41 of the Fortune 500 companies are tech companies (and here they are)

May 6, 2013 10:34 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Apple’s in the top 10 for the first time ever, Facebook hits the list, and Dell sells more than Google as Fortune Magazine released its Fortune 500 companies today, ranking the top 500 companies by global income.

Notable this year …

SQL or NoSQL: FoundationDB launches a ‘best of both worlds’ database

March 4, 2013 5:30 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

FoundationDB's team of ambitious founders are launching a new database that borrows from existing NoSQL and SQL databases, bringing developers "the best of both worlds."

Judge to Google, Oracle: tell me which bloggers you’ve paid

August 7, 2012 10:01 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Oracle v. Google re: Java found a way to get interesting again. A couple of months after Oracle's billion-dollar fishing expedition went bust when Google's Android was found not to infringe on Java patents, the judge has asked both parties which bloggers they paid.

Who’s a patent troll now? Oracle joins Google and Apple in Lodsys patent fights

June 4, 2012 5:08 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

This one goes in the I’m-not-sure-what-to think category. Oracle, the company that just failed in its attempt to sue Google for violating dubious-sounding patents relating to Java technologies acquired in the Sun takeover, is now suing Lodsys, which has somewhat …