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Larry Ellison

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Warriors, City Make Stadium Plans Official -- But "Nothing" in Writing Yet

    The city and the Golden State Warriors held a press conference today on Piers 30-32 -- and everybody came. The mayor! The lieutenant governor! The police and fire chiefs! Rose Pak! The starting power forward! A platoon of laborers who moved shrubberies to strategic locations! Everybody! Whether the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Ron Paul Counts Bay Area Tech Companies Among Top Donors

    This week Republican presidential cult favorite Ron Paul will campaign through California, with stops at well-known party school Chico State, as well as UCLA, and Berkeley. While the venues reflect Paul's solid and passionate base among college kids, a closer look at Paul's donor list shows that the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    America's Cup: Everyone Lowers Their Standards

    Barring unforeseen circumstances -- Chris Daly, a rain slicker, and a longshoreman's hook -- the Board of Supervisors today will give its blessing to the pared back America's Cup plan. This supes probably would have approved the Cup's glitzy prior iteration, which would have cost the city up to $136 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    America's Cup: "Decrepit" Piers Could Be Resurrected After All

    ​The classic film On the Waterfront involved plenty of fighting -- with both longshoreman's hooks and bare fists. The battles on San Francisco's own waterfront are far rougher. But, upon reflection, they resemble high-stakes -- and very grown-up -- versions of the Marshmallow Test. Would San Franc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    America's Cup Considering New York City For August Race; NYC Surprised to Hear of It

    ​The America's Cup will grace San Francisco not once, not twice, but thrice, citizens were promised: before  catamarans race for the main Cup currently held by Larry Ellison's Oracle team in 2013, there will be smaller World Series races in October and in August, according to plans the race e ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 7, 2012

    Jack Sparrow Not Included

    ​The America's Cup will grace San Francisco not once, not twice, but thrice, citizens were promised: before  catamarans race for the main Cup currently held by Larry Ellison's Oracle team in 2013, there will be smaller World Series races in October and in August, according to plans the race e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    America's Cup: Rollout of the "We Screwed Up!" Storyline Under Way

    ​The San Francisco Chronicle today continued to thump the tub Supervisor Mark Farrell and others wheeled out last week. It's the "San Francisco and its Board of Supervisors screwed up the America's Cup deal because we're an insufferable, NIMBY city that ruins everything" tub.Well, we are pretty in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    America's Cup: SF Weekly Reporter on the Air

    ​This week, the evolving America's Cup deal underwent a sea change. A proposal to reimburse Larry Ellison's America's Cup Event Authority to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars via long-term leases for waterfront property was abruptly curtailed; now the city and race organizers are wrangli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    America's Cup: Rancor Over Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Easier than Real Analysis

    ​With the pricey former America's Cup deal now residing in the vicinity of Davy Jones' Locker, it's high time for the types of folks who comment frequently on the SFGate webpage to decry San Francisco blowing a "golden opportunity" for some "economic revitalization." Supervisor Mark Farrell -- als ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    America's Cup: What the Hell Just Happened?

    ​In around an hour's time, the Board of Supervisors would have likely approved a sprawling America's Cup development plan that would have committed the city to reimbursing Larry Ellison's Event Authority up to $136 million -- perhaps into the 22nd century. Instead, the city and race organizers yes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    America's Cup Decimated: City May Save More Than $100 Million

    ​The term "decimated" isn't often meant literally -- but, this time, it is. The city and America's Cup Event Authority called a rather hasty press conference today, and announced the scope of construction work surrounding the forthcoming boat race will be massively scaled back.While the deal that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    America's Cup: Showdown Set for Today

    ​Nautical metaphors and strife are on the agenda this afternoon for the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee hearing. The supes will, for a second time, discuss the evolving America's Cup deal. The development agreement for the Cup is due for an up or down vote by the entire board on ... More >>

  • News

    February 15, 2012

    The Cup Runneth Over: S.F.'s America's Cup Decision Looms

    ​Nautical metaphors and strife are on the agenda this afternoon for the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee hearing. The supes will, for a second time, discuss the evolving America's Cup deal. The development agreement for the Cup is due for an up or down vote by the entire board on ... More >>

  • Film

    December 28, 2011

    Year in Film: Ten Films We Can't Wait to Watch in 2012

    ​Nautical metaphors and strife are on the agenda this afternoon for the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee hearing. The supes will, for a second time, discuss the evolving America's Cup deal. The development agreement for the Cup is due for an up or down vote by the entire board on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Catch the First Glimpse of Oracle America's Cup Team Next Week

    ​While we still have two years before the madness of the America's Cup truly descends on San Francisco, you can still get a taste of what we'll be seeing next week. Larry Ellison's ORACLE Racing team will begin practicing out on the Bay, using two 45-foot long wingsail catamarans to cut through th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    America's Cup: Ball Is Now in City Attorney's Court

    The material everyone wants to have...​What are "material changes?" The answer is not immaterial.In tweaking the America's Cup agreement signed off by the Board of Supervisors, the mayor's office was entitled to make changes -- but not material changes.After analyzing the revamped deal, the board' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    America's Cup: Gavin Newsom's Changes to Deal 'Could Be Very Significant'

    What's it going to cost, Gavin?​At a late January America's Cup press conference, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom said something a bit odd regarding the city's dramatically hammered-out deal to host the race: "We made a lot of promises. A lot of them have been reported. Candidly, a lot of them ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Larry Ellison Too Good for His Own Golden Gate Yacht Club

    Not Larry Ellison's style​While the rich like to brag that they lunch at the yacht club, the really, really rich apparently boast that they never go near the place.Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, for one, avoids his own Golden Gate Yacht Club, despite the fact he and his employees spend hundreds of doll ... More >>

  • News

    February 2, 2011

    How Chris Daly saved San Francisco from a bad America's Cup deal

    Not Larry Ellison's style​While the rich like to brag that they lunch at the yacht club, the really, really rich apparently boast that they never go near the place.Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, for one, avoids his own Golden Gate Yacht Club, despite the fact he and his employees spend hundreds of doll ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Ross Mirkarimi Asks Budget Analyst to Make Sure America's Cup Deal isn't Costing Extra

    Making sure the deal is even keeled, to use a nautical term ​Following the approval of the America's Cup deal, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi pledged to follow up with budget reports that would analyze whether the mayor's office has made any tweaks to the deal that would cost taxpayers extra money.&nbs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    San Francisco Landed America's Cup ... And Now We See Why

    Sailing To A Sweeter Deal​The Examiner unravels some details of the "sweet" America's Cup deal that helped San Francisco land the sailing regatta. After much back-and-forth, San Francisco scaled back on its bid, essentially saving city taxpayers scores of millions of dollars. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Chris Daly, Bar Owner at Last

    At Daly's Dive, Everybody knows your f**king name...​Chris Daly may never be a Republican. But he is now a publican. The District 6 supervisor tells SF Weekly his long odyssey to obtain Buck's Tavern is near its end. "It looks like later today, we'll close escrow," he says. "With the timing of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    America's Cup: Mayor May Make Large, Long-Lasting Changes to Deal

    Will Larry Ellison be San Francisco's Santa? Or the Grinch?​While the pulse of San Francisco's chances to land the America's Cup may be sliding toward demise, the offer the city put before Larry Ellison and the cup organizers is very much a living document. The "final agreement" bid unanimously ap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Rainbow at Mission Bay -- Coooooool!

    Joe EskenaziClick for a larger version​Anyone who'd characterize Mission Bay as a soulless scrap of concrete strewn with clumps of medical buildings and condos resembling the structure on the Stolichnaya label -- well, now it's all that with a hell of a rainbow. Those seeking the pot of gold shoul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    America's Cup: Supervisors Unanimously Adopt Hosting Bid

    San Francisco has finalized its bid for the America's Cup. Is it enough to win the battle?​By an 11-0 vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted the so-called "Northern Waterfront Alternative" bid to host the America's Cup -- a deal race officials over the weekend deemed insufficient. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    America's Cup: San Francisco's Chances Are Sinking, Thanks to Chris Daly

    America's Cup Organizers' Surprise Rejection of Latest Terms All About Securing Pier 50 For Waterfront Arena, Supervisor SaysChris Daly's tenacity -- and the fiscal studies he demanded -- may have sunk San Francisco's chances at the America's Cup​"Worse things happen at sea" will come as cold com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    America's Cup: How City Would End Up On the Hook for $55 Million

    ​During a lengthy Wednesday hearing regarding the America's Cup -- which was far less thrilling than a yachting race and had far more nautically themed public comment -- the city's budget analyst made an emphatic point. Based on the "Northern Waterfront Alternative" plan which is currently en vogu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    America's Cup: Newport, Larry Ellison Have Been in Contact

    Hello, Larry! ​During yesterday's committee hearing regarding the hosting of the America's Cup regatta, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi warned his colleagues that former race site Newport, R.I. is clamoring to sail off with San Francisco's prize following any "glitch or defect in our process." This, it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    America's Cup: Regatta Argument Sails Into Next Week

    Onward...​A new plan for hosting the America's Cup was today emphatically blessed by Port of San Francisco officials as the best deal the city could get. Yet the city's Budget Analyst warned that even under these "best" terms, the city could still end up giving away some $55 million to billionaire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    America's Cup: Budget Analyst Says It'll Still Lose City $101 Million

    Vincent Van GoghWill the latest report take the wind out of the city's sails? ​The latest Budget and Legislative Analyst's report analyzing the potential costs and benefits of hosting the America's Cup regatta has finally hit dry land. But, crunching the numbers, the city's numerical mavens still ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Cost-Saving America's Cup Proposal Not Shipshape Yet

    Don't fire up the boats yet...​The new-and-improved groundwork for hosting the America's Cup in San Francisco appears to take much less of a bite of city finances than the fabulously expensive, nonbinding "term sheet" the city approved in October. Fred Brousseau, a principal at the city's Budget A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    America's Cup: No 'Dramatic Swing' in Cost to City in New Report -- It'll Still Cost a Ton

    Still sinking...​Last week, the city's budget analyst released an eye-catching report claiming that San Francisco would lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars should it see fit to host the America's Cup regatta on the terms currently before the city. The mayor's office dropped into a defensiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    America's Cup: Chris Daly Admits Some May Support City's Race Bid Just Because He Doesn't

    Was this trip really necessary? ​Last week, the city's budget analyst released an in-depth report claiming San Francisco would lose up to $143 million if it hosted the America's Cup regatta based on the offer currently on the table. Budget Analyst Harvey Rose stressed to SF Weekly that, despite th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    America's Cup: 'Not One Cent' In Private Funding Guaranteed

    This city knows a bit about being under water...​Budget analyst Harvey Rose today defended a report his office released Thursday, which claimed that hosting the America's Cup regatta would lose San Francisco up to $143 million. "I don't think everybody understands. We say there'll be huge benefits ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Hosting America's Cup Would Lose City Millions, Budget Analyst Reports

    Them boats is expensive​Earlier this week we reported that the city's budget analyst was at work on a report to answer the big question: Can you actually make money hosting the America's Cup? The report is out, and, according to the city's official number-cruncher, the answer is no. A resounding n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Four More Movies About Tech Moguls That We Want to See

    ​Thanks to The Social Network, tech is hot! And sexy -- meow. And whenever anything is hot and sexy, Hollywood mauls it until it's bleeding and dying from liver failure in an El Segundo psych ward. But that's a few years off! Right now tech movies are getting a little of the "ol' treatment," if yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    How to Buy Artisanal Ice Cream

    ​ Johnny O./YelpThe line at Bi-Rite Creamery.​Before you even think about buying artisanal ice cream, consider: Is it a hot, sunny day? Did the company just tweet a new flavor? Did 7x7 just write some more stuff about ice cream? You are fucked! Seriously, you are fucked. But if the air ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Warriors Sold -- But Not to Larry Ellison

    Meet the new boss, Joe Lacob​Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's quest to buy his favorite basketball team has been stuffed. The long-awaited sale of the Golden State Warriors was announced today, for a record $450 million -- but the winning bidder was Joseph Lacob, a part-owner of the Boston C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Reports: Larry Ellison's Purchase of Golden State Warriors Imminent

    Oracle Corporate CommunicationsHave you come to rescue us, Larry Ellison? ​Larry Ellison, the richer-than-Croesus CEO of Oracle and yachting enthusiast, is reportedly in the final stages of purchasing the Golden State Warriors. The move would likely be greeted with glee by fans of the NBA franchis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2008

    Bay Area Billionaires Buy and Sell People Like You Every Day

    Oracle Corporate CommunicationsHave you come to rescue us, Larry Ellison? ​Larry Ellison, the richer-than-Croesus CEO of Oracle and yachting enthusiast, is reportedly in the final stages of purchasing the Golden State Warriors. The move would likely be greeted with glee by fans of the NBA franchis ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 21, 2007

    oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs

    Oracle Corporate CommunicationsHave you come to rescue us, Larry Ellison? ​Larry Ellison, the richer-than-Croesus CEO of Oracle and yachting enthusiast, is reportedly in the final stages of purchasing the Golden State Warriors. The move would likely be greeted with glee by fans of the NBA franchis ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 26, 2007

    Pure De-Light

    Oracle Corporate CommunicationsHave you come to rescue us, Larry Ellison? ​Larry Ellison, the richer-than-Croesus CEO of Oracle and yachting enthusiast, is reportedly in the final stages of purchasing the Golden State Warriors. The move would likely be greeted with glee by fans of the NBA franchis ... More >>

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    I Spy a Scandal

    Silicon Valley stalwart Hewlett-Packard is reeling, under investigation for invading the privacy of journalists and its own board members. Do you see a way out for the computing giant?

  • Culture

    November 2, 2005

    Dirty Business

    There's not much passion -- at least of the sexual variety -- in a corporate takeover

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Inside the NFHell

    Are you a 49ers apologist? Or a football fan?

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from December 6, 2000

  • News

    October 11, 2000

    Pranks for Nothing

    Two sculptors stage a hoax at Oracle's trade show as a statement against the treatment of artists

  • News

    August 30, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Some see a Starck-designed hotel as progress.

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    Letters

    Some see a Starck-designed hotel as progress.

  • Calendar

    November 18, 1998

    Postscript

    Some see a Starck-designed hotel as progress.

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