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Larry Ellison takes $1 salary, declines bonus, still lands $78 million

America's Cup 2013: Just another day on the water for Oracle's Larry Ellison

FAA will let you use electronic devices during airplane takeoff and landing soon

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September 23, 2013
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Larry Ellison takes $1 salary, declines bonus, still lands $78 million

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who consistently ranks among the highest paid CEOs in the U.S., took an 18% pay cut this year. His total compensation, valued at $78.4 million, is down from $96.2 million in 2012.

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1. America's Cup 2013: Just another day on the water for Oracle's Larry Ellison

2. FAA will let you use electronic devices during airplane takeoff and landing soon

3. Apple blows away expectations with 9 million iPhone sales this weekend

4. Air Force wants technology that will let drones sense and avoid other aircraft

5. Microsoft's Surface Pro 2 announcement in 2 minutes

6. In another blow, Blackberry suspends Messenger rollout for iPhone, Android

7. Gartner: 64% of organizations looking at Big Data projects this year

8. iPhone TouchID fingerprint biometrics broken by German hacker club

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FAA will let you use electronic devices during airplane takeoff and landing soon

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iPhone TouchID fingerprint biometrics broken by German hacker club

The German hacking group Chaos Computer Club says its biometrics hacking team has discovered how to bypass the biometric security of Apple's TouchID fingerprint authentication through a simple method based on a rubbery duplicate of a fingerprint the group devised. READ MORE

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