President Trump signed Executive Order 14352 titled ‘Saving TikTok While Protecting National Security’ on September 25, 2025, approving a deal that allows TikTok to continue operating in the United States under majority U.S. ownership. The order extended the enforcement deadline by 120 …
Trump signed an executive order approving a TikTok deal that hands control to close allies Larry Ellison (Oracle), Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch (Fox Corp), and Michael Dell, with Oracle managing the algorithm and security infrastructure. The investor group—including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen …
Meta announced a groundbreaking policy shift, making its open-source Llama AI models available to US government agencies and defense contractors. Partnering with companies like Accenture, AWS, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Scale AI, and others, Meta opened its technology for national …
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg granted preliminary approval on August 9, 2024, to a class action settlement requiring Oracle Corporation to pay $115 million and implement changes to its data brokerage practices. The settlement resolves the lawsuit filed in August 2022 alleging that Oracle …
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison purchased the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa in Manalapan, Florida, for $277 million in August 2024, bringing his total real estate investment in the exclusive 400-resident island town to $450 million. Located approximately 20 minutes from Donald Trump’s …
Oracle Corporation spent approximately $11 million on federal lobbying during 2024, maintaining its position among an exclusive group of companies that exceeded eight figures in annual lobbying expenditures. This lobbying investment placed Oracle alongside tech giants including Amazon, …
Oracle announced on August 15, 2023, that its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) received authority to operate Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) from the 18-agency Intelligence Community, marking a major expansion of Oracle’s access to the nation’s most classified …
Three privacy rights advocates filed a class action lawsuit against Oracle Corporation on August 19, 2022, in the Northern District of California, alleging that the company operates a “worldwide surveillance machine” that has compiled detailed digital dossiers on approximately 5 billion …
TikTok and Oracle formally launched “Project Texas” in July 2022, a comprehensive data isolation initiative designed to address U.S. national security concerns by migrating all American user data to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure and establishing new corporate structures to limit …
The U.S. Department of Defense granted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) authority to operate (ATO) for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP) missions on February 15, 2022, authorizing Oracle to host and process some of the Pentagon’s most …
The Defense Department cancels the controversial $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) cloud computing contract previously awarded to Microsoft in 2019, ending two years of bitter litigation with Amazon Web Services. The Pentagon announces a new multi-vendor procurement approach …
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison donated $30 million to Opportunity Matters Fund, a super PAC supporting Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), over the course of 2021 and 2022. This massive contribution followed an initial $5 million donation in October 2020, bringing Ellison’s total support for Scott to $35 …
The Central Intelligence Agency awarded its Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract to five major technology companies—Oracle, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, and IBM—on November 20, 2020. The multi-cloud contract, valued at tens of billions of dollars over a 15-year period, represents …
Oracle Corporation announced on September 14, 2020, that ByteDance had selected Oracle as TikTok’s “trusted technology provider” in the United States, positioning Oracle to provide cloud infrastructure services and security oversight for TikTok’s U.S. operations. The …
Oracle’s BlueKai Data Management Platform exposed billions of records containing sensitive web tracking data through an unsecured cloud server discovered on June 19, 2020, in one of the largest data breaches of the year. The database, left accessible to the public internet without password …
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison hosted President Donald Trump at his Rancho Mirage, California estate on February 19, 2020, for a high-dollar campaign fundraiser that raised approximately $7 million for Trump’s reelection campaign. Attendees paid $100,000 for a golf outing and photo opportunity …
Oracle Corporation acquired BlueKai, one of the world’s largest data brokerage and web tracking companies, on February 24, 2014, for approximately $400 million, significantly expanding Oracle’s commercial surveillance capabilities. The acquisition gave Oracle control of one of the …
Oracle Corporation filed a lawsuit against Google on August 13, 2010, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging copyright and patent infringement over Google’s use of Java application programming interfaces (APIs) and approximately 11,000 lines of Java source …
Oracle Corporation completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems on January 27, 2010, for approximately $7.4 billion ($9.50 per share in cash), gaining control of critical software infrastructure including the Java programming language, MySQL open-source database, and Sun’s hardware systems …
Oracle Corporation completed its acquisition of PeopleSoft on December 13, 2004, for approximately $10.3 billion ($26.50 per share), concluding an 18-month hostile takeover battle after defeating the Department of Justice’s antitrust challenge. The final purchase price represented more than …
The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit on February 26, 2004, seeking to block Oracle Corporation’s proposed hostile acquisition of PeopleSoft, alleging that the merger would substantially reduce competition in the enterprise software market and result in higher prices, less …
Oracle Corporation launched an unsolicited hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft on June 6, 2003, with an initial cash tender offer of $16.00 per share, valuing the enterprise software competitor at approximately $5.1 billion. The timing proved particularly aggressive, as Oracle announced the bid only …
Oracle Corporation hired David W. Carney as Vice President of Information Assurance on September 4, 2001, just one week before the September 11 terrorist attacks, marking a significant deepening of Oracle’s relationship with the U.S. intelligence community. Carney retired after 32 years at the …
Computer programmers Larry Ellison and Robert Miner founded the company that would become Oracle Corporation in 1977 after persuading the CIA to let them pick up a lapsed $50,000 contract to build a special database program. The company takes its name from “Project Oracle,” a CIA …