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Chinese technology company ByteDance announces a proposed joint deal with American corporations Oracle and Walmart to continue the operation of its video-sharing social networking service TikTok in the United States under the name Tiktok Global. U.S. President Donald Trump recognizes the proposal, having threatened to ban the service in suspicion of Chinese espionage should ByteDance have failed to reach a deal with an American firm.
2020-09-19

The United States Department of Commerce says it will ban U.S. citizens from downloading the Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat effective September 20, unless a partnership between Oracle Corporation and TikTok owner ByteDance is agreed to and approved by President Donald Trump.
2020-09-18

A lawsuit brought against Google by Oracle Corporation accusing Google of using copyrighted code for the Android operating system is decided in Google's favor.
2016-05-26

The Solicitor General of the United States sides with Oracle in a much-watched copyright dispute with Google over Java APIs.
2015-05-28

The social networking giant Facebook announces that it was the target of sophisticated hackers, who through a then-unknown bug from Oracle's Java on an infected website, managed to infiltrate employees' laptops, and then the internal networks. There was no user data collected, but certain code and corporate e-mails could have been exfiltrated.
2013-02-15

Software company Oracle announces that it is looking for damages "in the billions of dollars" from Google in an ongoing patent law action over the smartphone.
2011-06-16

A United States federal court jury decides that SAP AG must pay Oracle Corporation $1.3 billion for copyright infringement, the largest ever damages payment for copyright infringement.
2010-11-23

The business-software giant Oracle files a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco alleging that Micron Technology, a manufacturer of memory chips, colluded with other manufacturers to fix prices.
2010-09-28