PeopleSoftâs board rebuffs Oracleâs âbest and finalâ bid
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PeopleSoftâs board unanimously rejected Wednesday Oracleâs âbest and final bidâ of $24 a share claiming that the $8.8-billion hostile tender offer undervalued the company.
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PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors is refusing yet again to entertain Oracle&#39;s all-cash tender offer, according to a news release issued by Oracle on Wednesday afternoon.
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PeopleSoft is worth substantially more than $24 a share, according to its own board of directors. So saying, the board rejected Oracle&#39;s latest offer to purchase the enterprise software company.
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PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors said it rejected Oracle Corp.'s &#36;9.2 billion takeover bid Saturday, continuing its staunch resistance a day after the company's own shareholders tendered more than 60 percent of stock to Oracle.
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Soon after an Oracle director said Oracle&#39;s current US$21 per share offer for control of PeopleSoft may not be its final bid, Oracle Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Larry Ellison countered that the company is as likely to lower its bid as to raise it.
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Oracle Corp. on Monday said it  asked Peoplesoft Inc.'s board of directors to rescind an  anti-takeover provision, two days after a majority of  PeopleSoft shareholders tendered their stock in favor of  Oracle's $9.2 billion hostile offer.
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BEA Systems reiterated on Friday that it would not accept&#160;Oracle&#39;s $17 per share acquisition bid, and also said it would allow&#160;a deadline Oracle had set for Sunday 5 p.m. PDT&#160;to expire.
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The board expresses a loss of confidence, but denies the firing is linked with Oracle's takeover bid.
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Oracle Corp. on Monday said it asked Peoplesoft Inc.'s board of directors to immediately rescind a "poison pill" anti-takeover provision, two days after 61 percent of PeopleSoft shareholders tendered their stock in favor of Oracle's &#36;24-a-share hostile offer.
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PEOPLESOFT IS considering a bid from its rival Oracle now that its CEO, who opposed the deal, is out of the way. Peoplesoft director Steven Goldby told a Delaware court on Tuesday that the software maker would
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PeopleSoft&#39;s board ousted Craig Conway as CEO after he made a misleading statement about the company&#39;s ability to recruit customers while fending off Oracle&#39;s $7.
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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&#160;on Tuesday morning said that BEA Systems has officially rejected its&#160;offer to acquire the company. BEA had previously said the&#160;offer was too low.&quot;Last night we were told by Bill Klein, Vice President -- Business Planning and Development (speaking on behalf of the board), that BEA&#39;s board again rejected our proposed price of $17 per share in cash,&quot; Oracle said in a statement, adding that the BEA board &quot;has refused to meet with us since we made our October 9th proposal.&quot;Oracle set a deadline for Sunday at 5 p.m. local time on its $17 per share bid.&quot;Oracle has no interest in a long, drawn-out process to acquire BEA,&quot; Oracle said.The total value of the bid is about $6.7 billion.(More to follow.)
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Pleasanton based Peoplesoft says its board remains convinced that Oracleâs $24 a share bid is inadequate and the board says it will not sell the company for less than itâs worth.
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Senior executives at business software group PeopleSoft have once again spurned a takeover bid from Oracle Corp, even after the latter announced it had control of more than 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s shares.
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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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InfoWorld - PeopleSoft's Board of Directors voted Wednesday to recommend that its stockholders reject Oracle's takeover offer of &#36;24 per share. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison quickly responded, saying the offer is final and that it is now up to PeopleSoft's shareholders to make a determination.