Private Equity Intelligence reports that by 2006, the total net profits distributed to investors by private equity funds raised between 99 and 2003 was $430 billion. Read more about private equity on Henry Kravis page. Who benefits from these returns? The big winners are public pension funds, university endowments, and leading foundations. Together, these funds ...

The company that made its billions selling ads for Web searches is now officially in the telecommunications business, as Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) demonstrated Tuesday with the launch of its branded Nexus One smartphone. However, can the same success that saw “Google” become a verb be translated to the burgeoning mobile market? Is there anything in ...

Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) bid to secure the digital rights to millions of books remains under attack from rivals and other critics trying to block a revised legal settlement that would unlock a vast electronic library. The opposition fired its latest salvo Thursday, the deadline for filing objections with U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New ...

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) says it will focus strongly on customer service and support for customers of both its products and those of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA), whose acquisition it completed on Wednesday. “We believe our customers deserve the best level of support and it’s our job to make that extremely compelling,” Juergen Rottler, executive vice ...