent, respectively

Sam Altman and his top team at OpenAI struck chip and infrastructure deals worth up to $1.5 trillion with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle and others, often without help from bankers or lawyers

They claim to be affiliated with a criminal outfit called Cl0p, which began sending extortion emails on or before Sept 29, according to the head of cybercrime at Google Threat Intelligence Group

TikTok and Oracle have spent years and billions securing US user data under "Project Texas," closely resembling the plan Trump outlined this week

The rough estimate, cited by Vice President JD Vance on Thursday, is well below previous projections that scaled closer to $40 billion

ByteDance will own less than 20% while TikTok US will be controlled by a mix of its existing US and global firms as well as a significant number of new investors who have no affiliation with ByteDance

Ellison's Hollywood and Big Media push could outsize Bezos' Washington Post and Benioff's Time buys, which were viewed as costly hobbies rather than transformative media power plays

If finalised, a deal will resolve a sticking point in Beijing-Washington relations and help shape the fate of China's most valuable private company

A merger of the two would shrink Hollywood's major legacy studios to four and unite some of the biggest names in news, movies and TV, inviting regulatory scrutiny

Elon Musk first became the world's richest person in 2021, briefly lost the spot to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, then reclaimed the title last year

Sensex Today | Stock Market Highlights, September 11, 2025: Among the broader markets, the Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 indices settled with gains of 0.12 per cent and 0.03 per cent