Concern over the disclosure of trade secrets cropped up again in the pretrial phase of the United States' antitrust case against Oracle, with a federal judge sternly rebuking a Department of Justice ...

A federal judge handed Oracle a key victory Thursday, ruling that the company's potential acquisition of software rival PeopleSoft would pose no threat to competition in the corporate software market.

As Oracle Corp. prepares to beat back the Justice Department's efforts to block its hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc., the company is pointing to another merger that the government tried to stop -- and ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Oracle attorneys made a forceful effort to blast holes in the government's case to block its $7.7 billion bid to buy PeopleSoft, in the opening arguments of a federal antitrust trial ...