Oracle Raises PeopleSoft Offer
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Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft Inc.
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Oracle has put up its &quot;best and final&quot; offer for PeopleSoft at US$24 per share. The new price is up $3 from Oracle&#39;s last offer, and is in excess of PeopleSoft&#39;s 52-week closing price high.
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Oracle has extended the deadline for PeopleSoft investors to tender their shares in its hostile bid to acquire its business software rival--the 11th extension of the offer since Oracle launched the bid more than 15 months ago.
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Investors welcomed the end of Oracle Corp.'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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US News, NEW YORK - US stocks were set for a higher open on Monday, helped by news business software maker Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) struck a deal to buy rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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ORACLE chief executive Larry Ellison has increased his companyâs offer for rival software company PeopleSoft, and set a deadline for the first time since the hostile takeover bid began in June 2003.
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Shares of PeopleSoft Inc.  traded near a one-year high on Thursday after analysts raised their earnings outlooks for the business software maker, which continues to fight a &#36;9.2 billion hostile takeover bid by Oracle Corp. .
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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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Oracle Corp.  on Thursday said it had again extended its &#36;7.7 billion tender offer for all of the common stock of rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. , though it did not change the terms of its hostile takeover proposal.
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US stocks were set for a higher open on Monday, helped by news business software maker Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) struck a deal to buy rival PeopleSoft
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Oracle late Thursday extended its hostile bid for PeopleSoft for the 13th time, leaving its $7.7 billion offer unchanged at $21 per share.
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Updated: Oracle receives tender offers for more than 60 percent of the outstanding PeopleSoft shares and calls for talks to reach a formal buyout agreement.
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Oracle lifted its purchase offer for PeopleSoft to $24 per share from a previous bid of $21. &quot;This price represents a significant premium to recent trading prices, and is in excess of the 52
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Oracle again extended its tender offer for PeopleSoft to Friday, Sept. 10 at midnight, Eastern Standard Time. Oracle is offering $21 per share or about $7.
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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. , to Sept. 10, as it awaits a U.S. District Court judge's ruling on whether the takeover attempt can move forward.
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Business software maker  Oracle  Corp. ORCL.O said on Thursday it extended again its $7.7  billion hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O, to  Sept. 10, as it awaits a U.S. District Court judge's ruling on  whether the takeover attempt can move forward.
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Software manufacturer Oracle Corp. said Monday that it raised its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. to $24 per share from $21, and said the new price represents the company&#39;s &quot;best and final offer.