Majority of PeopleSoft shareholders accept Oracle bid
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NOVEMBER 20, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A majority of PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s shareholders gave Oracle Corp. the green light to continue its hostile bid for control of the company, tendering more than 60 percent
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The California Employees' Retirement System voted Wednesday to tender its 1.5 million PeopleSoft shares to Oracle, giving the hostile suitor a boost in the final days of its takeover bid.
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Oracle Corp. said on Wednesday it has  taken control of PeopleSoft Inc., now that about 75 percent of  shareholders of the rival software maker have tendered their  shares.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK: Oracle said on Wednesday it has taken control of PeopleSoft, now that about 75% of shareholders of the rival software maker have tendered their shares.
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Oracle Corp. recently learned that PeopleSoft will reject Oracle&#39;s $24.00 a share- its best and final offer. The cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of PeopleSoft, Inc.
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Oracle Corp. won European Union approval for its hostile $7.7 billion takeover offer for PeopleSoft Inc., removing the last regulatory hurdle to the bid.
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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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The European Commission said Tuesday that it has approved Oracle Corp.&#39;s $7.7 billion bid for PeopleSoft Inc., removing the last antitrust obstacle to the hostile takeover attempt.
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PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board of directors said Saturday it will not accept Oracle Corp.&#39;s bid to buy the company for $24 per share, even after 61 percent of the Pleasanton firm&#39;s investors endorsed the offer.
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Oracle (Quote, Chart) has taken majority ownership of PeopleSoft (Quote, Chart) after that company&#39;s stockholders tendered roughly 75 percent of their shares in favor of the $10.3 billion acquisition.
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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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Oracle Corp. Friday said 61 percent of PeopleSoft Inc. shares were tendered for its &#36;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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Peoplesoft agrees a $10.3bn takeover bid from rival business software firm Oracle, after an 18-month corporate battle.
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. Investors continue to bet today that most PeopleSoft shareholders will back Oracle&#39;s nine-point-two (b) billion-dollar takeover bid for its bitter rival.
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Over the weekend, Oracle announced that approximately 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s outstanding shares had been tendered to Oracle in that company&#39;s $9.2 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Thursday  won the backing of a key public pension fund in its  $8.8-billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O and  analysts said they expected a majority of shares to be tendered  its way ahead of a Friday deadline.
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Senior executives at business software group PeopleSoft unanimously recommended that its shareholders reject a 8.8 billion dollar takeover bid from Oracle Corp, PeopleSoft said in a statement Wednesday.