Oracle Raises PeopleSoft Offer To $9.2 Billion
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Oracle&#39;s efforts to acquire the application vendor may be moving into its final phase as it calls its $24-per-share bid its &quot;final offer.
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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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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oracle is increasing the stakes in its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft. Oracle has increased its cash offer for PeopleSoft shares from 21 dollars a share to 24 dollars a share.
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NEW YORK - Oracle announced early Saturday morning that more than 60% of PeopleSoft investors had tendered their shares to the company, letting Oracle continue its fight in the takeover battle for PeopleSoft, a battle that has lasted 17 months to date.
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NetSuite Inc, a software maker  majority-owned by Oracle Corp  Chief Executive Larry  Ellison, on Tuesday raised the estimated price range for its  initial public offering to $16 to $19 per share and said it is  conducting the IPO as a modified Dutch auction.
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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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PeopleSoft agreed today to be bought by Oracle for $10.3 billion, or $26.50 a share, ending a bitter 18-month acquisition battle. PeopleSoft&#39;s price was 10 percent above what Oracle previously called its &quot;best and final&quot; offer of $24 a share.
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OCTOBER 08, 2004 (REUTERS) - Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison said today that his company has talked about revising its current $21-per-share offer to buy rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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Business software maker PeopleSoft  Inc. has accepted a sweetened $10.3 billion acquisition offer  from rival Oracle Corp., ending a bitter, 18-month hostile  takeover battle, the companies said on Monday.
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Oracle Corp.  on Monday said rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.'s  board has accepted a sweetened purchase offer of about &#36;10.3 billion, ending a long and bitter hostile takeover battle.
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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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BOLSTERED by investors, Oracle appears set to complete its long-sought takeover of PeopleSoft, unless its rival proves it is worth more than the $US9.2 billion ($11.7 billion) bid currently on the table.
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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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NetSuite Inc, a software maker majority-owned by Oracle Corp  Chief Executive Larry Ellison, on Tuesday raised the estimated price range for its initial public offering to $16 to $19 per share and said it is conducting the IPO as a modified Dutch auction.
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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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Business-software maker PeopleSoft Inc.  on Saturday said its board has again unanimously rejected Oracle Corp.'s  &#36;9.2 billion tender offer, even after 61 percent of PeopleSoft shares had been tendered to Oracle.
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Oracle Corp. Friday said 61  percent of PeopleSoft Inc. shares were tendered for its  $24-a-share offer, strengthening Oracle's hostile bid position  as it waits to see if PeopleSoft's board will remove the final  barrier to a deal.