New $8.8B tender offer requires removal of poison pill
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) - Oracle Corp. on Monday raised its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft to $8.8 billion, calling the bid its &quot;best and final offer,&quot; as CEO Larry Ellison raised the stakes in a 17-month takeover
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Gold Fields has made a secret offer to buy out its largest shareholder as a last-ditch defence against a hostile $8.1bn (Â£4.35bn) bid from Harmony, its rival South African gold producer.
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Oracle's $7.7 billion takeover offer for PeopleSoft has been extended several times already and was set to expire today.
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At least two bidding  groups plan to submit offers on Friday to acquire Cadbury  Schweppes Plc&#39;s  U.S. beverage unit for as much as  $15.8 billion (8 billion pounds), sources familiar with the  situation said on Tuesday.
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By Thomas Ginsberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jan. 31--Here is something you may not hear every day: The drug giant Wyeth said yesterday that it was "surprised" to hear that it is about to face generic competition on its $216 million heart drug Inderal LA.
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Warner Chilcott Plc, Northern Ireland&#39;s largest drugmaker, said it&#39;s talking with an unidentified bidder that has offered about 1.56 billion pounds ($2.
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THE deal of the week was made by Knight Frank. It was not a piece of commercial property but a piece of human resource - it has poached Craig Watson from Cushman & Wakefield, Healey & Baker.
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The small pharmaceutical firm signs another big deal.
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PeopleSoft&#39;s (PSFT) board Wednesday rejected Oracle&#39;s (ORCL) &quot;best and final&quot; hostile takeover bid worth about $8.
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The deal, estimated in the past at some $8 billion, should warm relations between the world's top two energy consumers, who have clashed lately over a range of issues from the yuan currency to the Chinese bid ...Comment
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Eight sellers ordered to pay nearly $90,000 after admitting to bidding up products online to inflate prices.
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Vox populi: Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) attorney Michael Carroll says the firm will abandon its legal assault on PeopleSoft&#39;s (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) &quot;poison pill&quot; defenses--if investors fail to tender at least 50% of their shares by Nov
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Northern Irish drug maker Warner Chilcott has received a bid approach worth 837 pence per share which values the company at 1.53 billion pounds.
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A popular painkiller is being withdrawn from the market over concerns about links with overdoses.
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The controversial pesticide used to protect new homes from termites will be sold beyond a deadline that requires it to be phased out at the end of the month.
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Women&#39;s healthcare specialist Warner Chilcott has received a bid approach which would value the firm at more than Â£1.5bn ($2.
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The company has earned its nosebleed valuation.