Oracle boosts hostile bid for PeopleSoft to $8.8bn
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Oracle raised its hostile bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft by 14 percent yesterday, aiming to bring a resolution to the long-running takeover battle between the foes.
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Oracle Corp.&#39;s $24-a-share hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. heated up anew yesterday as tonight&#39;s deadline for stockholders to offer their shares for sale approached.
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Oracle yesterday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft by 14%, to $8.8bn (Â£4.37bn), and for the first time set a deadline for acceptance of the bid.
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Oracle's $7.7 billion takeover offer for PeopleSoft has been extended several times already and was set to expire today.
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Oracle has won backing from slightly more than 60% of PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders in its $9.2 billion hostile takeover. Friday evening, the software maker announced that 228.7 million out of the roughly 376
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Silicon Valley&#39;s longest and most bitter hostile takeover battle is finally at an end after Oracle announced PeopleSoft, its rival business software maker, had accepted an improved purchase offer of $10.3 billion.
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Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said it would report preliminary results of its $8.8 billion hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft (PSFT.
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Business software group Oracle Corp. said it had extended a hostile takeover offer for PeopleSoft by two weeks to November 5.
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Oracle has dangled its &quot;best and final&quot; offer of $24 per share in front of PeopleSoft shareholders. Oracle&#39;s latest bid for the software maker is a $3 hike over a previous offer and values PeopleSoft at just less than $9bn.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Friday  won the backing of two more key public pension funds in its  $8.8-billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O as the  17-month takeover battle between the two California-based  business software makers neared a key deadline.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Friday  won the backing of another key public pension fund in its  $8.8-billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O as the  17-month takeover battle between the two California-based  business software makers neared a key deadline.
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The success of Oracle Corp&#39;s (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) $8.8 billion hostile takeover bid for rival software maker PeopleSoft Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Ending 18 months of hostility, Oracle Corp. has raised its takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. by 10 per cent to seal a $10.3-billion US deal that will create the world&#39;s second-largest maker of business applications software.
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PeopleSoftÂs top shareholder, Capital Guardian Trust, has decided to support OracleÂs $8.8 billion hostile takeover, but the No. 2 holder, Private Capital Management, has decided against it.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Business software maker Oracle Corp. said on Thursday it extended again its $7.7 billion hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft Inc.
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Oracle Corp. has extended its $7.7 billion hostile takeover bid for Pleasanton&#39;s PeopleSoft Inc. until Sept. 10. Redwood City-based Oracle&#39;s previous offer would have expired at 9 pm Friday.
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Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison raised his company&#39;s offer for rival PeopleSoft Inc. to $24 a share, or $9.2 billion, calling the fifth bid over a 17-month takeover battle the &quot;best and final&quot; offer.