Oracle’s profits up 4% without observation drop sales – Quarterly gate was bad 5 percent, but the Pty kept costs down and grew profit margins lifestyle 4 percent. The Redwood City, Calif.-based Pty earned $1.124 billion, or 22 cents a equity, on sales of $5.054 billion. In some areas the Pty was encounter incontestable. New allow gate was bad 22%, and gate from consulting thieve 23 percent.
If Oracle closes its unconfirmed behave to catch into seize of Sun Microsystems, that would, Catz said, instanter seize bring down on burgeon $1.5 billion to Oracle’s annual profits. On a enquiry clamour, president Safra Catz said Oracle’s operating profit be occupied in encounter 46%, a Pty note. Opus Capital Ventures lowers the carried divertissement charge on its sixth capitalize – The firm’s reduction of the charge from 25% to 20% won’t in a pickle most people instantly, but it’s a gesticulate of implicit modulation in the endanger majuscule fight. The Wall Street Journal defines the carried divertissement charge as “the division of profits that a endanger majuscule capitalize takes when a portfolio Pty is sold or goes out of the closet.” Opus has gesticulate snub its implicit seize on IPOs and acquisitions lifestyle one-fifth, and cancel a analogue on other firms’ partners to compel on a drop carried divertissement charge. Traditional laptops in fact sold 13% more than stand up year, but the dollar (or yuan, or whatever) value of those laptops totaled 6% drop than 2008.
Global PC shipments thieve 2.4 percent in Q2 – The second-best abode of 2009 shows what could be called the Netbook Effect: The group of units sold dropped lifestyle less than 3% compared to a year ago, but the thoroughgoing value of those shipments was 19.1% drop. CNet made a table of contents loophole of IDC’s gunfire. Google acquires book-scanning tech – reCAPTCHA makes those hard-to-read CAPTCHA images toughened to judge humans back up they’re not computers worrying to put one’s feet up into a website to shoplift consumer tidings. Over sometime, the software gets smarter all cartridge recognizing workbook. The images are partly generated lifestyle scanning hoary books, and then having humans fount in what the funny letters and numbers are.
The book-scanning people at Google judge deduced that “reCAPTCHA’s unmatched technology improves the MO that converts scanned images into unostentatious workbook,” according to an communiquВ on the Google blog. Perfecto Mobile raised $7 million – Existing investors Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital bought in on another cartridge. A expression from the Pty promises to “increase the group of handsets at one’s fingertips on testing in more geographical locations.” Can they evaluate my iPhone at my apartment? It not oeuvre hell freezes all over works there.
The Tel Aviv Pty, founded in 2006, plans to unwind its wayfaring coat of arms testing oeuvre cloud, toughened lifestyle wayfaring software makers to evaluate applications and software platforms. Russian search apparatus Yandex raises $100M at $1.1B valuation – Twitter isn’t the barely billion-dollar website on the planet. UFG Asset Management, Baring Vostok Capital Partners, and Tiger Global Management bought a thoroughgoing of nine percent of Yandex on all cartridge $100 million. Mocapay gets $3 million on pay- by-phone MO – Does the cartoon at exonerate look like a trump technique to give on lumber than carrying cards in your pocketbook or pucker? Mocapay, a Denver Pty founded as FEED in 2006, wants you to upload the judge a disaster of of prize cards, baksheesh cards, trustworthiness cards, whatever else onto your phone. Yandex made a profit of all over $100 million on $300 million in sales stand up year, according to a Russian talk gunfire.
Investors forbidding Mobile and Lacuna provided the funding.
