Oracle ups PeopleSoft offer to US$24 per share
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Oracle announced Monday that it has increased its PeopleSoft takeover bid to US$24 a share, calling the figure its &quot;best and final&quot; offer for its rival.
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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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Just as lawyers are preparing to defend Oracle's hostile bid to acquire PeopleSoft, Oracle reduced its all-cash offer for the company from $26 to $21 per share.
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It has agreed that the company should be sold to Oracle for $26.50 a share, roughly $10.3 billion, $1.5 billion more than Oracle&#39;s now-famous &quot;best and final&quot; offer.
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The chief financial officer of Oracle, Harry L. You, said that $24 a share remained the company's "best and final'' offer for PeopleSoft Inc. in what may be the last week of a 17-month hostile takeover fight.
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PeopleSoft executives said over the weekend that they won't discuss a sale to Oracle at a price of $24 per share but would consider an offer at a higher price.
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Last night, database maker Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) once again extended its $7.7 billion offer for business software provider PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT).
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Oracle Corp. of Redwood Shores again extended its tender offer of $21 a share Thursday for Pleasanton software maker PeopleSoft Inc.
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Defining the word unsurprising, PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors unanimously rejected Oracle&#39;s &quot;best and final&quot; $24 per share offer for the company.
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NEW YORK, October 8  - Oracle Corporation (ORCL.NAS) has extended its $7.7 billion tender offer for PeopleSoft (PSFT) until the midnight of October 22 this year, leaving the terms of its hostile takeover proposal unchanged at $21 per
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Oracle Corp. Friday said 61 percent of PeopleSoft Inc. shares were tendered for its $24-a-share offer, strengthening Oracle&#39;s hostile bid position as it waits to
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Oracle says its latest bid to purchase PeopleSoft is its &quot;best and final offer.&quot; At $24 per share, Oracle&#39;s offer is higher than PeopleSoft&#39;s 24-week high.
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With Oracle&#39;s (ORCL:Nasdaq - news - research) $24-a-share offer for PeopleSoft (PSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) set to expire late Friday night, the database giant has thrown cold water on the notion that the price could go higher.
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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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Oracle Corp. sent yet another letter to PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board of directors on Monday morning, pointing out that a majority of PeopleSoft&#39;s owners are prepared to sell at $24 per share and requesting once
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UPDATED: Oracle (Quote, Chart) has upped its offer for PeopleSoft (Quote, Chart) to $24 per share, in what it called its final bid for the elusive enterprise applications company it has been trying to acquire since June 2003.
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Oracle Corp. has again extended its $7.7 billion cash offer for PeopleSoft Inc. Shareholders now have until Oct. 8 to tender their shares, Oracle said Thursday.