PeopleSoft shareholders close ranks over Oracle bid
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A battle between rival shareholder groups is brewing in advance of Friday&#39;s final deadline for tendering shares to Oracle in support of its $9bn hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.
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Competitors say they are winning contracts over PeopleSoft because of concern about company's future.
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WILMINGTON, Del.  - The trial pitting software  giant Oracle Corp. against unwilling takeover target PeopleSoft  Inc. drew near a close on Friday as the last witness in the  case, a PeopleSoft board member, took the stand.
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Investors welcomed the end of Oracle Corp.&#39;s 18-month battle to take over PeopleSoft Inc., pushing stocks higher Monday. A better-than-expected survey of retail sales also helped the markets.
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Oracle Corp., the world&#39;s second-largest software firm, made what it called its last and best offer for rival PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday in a takeover battle that has now raged for almost a year and a half.
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Software giant Oracle Corp. said Wednesday that stockholders of rival PeopleSoft Inc. have tendered about 75 percent of the company's outstanding shares, granting Oracle control of the company.
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PeopleSoft Inc. capitulated to Oracle Corp., accepting a sweetened $10.3 billion takeover offer to end an 18-month battle that pitted PeopleSoft against its investors and led to the ouster of its chief executive.
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Oracle Corp. Friday said 61  percent of PeopleSoft Inc. shares were tendered for its  $24-a-share offer, strengthening Oracle's hostile bid position  as it waits to see if PeopleSoft's board will remove the final  barrier to a deal.
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The long-running battle for control of business software company PeopleSoft looks to have finally been concluded in rival Oracle&#39;s favour.
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WILMINGTON, Del.  - The trial pitting software  giant Oracle Corp. ORCL.O against unwilling takeover target  PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O ended on Friday with a Delaware  judge's comment that recent developments seemed to have drawn  the bitter rivals closer together.
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PeopleSoft shareholders have until midnight tonight to decide whether to tender their stock in support of Oracle&#39;s $24-per-share offer for the business software concern.
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To hear Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) tell it, PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) users, as well as its stockholders, are becoming more comfortable with -- or at least resigned to -- the idea of Oracle's proposed acquisition of the enterprise software company.
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PeopleSoft Inc. Chief Executive David Duffield resisted pressure to open talks with Oracle Corp. after shareholders voted to support Oracle&#39;s $8.8 billion takeover bid.
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Two of PeopleSoft&#39;s (PSFT) largest shareholders indicated Tuesday that they would split on supporting Oracle&#39;s (ORCL) $8.8 billion takeover bid for its business software rival, plunging the deal into uncertainty.
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The battle for PeopleSoft intensified on Tuesday, with the company&#39;s two top shareholders said to be taking opposite sides in the software maker&#39;s struggle against an $8.8 billion hostile bid by its bigger rival Oracle.
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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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PeopleSoft's board of directors rejected Oracle's &#36;9.2 billion takeover bid Wednesday, thrusting the business software maker's fate in the hands of its shareholders.