Oracle pulls buyout offer for BEA Systems
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Oracle withdraws its $6.7 billion buyout bid for BEA Systems, after the middleware maker refuses to entertain its $17 a share bid.
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BEA Systems Inc  said on Friday it still cannot accept the $17-per-share takeover bid from Oracle Corp  as it significantly undervalues the business software maker.
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We've already established what you are, now were just working out a price BEA blinked this morning and said it would enter takeover negotiations with Oracle, and anyone else thatâs interested, at a floor of $21 per share.â¦
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Oracle rejected as âimpossibly highâ BEAâs offer to be acquired for about $8.2 billion, just two weeks after BEA refused Oracleâs $6.7 billion offer for the company.
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Oracle Corp  President Charles Phillips said on Thursday that his company would not raise its $17 per share bid for BEA Systems Inc , which expires on Sunday.
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3Com said Wednesday that it has withdrawn a $2.2 billion offer for the network equipment maker from consideration by a federal national security regulator, marking the potential demise of yet another private equity deal. It crystallizes months of fears and skepticism by investors that the buyout, by Bain Capital and China's Huawei Technologies, would fail because [...].
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Wednesday it agreed to buy BEA Systems Inc. for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the software company.
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Just three months after BEA handily rejected its original unsolicited bid, Oracle said it would acquire BEA Systems for $8.5 billion.
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Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn on Friday called for the sale of BEA Systems Inc., a business software maker whose stock price has sagged with the growth in open-source software and under pressure from larger competitors such as IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp.
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Oracle has set a deadline for Sunday on its bid to buy BEA, which has officially rejected its $6.7 billion offer.
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Oracle rejected BEA Systems' proposed purchase price of $21 per share, calling it "impossibly high" for Oracle or any other company.
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BEA Systems Inc  shares fell 6.5 percent on Friday to trade below Oracle Corp's  bid for the first time since it was made, as the deadline for the offer loomed with no signs of an agreement.
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Oracle Corp , the world's third-largest software maker, won a three-month-long campaign to buy BEA Systems Inc  by raising its bid for the company by 14 percent to $8.5 billion.
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Oracle's offer of $17 per share? No thanks, BEA says again--and this time, it's countering with what it sees as a better value for its shareholders.
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BEA Systems Inc  shares fell 4  percent on Tuesday on concerns a $6.7 billion takeover bid by  Oracle Corp  will fall through after both sides refused  to budge from their positions.
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Oracle has rejected&#160;BEA Systems&#39; proposed purchase price of $21 per share, calling it &quot;impossibly high&quot; for Oracle or any other company to pay.
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BEA Systems has told Oracle the two companies can still make a deal -- just not the one on the table.