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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Ending 18 months of bad blood, Oracle raised its takeover bid for bitter rival PeopleSoft by 10 percent to seal a $10.3 billion deal that will create the world&#39;s second largest maker of business applications software.
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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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At its user conference yesterday, Oracle continued to send out mixed messages about how it will support PeopleSoft products if it succeeds in its $9.2bn (Â£4.8bn) takeover bid for its rival.
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UPDATED: Oracle (Quote, Chart) has upped its offer for PeopleSoft (Quote, Chart) to $24 per share, in what it called its final bid for the elusive enterprise applications company it has been trying to acquire since June 2003.
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PLEASANTON, Calif. PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors said it srejected Oracle Corp.&#39;s nine-point-two (b) billion dollar takeover bid Saturday.
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Shares in PeopleSoft surged in New York after Larry Ellison&#39;s Oracle tabled a take-it-or-leave-it $8.8 offer for the business software company.
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SOFTWARE giant Oracle&#39;s stalled $7.7bn (Â£4.2bn) bid to take over competitor PeopleSoft has received a huge boost after a US judge threw out an anti-trust lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice to block the acquisition.
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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.
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Investor's Business Daily - Oracle   Chief Executive Larry Ellison might well raise his offer of &#36;21 per share to buy business software rival PeopleSoft  , they say.
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TAKEOVER TUG OF WAR: Oracle Corp. ends 18 months of acrimony, boosting its bid for software maker PeopleSoft Inc. by 10 percent to &#36;10.3 billion.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Business software maker Oracle Corp. said on Thursday it extended again its $7.7 billion hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft Inc.
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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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NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA: Oracle Corp yesterday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft Inc by 14 per cent to $US8.
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PeopleSoft Inc. said it&#39;s willing to discuss a bid by Oracle Corp. at the ``right&#39;&#39; price, the first time officials have raised the possibility of ending the companies&#39; 16-month takeover fight.
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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 again extended its tender offer for PeopleSoft to Friday, Sept. 10 at midnight, Eastern Standard Time. Oracle is offering $21 per share or about $7.