Let's get one thing out of the way at the start: just like in royal families, sports have their lineages. Fathers and sons have passed on the torch in basketball, football, and baseball.
I am sitting with Jimmy Spithill, and I am giddy. I ask, "Who do you race for? Larry Ellison, Oracle Team USA, or San Francisco?" I have managed to corral Spithill, the skipper for Oracle Team USA, at a bar on Union Street, and we have headed to the back of the room to talk about the upcoming races.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The margin for error is exceedingly small for a sailor sitting three stories above the San Francisco Bay on the side of a high-tech c...
HONOLULU (AP) — Larry Ellison bought a small commuter airline in Hawaii in part to ensure it would continue service to the island that is mostly own...
It seems the Beatles were right: money really can't buy you love. Forbes published their annual World's Billionaires list on Monday and we here at...
Larry Ellison, America's third richest man, has purchased Hawaii's Island Air. The Oracle CEO, who bought 98 percent of the island of Lanai last y...
We sometimes take our favorite philanthropists for granted. Maybe it's because throwing around a few million to support global education here, writ...
LOS ANGELES — Oracle Corp. said Monday it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of ...
I ran around the house this morning making sure the Java plugin was turned off in all our web browsers on all our computers. Why was I so panicked? Because the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning late this week about Java.
The holiday season, when Americans make legions of bad choices about money, seemed like a good time to revisit one of the most venerable stereotypes about money: that Jews have it and hoard it.
Nowadays, you don't have to be super-duper rich to buy a private island, just normal super-rich with sprinkles of eccentricity. So fill out that busin...
With apologies to Frank Sinatra, 2012 wasn't a very good year for celebrities with homes on the market, and maybe not so good for anyone else with a h...
Larry Ellison's America's Cup sailing team has been accused by its Italian competitor of spying, a practice as old as the 161-year-old America's Cup t...
The economy will eventually improve. When it does, the organizations that are social, mobile, in the cloud, and using big data will be on top. The rest of you will wonder what happened.
By Malia Mattoch McManus HONOLULU, Hawaii (Reuters) - If Oracle billionaire CEO Larry Ellison has his way, the Hawaiian island of Lanai...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison envisions his recently acquired Hawaiian island becoming a "little laboratory" for experimenting with ...
A few years ago, the peons-with-no-beach access used to marvel over who would wind up as the King of Carbon Beach -- an exclusive stretch of Malibu, C...
One of the world's richest men seems set on owning one of the most expensive beaches on earth - after buying his ninth mansion on a half-mile long str...
When the end draws near and prospects darken, and polls solidify in the wrong direction, and the base sinks lower than the toenail clippings of a Galapagos turtle, does the practiced political operative give up?
BOSTON (Reuters) - Technology company Oracle Corp increased billionaire CEO Larry Ellison's compensation for last year by 24 percent. E...
Owning a private island is something very few people can even dream of. But some of the super-rich not only own a slice of paradise, they’ve also ma...
Some repeat visitors to Hawaii advise you to shun Oahu, where Honolulu is located, because it's a bit too bustling and "urban." But if you haven't visited Honolulu lately, you might be in for a surprise.
(The author is a Reuters contributor.) By Lou Carlozo CHICAGO, June 29 (Reuters) - You don't have to be Larry Ellison t...
Billionaires could be a dying breed in the United States--but not so in China. The country saw a 20 percent increase in the number of households with ...
HONOLULU -- Buying an inhabited Hawaiian island may sound extreme, even for a guy known for flaunting his fortune like a playboy – driving fancy...
