Oracle wins Â£5.4bn fight
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PeopleSoft finally gave in yesterday and accepted a $10.3bn (Â£5.4bn) takeover proposal from its larger rival Oracle, ending a pursuit that has lasted 18 months and has been marked by bitter personal insults and a series of courtroom battles.
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European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday cleared Oracle Corp.&#39;s hostile $7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.
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The European commission yesterday approved Oracle Corp&#39;s proposed $7.7bn hostile takeover of rival software company PeopleSoft, clearing the last competition hurdle to the deal.
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Oracle has finally won its prize, the rival BEA Systems, after sweetening the offer by 14 percent, just three months after BEA rejected its original bid.
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Oracle Corp., the world&#39;s second-largest software firm, beat the Street with its first-quarter results after Tuesday&#39;s market close thanks to stronger sales of its database software.
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Oracle Corp. won European Union approval for its hostile $7.7 billion takeover offer for PeopleSoft Inc., removing the last regulatory hurdle to the bid.
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Oracle has made a huge step towards victory in its hostile takeover bid for rival business software company PeopleSoft, as the US federal courts rejected the Department of Justice&#39;s attempt to block the takeover bid.
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Oracle has put up its &quot;best and final&quot; offer for PeopleSoft at US$24 per share. The new price is up $3 from Oracle&#39;s last offer, and is in excess of PeopleSoft&#39;s 52-week closing price high.
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And slaps $1.3bn on Q2 bottom line Database giant Oracle said yesterday that it saw earnings jump by 35 per cent in its second quarter buoyed by strong sales of software licenses.â¦
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Dow Jones shareholders approve the $5bn (Â£2.5bn) takeover by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
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Oracle announces 5,000 job losses - 9% of the workforce - following the completion of its takeover of Peoplesoft.
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LARRY Ellison, the chief executive of software maker Oracle, earned $US3.85 million ($5.53 million) in salary and bonus for the financial year that ended May 31.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O will cut  5,000 jobs as it combines with PeopleSoft Inc., the business  software rival it acquired for $10.3 billion after a bitterly  fought takeover battle, the company said on Friday.
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Business software maker Oracle  Corp.  posted a quarterly profit on Tuesday that topped  Wall Street forecasts as strong sales of new licenses for  applications helped boost revenue, sending its shares up 5  percent.
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European Union antitrust regulators cleared Oracle Corp.&#39;s hostile $7.7 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.
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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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Strong Q2 software sales pushed Oracle's total revenue up 28 percent to $5.3 billion.