Oracle raises offer for PeopleSoft 14%
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Oracle yesterday sweetened its hostile bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft to $9.2 billion, a 14 percent increase aimed at resolving the long-running takeover battle between the bitter foes.
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Investor's Business Daily - Oracle   Chief Executive Larry Ellison might well raise his offer of &#36;21 per share to buy business software rival PeopleSoft  , they say.
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Oracle Corp. has again extended its $7.7 billion cash offer for PeopleSoft Inc. Shareholders now have until Oct. 8 to tender their shares, Oracle said Thursday.
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More than 60 percent of PeopleSoft Inc.'s shareholders have tendered their stock in support of Oracle Corp.'s &#36;9.2 billion takeover bid for its bitter rival, further extending a bruising battle that already has dragged on for more than 17 months.
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Larry Ellison&#39;s software maker Oracle yesterday got the green light from a US federal judge for its US$7.7 billion takeover of smaller rival PeopleSoft, sending PeopleSoft shares up 15 per cent.
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Oracle said it had raised its bid for for the bulk of Indian banking software firm iflex Solutions to 1.3 billion dollars in what was its final offer.
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A majority of PeopleSoft'sÂ shareholders gave OracleÂ the green light to continue its hostile bid for control of the company, tendering more than 60 percent of PeopleSoft's outstanding shares into Oracle's $24 per share cash offer by the Friday deadline.
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PeopleSoft&#39;s shares were up 10.6 percent at $22.98 late into Monday&#39;s trading session. Oracle shares rose 10 cents to $12.
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Oracle is to raise its hostile bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft to $8.8 billion, calling this its &#39;best and final&#39; offer.
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- SAN FRANCISCO  - Oracle Corp. Friday said a majority of PeopleSoft Inc. shares have been tendered for its $24-a-share offer, strengthening Oracle&#39;s
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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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The PeopleSoft Board concluded that PeopleSoft is worth much more than the $24 per share price offered by Oracle. They reiterated that they will not sell the company for less than it is worth.
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The business software maker hopes to prod rival Oracle into raising its current bid by $1.5 billion.
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NEW YORK, October 8  - Oracle Corporation (ORCL.NAS) has extended its $7.7 billion tender offer for PeopleSoft (PSFT) until the midnight of October 22 this year, leaving the terms of its hostile takeover proposal unchanged at $21 per
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The investors have spoken and decided that Oracle buying PeopleSoft for $9.2bn in cash sounds like a pretty good deal. More than 60 percent of PeopleSoft investors tendered their shares to Oracle, giving the
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) - Oracle Corp. on Monday raised its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft to $8.8 billion, calling the bid its &quot;best and final offer,&quot; as CEO Larry Ellison raised the stakes in a 17-month takeover
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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.