Paul Ausick

Recent Articles

Oracle, SAP Courtroom Fight Shifts into a Higher Gear

The basic fact of the copyright infringement suit brought by Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) against SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) are not in dispute. A now-discontinued unit of SAP called TomorrowNow downloaded copies of Oracle software without paying for them. Beyond that, everything is in dispute.

Yahoo Shares Rise on Report that Alibaba Might Buy Back Stake

Yesterday, word hit that AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) had hired advisers to explore strategic options for AOL, which included a possible merger with Yahoo. About the only company that doesn't appear to be interested is Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), which doesn't need the headache of any anti-trust hearings that would surely follow an attempt to tie-up with Yahoo.

AOL-Yahoo Merger Still Making News

Reports of a possible tie-up between AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) and Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) won't die and don't even seem to fade away.

T-Mobile Needs the iPhone

T-Mobile's problems are that it can't get iPhone, revenues are sliding and costs are rising.

Canada Rejects BHP Takeover of Potash Corp.

The provincial government of Saskatchewan recommended that the BHP acquisition be rejected because it did not offer any benefit to the province.