Boston, MA 02\/24\/2014 (wallstreetpr)<\/b> – Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)<\/b> is reportedly staking out $400 million to acquire a promising startup called BlueKai and the deal could be closed as early as next week. BlueKai is startup that tries to understand people through the Web activities to enable marketers to better target ads. This kind of technology is known as data management platform, and BlueKai well regarded player in this segment. If ORCL succeeds with this acquisition bid, the company could among other things help marketing chiefs know for instance if the same person who accessed the Internet using iPhone also used Mac to access the Internet, among other interesting things that would improve ad offering and targeting. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is obviously making an important bid by courting BlueKai in that companies spend a lot of money every year to acquire technologies that promised better marketing strategies. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) lost 17 cents per share in the previous session to settle at $38.10.<\/p>\n
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW)<\/b> trimmed its annual bonus to just $27.5 million, down from $32 million distributed through its GoalSharing program. It is reported that this time around about 5,100 employees were captured in the bonus check distribution. Thus, the average per employee payout was roughly 6 percent of the basic salary, resulting into average bonus of check of around $5,200, the company\u2019s spokesman Joe Dunning said. The company recently posed core sales totaling $7.95 billion and realized core earnings of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2013. Shares of Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) noted a marginal gain on Friday whereby each share added 7 cents to is value to settle at $19.07.<\/p>\n
BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)<\/b> has announced that its pioneer mobile messaging app BBM will be available for Windows Phone and Nokia X in the upcoming few months. This development comes just a few days since Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)<\/b> stake out $19 billion to acquire WhatsApp which offers a competitive service. It also comes just a few hours after Nokia unveiled its new device Nokia X that is sort of an Android and Windows Phone hybrid. That BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) confided BBM to its platform and shutout users on other platforms has worked to diminish the popularity of the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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