Larry Ellison

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Oracle and Google will go back to the bargaining table on Oct. 1 to settle their lawsuit over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS.

Two days of face-to-face mediation talks between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page over the companies' Android mobile OS lawsuit have yet to result in a settlement, but the door is open for negotiations to continue, according to a document filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Shares of Oracle fell in extended trading Thursday after the database giant reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue that fell just shy of estimates.

Oracle announced on Monday that chief financial officer Jeff Epstein has resigned, effective immediately. No reason was given.

Shares of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) jumped more than 4 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the database giant reported impressive second-quarter earnings.

It's so sad when former business partners have a bitter falling-out. Unless, of course, you get to blog about it.

It looks like Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker won't have to conduct Monday's earnings conference call from his special underground bunker.

When someone becomes chief executive of a major corporation and wants to meet and hear from employees, it's usually best to start where most of the employees actually are. You know, like corporate headquarters. But Leo Apotheker is forging a new template.

Have you seen this man? Apotheker is MIA, his whereabouts a mystery, at least to the outside world. And Oracle is unable to subpoena him.

The intellectual-theft case brought by Oracle Corp. against business software giant SAP AG goes to trial in a federal court next week, but Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison just can't contain his petulance until then.