Oracle ups PeopleSoft offer to US$24 per share
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Oracle announced Monday that it has increased its PeopleSoft takeover bid to US$24 a share, calling the figure its &quot;best and final&quot; offer for its rival.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Oracle late Thursday extended its hostile bid for PeopleSoft for the 13th time, leaving its $7.7 billion offer unchanged at $21 per share.
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Oracle Corp. has again extended its $7.7 billion cash offer for PeopleSoft Inc. by two weeks. Shareholders now have until Oct. 22 to tender their shares, Oracle said Thursday.
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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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Oracle Corp.'s &#36;24-a-share hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. heated up anew yesterday as tonight's deadline for stockholders to offer their shares for sale approached.
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Larry Ellison&#39;s software maker Oracle yesterday got the green light from a US federal judge for its US$7.7 billion takeover of smaller rival PeopleSoft, sending PeopleSoft shares up 15 per cent.
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Software manufacturer Oracle Corp. said Monday that it raised its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. to $24 per share from $21, and said the new price represents the company&#39;s &quot;best and final offer.
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Just as lawyers are preparing to defend Oracle's hostile bid to acquire PeopleSoft, Oracle reduced its all-cash offer for the company from $26 to $21 per share.
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Oracle has extended its $21-per-share tender offer to PeopleSoft&#39;s shareholders, which was due to expire this week. The new deadline is September 10th.
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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.
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Oracle finally clinched its bid to scoop up PeopleSoft on Monday, saying it had agreed to purchase the rival business software group for $26.50 a share or $10.3bn.
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S&amp;P Equity Research maintained ratings for PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) and Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ). On Saturday, 61% of PeopleSoft shareholders tendered their stock in favor of Oracle&#39;s offer of $24 a share for the company.
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A majority of PeopleSoft'sÂ shareholders gave OracleÂ the green light to continue its hostile bid for control of the company, tendering more than 60 percent of PeopleSoft's outstanding shares into Oracle's $24 per share cash offer by the Friday deadline.
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That sentiment came after PeopleSoft&#39;s board rejected Oracle&#39;s latest offer for the company, which amounted to USD24 per share.
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Oracle says its latest bid to purchase PeopleSoft is its &quot;best and final offer.&quot; At $24 per share, Oracle&#39;s offer is higher than PeopleSoft&#39;s 24-week high.
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Updated: Oracle receives tender offers for more than 60 percent of the outstanding PeopleSoft shares and calls for talks to reach a formal buyout agreement.
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Over the weekend, Oracle announced that approximately 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s outstanding shares had been tendered to Oracle in that company&#39;s $9.2 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft.