Pre-Marketing: Should Oracle finally buy HP?

• Dear Oracle: Please buy us (signed Autonomy)

  Oracle won't let Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch off the hook

  Some advice for Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch: You can obfuscate about what is said in a private conversation. But if you also leave behind a slide-deck, it's best to either come clean or keep your mouth shut.

  Autonomy is the British enterprise software company that HP (HPQ) agreed to buy last month for $10.3 billion. In a subsequent earnings call, Oracle CEO MORE

  Dan Primack - Sep 29, 2011 12:44 PM ET
  Posted in: Autonomy, Larry Ellison, M&A, Oracle

• Schumer adds new weight to repatriation tax talks

  Apple, Cisco, and other multinationals are lobbying hard for a tax break on foreign income. They may have a new ally in Sen. Chuck Schumer.

  By Tory Newmyer, writer

  FORTUNE -- The campaign by U.S. multinationals to sell Congress on a corporate tax break for their overseas profits has looked so far like tilting at windmills. Even backers of the so-called repatriation tax holiday have quietly acknowledged it's a political stinker that MORE

  Jun 21, 2011 8:45 AM ET
  Posted in: apple, Chuck Schumer, cisco, Duke Energy, Macro, Oracle, Repatriation, taxes