Oracle wants to buy PeopleSoft cheaper
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ORACLE IS considering dropping its hostile $7.7 billion bid for rival software maker PeopleSoft by one-third to one-fourth. Oracle co-president Safra Catz said that having seen PeopleSoft&#39;s 2004 performance
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A PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O board  member told a Delaware court on Tuesday that the software maker  would consider a bid from its rival Oracle Corp. ORCL.O  provided the price was right and a deal closed quickly.
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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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After much speculation that it would raise its bid yet again, Oracle Corp. Monday morning announced its latest offer for PeopleSoft Inc.
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PeopleSoft agreed today to be bought by Oracle for $10.3 billion, or $26.50 a share, ending a bitter 18-month acquisition battle. PeopleSoft&#39;s price was 10 percent above what Oracle previously called its &quot;best and final&quot; offer of $24 a share.
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It&#39;s an early Christmas for Oracle Corp.âand PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders. The two companies announced early Monday morning a definitive merger agreement whereby Oracle will acquire PeopleSoft for $26.50 per share, or $10.3 billion.
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Oracle raised its hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft today to $24 a share from $21 a share. The higher bid, which values Peoplesoft at $9.
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Oracle Corp.  Chief Executive Larry Ellison said on Friday his company has talked about revising its current &#36;21-per-share offer to buy rival PeopleSoft Inc. , although it has focused more on lowering the bid instead of raising it.
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Oracle Corp. announced this morning that it has signed a deal to buy PeopleSoft Inc. for $10.3 billion, capping a bitter 18-month battle between the two software giants.
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Oracle yesterday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft by 14%, to $8.8bn (Â£4.37bn), and for the first time set a deadline for acceptance of the bid.
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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, which is in the midst of a hostile takeover attempt of rival PeopleSoft, on Monday raised its offer for the smaller software company by $3 per share to $24 per share.
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The board of PeopleSoft Inc. Wednesday rejected Oracle Corp.'s $24-a-share hostile takeover bid as too cheap, but said it was open to a deal at a higher price. -The Washington Post
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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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Oracle has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for $26.50 (Â£13.79) per share, or about $10.3bn. The transaction has been approved by both companies&#39; boards of directors and is expected to close by early January.
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&quot;We believe that Oracle has nominated this slate to allow Oracle to purchase PeopleSoft for an inadequate price that does not reflect the Company&#39;s real value,&quot; PeopleSoft said in a statement.
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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.