Stifel analyst Brad Reback noted that Oracle (ORCL) reported Q4 revenue and EPS that beat guidance along with its highest operating margin in five years, but he is still cautious given decelerating growth in the apps business, his view that Oracle continues to lose share in the database market and what he sees as a weak position in Infrastructure-as-a-Service. In a post-earnings research noted titled "Outside of valuation...Not much to be excited about," Reback noted that negatives in the company's Q4 report included decelerating share repurchases, a decreased net cash position and increasing FY20 capital expenditures that will weigh on free cash flow. The analyst, who also said that Microsoft's (MSFT) server-products and cloud-services are growing about eight times faster than Oracle's infrastructure business, keeps a Hold rating and $48 price target on Oracle shares.

Amazon (AMZN) has renewed its latest hit Prime Video series "Fallout" for a second season, Variety's Joe Otterson reports. The news comes after Variety previously reported that a second season was slated to receive $25M in tax credits by shooting in the state of California. The "Fallout" franchise is published by Bethesda, which Microsoft (MSFT) acquired in 2021. Reference Link

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Sales of video games in Bethesda's "Fallout" series have surged across Europe, with 2015's "Fallout 4" reclaiming the top spot, Gamesindustry.biz's Christopher Dring reports. Sales of "Fallout 4" jumped 7,500% week-on-week across Europe, due to some heavy discounting on games in the "Fallout" franchise across all platforms designed to tie-in with Amazon Prime's (AMZN) "Fallout" television series, Dring says, citing GSD data. 2018's "Fallout 76," 2010's "Fallout: New Vegas," and 2008's "Fallout 3" rounded out Europe's weekly top ten as well, Dring says. The Fly notes that Microsoft (MSFT) acquired Bethesda in 2021. Reference Link

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Microsoft's Activision is dropping team entry fees for its professional Call of Duty League, and will return prior collected fees, as the esports industry faces profit challenges, Bloomberg's Cecilia D'Anastasio reports. A lawsuit this year from a former owner identified the fees as $27.5M per franchise. Activision is also offering the teams two-year minimum revenue guarantees, according to the report. Reference Link

Oracle Corporation Japan "announced that it plans to invest more than $8B over the next 10 years to meet the growing demand for cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Japan. The investment will grow Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's footprint across Japan. In addition, to help customers and partners address the digital sovereignty requirements in Japan, Oracle will significantly expand its operations and support engineering teams with Japan-based personnel. Oracle plans to increase local customer support of its public cloud regions in Tokyo and Osaka and its local operations teams for Oracle Alloy and OCI Dedicated Region. This will enable governments and businesses across Japan to continue to move their mission-critical workloads to the Oracle Cloud and embrace sovereign AI solutions."

Microsoft's (MSFT) Rare said that its 2018 video game "Sea of Thieves," has achieved 40M players across Xbox, Windows 10 and Steam so far. The Fly notes that the game is set to release on PlayStation 5 (SONY) on April 30. Reference Link

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