Oracle clears US hurdle for PeopleSoft
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Oracle has made a huge step towards victory in its hostile takeover bid for rival business software company PeopleSoft, as the US federal courts rejected the Department of Justice&#39;s attempt to block the takeover bid.
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Business software maker Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said it has taken control of rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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European Union antitrust regulators cleared Oracle Corp.'s hostile &#36;7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. on Tuesday, removing one of the last major hurdles in the contested takeover fight.
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The European Commission has no objection to Oracle&#39;s takeover bid for PeopleSoft. That decision, coming after Oracle&#39;s antitrust victory in the US, means that Oracle faces no more regulatory impediments to its proposed takeover.
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Oracle Corp. early Wednesday declared that it had won control of PeopleSoft Inc. after stockholders tendered about 75 percent of the outstanding shares of the Pleasanton, Calif.
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The European Union has approved Oracle&#39;s takeover of PeopleSoft, marking yet another turn in the bitter 17-month wrangle between the fierce business software rivals.
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Oracle finally clinched its bid to scoop up PeopleSoft on Monday, saying it had agreed to purchase the rival business software group for $26.50 a share or $10.3bn.
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: Oracle Corp said on Wednesday it has taken control of PeopleSoft Inc, now that about 75 per cent of shareholders of the rival software maker have tendered their shares.
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European Union competition authorities are expected Tuesday to clear unconditionally US firm Oracle's hostile takeover of business software rival PeopleSoft, sources say.
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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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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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European Union antitrust regulators cleared Oracle Corp.&#39;s hostile $7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.
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Oracle Corp.  can celebrate a ruling by a U.S. judge that it can take over archrival PeopleSoft Inc. , but analysts say the world's second biggest software maker has a battery of other barriers to overcome before a deal is clinched.
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European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday cleared Oracle Corp.'s hostile &#36;7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc., removing one of the last major hurdles to the contested takeover proposal, a person close to the case said.
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It looks as though the European Commission is getting ready to permit  Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) US&#36;7.7 billion hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT). The ruling, which has been  widely anticipated after a similar consideration in the United States also  paved the way for Oracle's takeover, is expected to be handed down before the  end of October.
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Oracle has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PeopleSoftÂ for $26.50 per share, or approximately $10.3 billion, the companies said Monday, ending an acrimonious takeover battle that has lasted for more than 18 months.
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The European Commission is set to give US software giant Oracle the go-ahead to take over arch-rival PeopleSoft in a $7.7 billion (4.