Oracle Makes &#39;Final&#39; PeopleSoft Offer
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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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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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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&#39;s initial tender offer for outstanding PeopleSoft shares has closed, with Oracle accepting 298,834,574 million shares constituting 75% of all PeopleSoft shares.
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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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An end to the takeover squabble between Oracle and PeopleSoft may not be in sight even though, in what it called a &quot;best and final&quot; offer, Oracle upped its unsolicited bid by 14 percent, to $24 per share.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Ending 18 months of hostility, Oracle Corp. has raised its takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. by 10 per cent to seal a $10.3-billion US deal that will create the world&#39;s second-largest maker of business applications software.
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That was the message sent by Oracle Corp. on Monday as the company made a &quot;best and final&quot; offer to take over PeopleSoft Inc.
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UPDATE: Oracle&#39;s (Quote, Chart) dogged pursuit of PeopleSoft (Quote, Chart) was rewarded on Monday as PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors agreed to sell the company for $10.3 billion.
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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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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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The European Commission approved US software company Oracle&#39;s 7.7 billion-dollar takeover bid for its American rival in the business software market Peoplesoft on Tuesday.
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Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) presented its &quot;best and final offer&quot; for takeover prey PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) Monday.
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After 18 months of conflict, a friendly merger deal has been struck between Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc. after the former raised its &quot;final&quot; offer by 10 per cent.
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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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Silicon Valley&#39;s longest and most bitter hostile takeover battle is finally at an end after Oracle announced PeopleSoft, its rival business software maker, had accepted an improved purchase offer of $10.3 billion.
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Oracle announced Monday that it has increased its PeopleSoft takeover bid to US$24 a share, calling the figure its &quot;best and final&quot; offer for its rival.