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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks Google, Apple and the NSA
Larry Ellison is America's third richest man. His company, Oracle, makes a widely-used database that handles everything from online banking to airline reservation systems...
Two utterly exceptional people chatting about Google, Apple and the NSA.
“Larry Page runs Google. He isn’t evil. But, he did something evil.“
"...We're all told no one's irreplaceable. I don't believe that. Steve Jobs is irreplaceable”
Regarding surveillance: “Who has ever heard of this information being misused?"
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