Cloud computing
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| 2025 | Oracle plans to reduce its carbon emissions by 26% compared to the 2015 base year. |
| January 2025 | President Donald Trump announced Stargate, a joint venture by Oracle, OpenAI, SoftBank, and MGX to invest $500 billion over four years in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US. |
| 2024 | GitHub reported over five billion developer contributions to more than 500 million open source projects. |
| 2024 | Continued growth with revenue increasing to $52,961 million and net income of $10,467 million, with workforce at 159,000 employees. |
| September 2024 | Oracle announced significant investments in Cerner's core clinical operations, including tens of thousands of engineering hours and millions of dollars, and released the Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant, a generative AI system for creating consultation documentation and proposing medical orders. |
| July 2024 | Oracle settled the class action lawsuit by paying $115 million to customers and agreeing to cease user tracking practices. |
| June 2024 | Announced a $1 billion investment in Spain to enhance artificial intelligence and cloud computing, creating a new cloud region in Madrid in partnership with Telefónica. |
| April 2024 | Announced plans to move world headquarters from Austin to a new complex in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| March 2024 | South Africa's Special Investigating Unit discovered conflicts of interest, irregular processes, and non-compliance in Oracle's contract, and announced plans to petition for blacklisting Oracle, cancelling the contract, and recovering paid funds. |
| March 20 2024 | Company switched the open-source Redis project to a source-available license model, going back on previous promises of maintaining a 3-clause BSD license. |
| March 8 2024 | Biden announced he would sign a bipartisan bill banning TikTok in the United States if ByteDance does not divest from the company. |
| 2023 | Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, further expanding its gaming business. |
| 2023 | Parts of Twitter's source code were leaked and uploaded to GitHub, first reported by the New York Times. Twitter filed a legal action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming copyright infringement and seeking to identify the GitHub user 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast' who posted the leaked source code. |
| 2023 | Oracle ranked 80th in the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies. |
| 2023 | Oracle was contracted by the Heritage Foundation to create a database of potential conservative employees for staffing a Republican administration through Project 2025, aimed at preparing for a potential Republican presidency in 2025. |
| 2023 | Significant growth with revenue reaching $49,954 million, employee count expanding to 164,000, and stock price rising to $104.69. |
| February 2023 | Announced a $1.5 billion investment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including opening a data centre in Riyadh. |
| February 27 2023 | Biden changed his stance on TikTok, echoing Trump's 2020 concerns by ordering federal agencies to remove TikTok from all federal devices within thirty days, with federal contractors required to do the same within ninety days. |
| 2022 | Microsoft established the Microsoft Gaming division, becoming the third-largest gaming company in the world by revenue. |
| 2022 | Umang Gupta, former vice president and general manager, passes away. |
| 2022 | Company workforce increased to 143,000 employees, with revenue growing to $42,440 million. |
| 2022 | Oracle was awarded a $9 billion cloud computing contract from the United States Department of Defense, shared with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. |
| September 2022 | Oracle settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by agreeing to pay $23 million to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations involving its subsidiaries in India, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. |
| August 2022 | A class action lawsuit was filed against Oracle by Lieff Cabraser, alleging deliberate surveillance of users by tracking personal information without consent. |
| July 2022 | Oracle completed the Cerner acquisition after receiving final approval from European regulators, officially bringing Cerner into Oracle Health and Oracle Life Sciences. |
| July 2022 | Discussions between Oracle and Joe Gibbs Racing for a potential sponsorship were reported to have fallen through. |
| June 8 2022 | Completed the acquisition of Cerner for US$28.3 billion in cash. |
| January 18 2022 | Microsoft announced acquisition of Activision Blizzard in an all-cash deal worth $68.7 billion, with the deal closing on October 13, 2023. |
| 2021 | Plex Systems was acquired by Rockwell Automation for $2.2 billion, marking a significant milestone in the company's corporate history. |
| 2021 | Oracle achieved a peak net income of $13,746 million, with stock price reaching $83.85 and employee count at 132,000. |
| 2021 | Oracle began sponsoring the Red Bull Racing Formula One team. |
| December 20 2021 | Oracle announced an agreement to acquire Cerner Corporation for approximately $28.3 billion, creating a dedicated Industry Business Unit within the company and marking Oracle's largest acquisition. |
| December 13 2021 | Kronos announced a ransomware attack on December 11 that disabled the Kronos Private Cloud software functionality for several weeks, forcing customers to use alternative payment methods. |
| November 2021 | Workday acquired VNDLY, a contractor and external staffing vendor management company located in Ohio, USA. |
| November 3 2021 | Nat Friedman resigned as GitHub's leader, being replaced by Thomas Dohmke. |
| August 11 2021 | Company changed its name from Redis Labs to Redis, having acquired the intellectual property and trademark rights to Redis from Sanfilippo in 2018. |
| June 24 2021 | Microsoft announced Windows 11 during a livestream, contrary to previous statements about Windows 10 being the last version. |
| April 2021 | Raised $110 million in Series G round, led by Tiger Global with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing total funding to $347 million. |
| February 10 2021 | The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration would back off from banning TikTok and shelve the sale indefinitely, with the U.S. Commerce Department reviewing Trump's claims about the platform. |
| January 2021 | Following the investigation, GitHub reached out to the fired employee and the company's head of human resources resigned. |
| January 2021 | GitHub fired an employee who expressed concerns about colleagues following the January 6 United States Capitol attack, labeling some rioters as 'Nazis'. |
| 2020 | Oracle became the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. |
| December 2020 | Announced the relocation of world headquarters from Redwood Shores to Austin, Texas. |
| December 31 2020 | Oracle reported total carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions at 428 kilotonnes, which represented a 17% increase from the previous year. |
| November 2020 | GitHub Enterprise Server's source code was leaked online, reportedly due to an internal mishap where GitHub accidentally shared the code with Enterprise customers, which was framed as a protest against a DMCA takedown of youtube-dl. |
| September 21 2020 | Microsoft announced intent to acquire ZeniMax Media (Bethesda Softworks' parent company) for about $7.5 billion. |
| September 19 2020 | The Trump administration approved the sale of TikTok's US operations to Oracle, delaying restrictions that were originally set to take effect on September 20. |
| September 15 2020 | As a result of a U.S. presidential executive order, Oracle entered into a trade deal with TikTok, becoming its potential technology partner and assuming responsibility for U.S. user data. |
| September 13 2020 | Bloomberg News reported that Oracle won a bidding war to take over TikTok's U.S. operations following pressure from the Trump administration to potentially shut down the social media platform. |
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