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Zero down on a $2mn house is no problem in Silicon Valley

  Bloomberg It turns out that even the well-off need help in a housing market as crazy as the one in the San Francisco Bay area, and lenders are elbowing each other in a rush to provide it. They’re courting Silicon Valley workers with tailored loans, guaranteed 24-hour approval and financial-planning services. Social Finance Inc. has deals with Google and ...

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Oracle purchase of NetSuite will help vie with cloud rivals

  Bloomberg Oracle Corp., lagging the competition in cloud-based services, is essentially buying market share with its $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite Inc. Oracle has been trying for years to shift from selling software installed on corporate customers’ gear the old way to delivering it over the internet. Yet in its most recent quarter, the company said the cloud division ...

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Nintendo NX to be fully portable

  Relaxnews September brings with it a first reveal of Nintendo’s next home console, and a new report indicates that it will be a tablet-style affair with big screen capabilities. The Nintendo NX will combine handheld and stationary console design standards, with each controller comprising a display “bookended by two [detachable] controllers on each side,” according to a new report. ...

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