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Oracle Spends $11 Million on Federal Lobbying, Focuses on TikTok Data Storage Deal

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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, …

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Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership

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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 …

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Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure

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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 …

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