Oracle Raises PeopleSoft Offer
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Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft Inc.
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Oracle sweetened its hostile bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft to $9.2 billion, a 14% increase aimed at resolving the long-running takeover battle between the bitter foes.
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In the ongoing takeover drama, Oracle Corporation announced today that it is improving its tender offer for all the common stock of PeopleSoft, Inc.
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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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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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Oracle has sent an open letter to PeopleSoft stockholders, urging them to accept its $24-er-share bid to buy the company. Oracle charges that PeopleSoft&#39;s board has denied shareholders the
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Software stocks rose on Friday on  speculation there may be more mergers in the industry after a  U.S. judge allowed Oracle Corp. to proceed with its takeover of  rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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LARRY ELLISON, the chief executive of Oracle, has raised his offer to buy PeopleSoft by more than $1 billion, marking what could be the final salvo in a 17-month bidding war.
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About $10.3 billion, not to put too fine a point on it. Rather than swallowing the &quot;poison pill&quot; planned for hostile takeover bids, though, Oracle agreed to come up in its bid for PeopleSoft--$26.50 per share instead of $24 per share.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Thursday  said it had again extended its $7.7 billion tender offer for  all of the common stock of rival business software maker  PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O though it did not change the terms of  its hostile takeover proposal.
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Oracle has put up its &quot;best and final&quot; offer for PeopleSoft at US$24 per share. The new price is up $3 from Oracle&#39;s last offer, and is in excess of PeopleSoft&#39;s 52-week closing price high.
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Oracle Corp. of Redwood Shores again extended its tender offer of $21 a share Thursday for Pleasanton software maker PeopleSoft Inc.
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Oracle Corp. has again extended its $7.7 billion cash offer for PeopleSoft Inc. by two weeks. Shareholders now have until Oct. 22 to tender their shares, Oracle said Thursday.
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Oracle said that it had extended its hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft to Sept. 10, as it awaits a ruling on whether the takeover attempt can proceed.
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Oracle has again extended its $7.7 billion cash offer for PeopleSoft by two weeks. Shareholders now have until Oct. 22 to tender their shares, Oracle said Thursday.
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (Dow Jones/AP) -- Oracle Corp. extended its hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. for the 12th time, pushing the tender offer through Oct. 8. In a press release Thursday, Oracle said about
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Oracle said late Tuesday that it has extended its tender offer for PeopleSoft's outstanding shares by two days, after narrowly missing the volume of shares it requires to bring the merger to a speedy close.