Even so, Mr Ellison remains the world’s fifth-richest man, and Oracle the third-biggest software firm. He has a thing or two ...

It’s been a decade since Larry Ellison stepped down from his CEO post at Oracle and almost half a century since he cofounded the software giant. But the 80-year-old billionaire still looms large ...

Annapurna Interactive President Nathan Gary and his team had been negotiating with Ellison, the daughter of billionaire Larry Ellison, to spin off the video-game division as an independent entity.