SlashGear for iPad and iPhone  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison buys
huge portion of paradise  If you’ve ever watched the MTV show
Cribs, you may have seen the island Virgin CEO Sir Richard
Branson owns. It’s a sweet island, don’t get me wrong, but
Branson has just been greatly outdone by Oracle CEO Larry
Ellison. Ellison has reportedly purchased most of the Hawaiian
island of Lanai for an undisclosed sum of money.  How much of
the island did Ellison purchase? He now owns 98% to be exact.
The island has 141 square miles of land and is Hawaii’s sixth
largest island by acreage. The former owner was billionaire
David Murdoch, who owned the land since 1985. Apparently,
Murdoch sold the land because he was losing between $18 and $25
million each year on the island. If you’re wondering, the state
of Hawaii owns the other 2% of the island.  I wonder what the
state will do with that other 2%. Knowing how states operate
it’s probably an easement of some sort. While there is no
official word on how much Ellison paid for the ma