Billionaire Larry Ellison’s backing of Stargate could help grease the wheels for the embattled merger between Paramount ...

Larry Ellison, the 80-year-old cofounder of Oracle, is one of the most interesting men in tech. Whether yacht racing, buying Hawaiian islands, or trash-talking competitors, he keeps it lively.

It’s been a decade since Larry Ellison stepped down from his CEO post at Oracle and almost half a century since he cofounded the software giant. But the 80-year-old billionaire still looms large ...