Peter Voser

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A), Europe's largest oil company, said its first-quarter profit jumped 22% to $6.9 billion . On adjusted basis, Shell earned $6.29 billion, topping the consensus estimate of $5.87 billion. Shell, which last year reversed seven years of falling production, is planning...

Alright, there isn't going to be a CEO Steel Cage Death Match, but if there was going to be such an event, it would be a good idea to make the feature match a bout between two big oil CEOs: BP's (NYSE: BP) Bob Dudley and Exxon Mobil's (NYSE: XOM) Rex Tillerson. We don't want to put words in the...

In Silicon Valley, the interesting spat to watch is Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL). Once gentle rivals who found their way into a profitable partnership, the two seem set for a schoolyard scrap. Well, the tech titans don't have much on Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A) and BP (...