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Larry Ellison Fined for Not Bothering With the Facts [Badvertising]

Source: Gawker
New York : NY : USA | about 1 month ago  
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We took flack earlier this month for saying Oracle appeared to be, yet again, making wild advertising claims without any evidence . The business software company was just fined over those claims, since —go figure — it had no evidence. Oracle's Wall Street Journal ad (above) said its database ran...
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