Oracle to PeopleSoft: Rescind Poison Pill
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Oracle Corp. on Monday said it asked Peoplesoft Inc.&#39;s board of directors to immediately rescind a &quot;poison pill&quot; anti-takeover provision, two days after 61 percent of PeopleSoft shareholders
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PLEASANTON, California - PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board yesterday rejected Oracle Corp.&#39;s $9.2 billion takeover bid, continuing its resistance after the company&#39;s own shareholders tendered more than 60 percent of their stock to Oracle.
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European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday cleared Oracle Corp.'s hostile &#36;7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc., removing one of the last major hurdles to the contested takeover proposal, a person close to the case said.
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The PeopleSoft board has rejected Larry Ellison &quot;best and final&quot; $8.8 billion hostile takeover offer, leaving the Oracle chief executive with no choice but to appeal directly to PeopleSoft shareholders.
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Business software maker PeopleSoft  Inc. has accepted a sweetened $10.3 billion acquisition offer  from rival Oracle Corp., ending a bitter, 18-month hostile  takeover battle, the companies said on Monday.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2004  - Embattled ERP software vendor PeopleSoft Inc. last week refused to capitulate in its long-running battle with potential purchaser Oracle Corp.
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PeopleSoft Inc. capitulated to Oracle Corp., accepting a sweetened $10.3 billion offer to end an 18- month battle that pitted PeopleSoft against its shareholders and led to the ouster of its chief executive.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors rejected Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion takeover bid yesterday, thrusting the business software maker's fate into the hands of its shareholders.
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Oracle dislikes what PeopleSoft is doing, but it's still buying.
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The board of software vendor PeopleSoft has advised shareholders to reject Oracle&#39;s takeover bid for a fifth time, pushing the long-running saga closer towards a proxy battle next Spring.
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PeopleSoft Inc., the business software-maker, unexpectedly fired Craig Conway, its chief executive, dumping the feisty leader who engineered the company&#39;s dogged resistance to Oracle Corp.
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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Tuesday denied an analyst report that its executives recently met with Oracle Corp. , the rival software vendor that last year launched a hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
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Oracle's dangerous liaison with PeopleSoft mixes flirtation with rejection.
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Oracle Corp. on Monday again  asked PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors to rescind an  anti-takeover provision, as the two business software makers  prepared to return to court this week to address one of the  final barriers to the $9.2-billion takeover bid.
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Oracle will try to prove that PeopleSoft's directors acted irresponsibly in rejecting Oracle's $7.7 billion tender offer.
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By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New York. PeopleSoft succumbed to a sweetened $10.3bn (Â£5.22bn) takeover offer from Oracle yesterday, putting an end to a bitter 18- month battle that
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European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday cleared Oracle Corp.'s hostile $7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc., removing one of the last major hurdles to the contested takeover proposal.