Oracle to drop suit if takeover bid fails
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Oracle Corp. said Monday it will drop a lawsuit it filed in Delaware against PeopleSoft, its rival and takeover target, if a majority of PeopleSoft
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With no other suitors stepping forward, Oracle has threatening to abandon its $6.7 billion bid for BEA Systems unless its smaller rival accepts the offer by Sunday.
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A judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit against Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison and Chairman Jeffrey Henley that accused them of insider trading before the company announced an earnings shortfall in 2001.
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PeopleSoft (PSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) Wednesday publicly rejected Oracle&#39;s (ORCL:Nasdaq - news - research) $24-a-share takeover offer, saying the $8.
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Good news just keeps on coming for Oracle regarding its takeover bid for PeopleSoft. In September, Oracle won an anti-trust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department, only to find out in October that the Justice
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SAN FRANCISCO -- PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors rejected Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion takeover bid yesterday, thrusting the business software maker's fate into the hands of its shareholders.
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An attorney for Oracle Corp. says the company will abandon its legal challenge to PeopleSoft Inc.'s antitakeover protections if shareholders fail to tender a majority of their shares by a Nov. 19 deadline.
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Oracle Corp.'s hostile $7.7 billion bid for rival software maker PeopleSoft Inc. could drop by one-third to one-fourth, Oracle co-president Safra Catz said Monday.
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Oracle Corp. on Thursday said in a letter to PeopleSoft Inc. stockholders that it would withdraw its hostile takeover bid if less than half of PeopleSoft shares were tendered by the offer's deadline.
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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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A proposal to settle a lawsuit brought last year by shareholders of PeopleSoft Inc. failed to clear court Wednesday after a judge found it unfairly cut off their right to sue over the company&#39;s resistance to a takeover by Oracle Corp.
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A PeopleSoft Inc.  board member told a Delaware court on Tuesday that the software maker would consider a bid from its rival Oracle Corp.  provided the price was right and a deal closed quickly.
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By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New York. PeopleSoft succumbed to a sweetened $10.3bn (Â£5.22bn) takeover offer from Oracle yesterday, putting an end to a bitter 18- month battle that
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Although Oracle still faces obstacles in its $7.7 billion hostile takeover bid, analysts said yesterday's court rejection of the U.S. Department of Justice's attempt to block the deal on antitrust grounds is a blow for PeopleSoft.
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WILMINGTON (DELAWARE): An attorney for Oracle says the company will abandon its legal challenge to PeopleSoft&#39;s anti-takeover protection if shareholders fail to tender a majority of their shares by November 19.
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Oracle says it will nix the claim unless PeopleSoft shareholders agree to sell at least half their holdings by on Nov. 19.
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Oracle suffered a legal setback Wednesday when a federal appeals court reviewing a shareholder lawsuit reversed a lower court&#39;s ruling that had found in the company&#39;s favor.