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o Oracle Co-CEO Safra Catz Added to Donald Trump Transition Team
o San Jose Jury Awards $7.3M to Core Wireless in Apple Patent Suit
o Report: 2016 Weakest IPO Year in U.S. Since Financial Crisis
o Online Sales for Green Monday Increase 15% from 2015 Levels
o Briefly Noted: Hornet - Blued
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o Oracle Co-CEO Safra Catz Added to Donald Trump Transition Team
Redwood City, Calif. -- Safra Catz, the co-CEO of Redwood City-based technology giant Oracle, has joined the transition team of President-elect Donald Trump. Catz accepted a position on Trump's executive committee just hours after joining other technology leaders at a meeting with Trump Wednesday in New York. Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, one of the few Silicon Valley technology luminaries to support Trump, helped facilitate that meeting, and also holds a spot on the executive committee. Catz, who has served as Oracle's co-CEO since 2014, first met with Trump in November
https://greatagain.gov/new-executive-committee-members-and-staff-leadership-positions-serving-on-transition-team-56a0ce6a3e94#.9vnle9w9s
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o San Jose Jury Awards $7.3M to Core Wireless in Apple Patent Suit
San Jose, Calif. -- Core Wireless, a unit of Canadian intellectual property firm Conversant Intellectual Property Management, said a jury in San Jose has awarded the company $7.3 million in its parent suit against Cupertino-based Apple. The jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California found that Apple infringed on two of the company's smartphone patents for innovations that improve battery life and signal quality in mobile phones. Core had alleged that Apple's recent iPhones and cellular-enabled iPads infringed both patents. The company said it also will seek interest on the award dating from 2011.
http://www.conversantip.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jury-awards-core-wireless-73-million-in-patent-litigation-against-apple-606914146.html
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o Report: 2016 Weakest IPO Year in U.S. Since Financial Crisis
London -- This year was the weakest for IPO activity in the U.S. since the global financial crisis in 2009, according to a new report by EY. Deal volume fell 36% to 1120 IPOs, while capital raised fell 37% to $21.3 billion. Still, companies that have gone public in 2016 have performed well, currently trading on average 17.6% above their debut prices. "There are a number of indicators that point to optimism in 2017," said Jackie Kelley, EY Americas IPO leader. "Private equity continues to provide a robust pipeline of strong deals. The backlog of tech companies is starting to make a debut. Unicorns are beginning to find a successful place in the public markets. This momentum, when matched with the stable, post-election markets, should lead to strong performance for IPOs in 2017." nThe full report is available at the link below.
http://www.ey.com/gl/en/newsroom/news-releases/news-ey-eyes-turn-to-2017-for-growth-as-the-ipo-market-still-reels-from-uncertainty-in-2016
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o Online Sales for Green Monday Increase 15% from 2015 Levels
Reston, Va. -- Americans spent $1.62 billion online through their desktops on Green Monday (Dec. 12), according to new figures from comScore. Sales for the day -- created by online retailers -- rose 15% from a year ago, representing the fifth heaviest online spending day of the holiday season-to-date after Cyber Monday; Tuesday, Nov. 29; Black Friday and Friday, Dec. 9. All told, consumers have spent $49.3 billion online for the holiday season to date, up 12% from 2015 levels. "We have continued to see strong online spending since Thanksgiving, with Green Monday marking the 19th consecutive billion-dollar day on desktop, bringing the total number of days achieving this milestone up to 27 for the season," said comScore CEO Gian Fulgoni. "This far surpasses last year's record of nine consecutive billion-dollar days, and it's likely we will see this trend continue through at least the end of this week before the season officially begins winding down."
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press-Releases/2016/12/Green-Monday-Online-Desktop-Spending-Up-15-Percent-Year-Over-Year-to-1-Billion-to-Rank-as-5th-Heaviest-Day-of-the-Holiday-Season-to-Date
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Hornet, developer of a gay social network, said on Friday it has entered a global cooperation agreement with Blued, the largest gay social network in China. As part of the deal, Blued will invest an unspecified amount in Hornet, which last month announced $8 million in its first round of funding, led by Ventech China.
http://love.hornetapp.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gay-social-networks-hornet-and-china-based-blued-enter-into-first-global-cooperation-300379876.html
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