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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Business software maker Oracle   Corp. ORCL.O 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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After an 18-month hostile takeover battle, Oracle has finally won control of rival PeopleSoft, creating the world&#39;s second-largest supplier of business management software applications.
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The Oracle Corporation has taken control of PeopleSoft, ending an 18-month fight and making Oracle the world&#39;s second-largest maker of business-management software.
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Oracle Corp., the world&#39;s second-largest software firm, made what it called its last and best offer for rival PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday in a takeover battle that has now raged for almost a year and a half.
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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 Corp  on Wednesday won a three-month-long campaign to buy BEA Systems Inc  by raising its bid for the business software maker by 14 percent to $8.5 billion.
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European Union antitrust regulators have cleared Oracle Corp&#39;s hostile $US7.7 billion ($A10.31 billion) bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc, removing one of the last major hurdles to the contested merger.
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Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's second-largest software vendor, has beaten Wall Street analysts' expectations with its first-quarter results, due to strong sales of its  database software.
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Oracle yesterday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft by 14%, to $8.8bn (Â£4.37bn), and for the first time set a deadline for acceptance of the bid.
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Oracle chalked up a key victory Friday in its battle to acquire PeopleSoft, with investors agreeing to sell the suitor 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s outstanding shares.
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The European Commission is set to give US software giant Oracle the go-ahead to take over arch-rival PeopleSoft in a $7.7 billion (4.
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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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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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Good news for whom? Comment Last week, Oracle, one of the industry giants, announced that it has agreed to buy Hyperion Solutions Corporation, by no means a small ISV, for $52 per share - thereby valuing the acquisition at approximately $3.3bn.â¦
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Oracle Corp , the world's  third-largest software maker, won a three-month-long campaign  to buy BEA Systems Inc  by raising its bid for the  company by 14 percent to $8.5 billion.
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Fresh off a surprising legal victory in its bid to acquire PeopleSoft, Oracle reported a 16 percent jump in profit Tuesday, beating Wall Street&#39;s estimate by a penny.