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Oracle hires 5,000 for cloud business

Bloomberg Oracle Corp. is hiring another 5,000 employees for its cloud software business as it fights Salesforce.com Inc. for market share in the fast-growing industry. The hiring surge aims to beef up what’s already Oracle’s fastest-growing business, increasing revenue by 58 percent in the quarter it reported June 21 compared with a year earlier. The move is the latest in ...

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Just Eat’s takeout deal tests UK merger regulator’s concern

Bloomberg Pizza, Thai or Indian? You might think British takeouts have plenty of ways to serve hungry customers poring over menus from their iPhones or laptops. They can sell direct through their own apps or websites like Domino’s Pizza Group Plc and Pizza Hut, use delivery specialists such as Amazon.com Inc., UberEats and Deliveroo, or log on to a restaurant ...

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China creates power behemoth as Xi okays Shenhua, Guodian merger

Bloomberg China’s creating the world’s largest power company. The government of President Xi Jinping approved the merger of Shenhua Group Corp., the country’s top coal miner, with China Guodian Corp., one of the largest power generators, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said in a one-sentence statement posted online on Monday. The new entity, with assets of 1.8 trillion ...

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