(Bloomberg/Brody Ford, Dylan Sloan and Tom Maloney) — When the year began, a billionaire with close ties to the White House was a lock for the most newsworthy tech titan of 2025. But 12 chaotic months ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Oracle founder Larry Ellison personally guarantees $40.4 billion to support his son’s Paramount bid for Warner ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Paramount amended its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday and said Larry Ellison has made an “irrevocable” financial ...

Mr. Ellison’s personal guarantee is meant to address concerns that the Warner Bros. Discovery’s board had expressed about Paramount’s original offer. By Lauren Hirsch Paramount said on Monday that ...

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Elon Musk became the first person to be worth $600 billion on Monday, according to Forbes, making the gap between him becoming a trillionaire less than the gap between him and the next richest person, ...

Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday, Dec. 14 Billy Crystal and Larry David visited the home of Rob Reiner shortly after reports of his death ...

Three months after Larry Ellison briefly became the world’s richest person, a historic slide in Oracle Corp. shares sent his net worth plunging by $24.9 billion. Oracle shares slumped by 11% Thursday ...

Larry Ellison dropped among the ranks of the world’s richest people on Thursday, falling to No. 3 as Oracle’s stock paced its worst single-day rout in nearly a year after the cloud services firm ...

The net worth of Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) founder Larry Ellison takes a hit. A poor earnings report that pushed Oracle’s stock down sharply is to blame for that. Are you ahead, or behind on ...

In the fall of 2013, prominent Harvard professor Elisa New filmed a short interview with the controversial movie director Woody Allen in which they debated a poem about a man eating plums. The footage ...

During his playing years, Larry Bird was a master of psychological warfare. Before he even torched his opponents with his skills, Larry Legend would break their confidence first with his sharp tongue.