Tag: relies

07 AUG

Oracle founder Larry Ellison says its ’embarrassing’ for Amazon that it relies so heavily on Oracle’s technology (ORCL, AMZN)

Oracle Oracle founder Larry Ellison said “it’s kind of embarrassing” for Amazon that it uses Oracle’s databases to power its own business — especially considering Amazon offers its own databases that compete with Oracle’s.  Ellison was responding to a report from last week that Amazon intends to get off of Oracle’s products completely by 2020.  […]

03 FEB

Tesla’s plan to charge electric semis relies on its customers

Customers have been lining up to order some of Tesla’s electric big rigs since the Semi debuted in November, but there is one big question: where will they get charged? According to Reuters, at first the rollout will rely on customers like Pepsi and UPS to build on-site “megachargers” and trucks will be restricted to […]

09 NOV

Marc Benioff relies on these monks for guidance — here are their tips for holding better, more mindful meetings (CRM)

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has a close relationship with the monks and nuns from Plum Village. The monastics, as they’re known, visited San Francisco from around the US and France this week for Salesforce’s 170,000-person conference, where they have a tent set up to share mindfulness and meditation practices with conference attendees.  One of those […]

12 MAY

A new sort of hedge fund relies on crowd-sourcing

“QUANT” hedge funds have long been seen as the nerdy vanguard of finance. Firms such as Renaissance Technologies, Two Sigma and Man AHL, each of which manages tens of billions of dollars, hire talented mathematicians and physicists to sit in their airy offices and develop trading algorithms. But what if such talent could be harnessed […]