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Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid
News no hope of a higher takeover price, and said it is ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo! as a way to compete with arch-rival Google in the internet search and advertising arena but company executives have repeatedly said they have... [25 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up takeover bid. As the news sent shockwaves across the globe, the Round-Up was delighted to note that at a press conference announcing the seismic shift, CEO Steve Ballmer and his co-joined executives decided they would eschew ties to adopt the... [29 Feb 2008]
iSoft the target of takeover talks?
News The AIDB is probing the actions of several current and former executives.iSoft said last week that it is "continuing to consider a number of options to determine the most appropriate route forward for the company and its shareholders" - an... [19 Feb 2007]
Fiorina keeps mum on HP's Dunn
News Fiorina led HP through one of the largest mergers in the history of high tech, the takeover of Compaq Computer, and ended up losing her job there because of the combined company's struggles to keep pace with rivals. [18 Sep 2006]
Red Hat-JBoss union: Open source comes of age
News JBoss had become an attractive takeover target because of the wide adoption of its Java application server, and it had had discussions with a number of acquirers, said JBoss founder and CEO Marc Fleury. [11 Apr 2006]
Red Hat and JBoss to merge
News Red Hat's move ends months of speculation over a possible acquirer for JBoss, which has seen rapid growth in the past two years and had become a likely takeover candidate. Red Hat and JBoss had tried to come to terms on a partnership around the... [10 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.04.06
Round-Up In other (totally made-up) news it was announced that iTunes was switching to the WMA format and that Apple and Disney were acquiring each other in a phenomenally complicated takeover.silicon.com's own contribution to the japery involved Bill... [07 Apr 2006]
Shareholders take a swipe at Sun
News Shareholder activists are calling for Sun to do away with its "poison pill" takeover defence and realign its executives' stock option plan to be more performance-based, according to a Sun proxy filed on Tuesday. [22 Sep 2005]
Oracle-PeopleSoft: A done deal
News The announcement brings to an end the controversial 18-month takeover battle, which pitted two of the largest sellers of business software applications against each other and extended far beyond the usual fight over customers. [10 Jan 2005]
CEO Duffield leaves PeopleSoft
News PeopleSoft founder David Duffield, who returned as chief executive of the business software maker during its takeover battle with rival Oracle, has resigned from the company. Earlier this month, PeopleSoft's board agreed to a $10.3bn takeover by... [29 Dec 2004]
5 years ago… Vodafone Airtouch poised to make Mannesmann bid
News 09.11.1999: Vodafone AirTouch is on the verge of making a hostile takeover bid for Mannesmann, the German engineering group turned predatory telecoms player, according to UK press reports over the weekend. [09 Nov 2004]
Conway: Ellison is more Genghis Khan than a sociopath
News PeopleSoft's poison-pill strategy would make a hostile takeover bid prohibitively expensive, because it would release a flood of additional shares to the market, making it difficult or impossible for an acquirer to purchase all the shares needed... [07 Oct 2004]
PeopleSoft severance sweetened after Oracle win
News The judge ruled Oracle could move forward with its takeover bid. Oracle, however, still needs to overturn PeopleSoft's anti-takeover measures, otherwise known as a poison pill, and also receive approval from European antitrust regulators. [20 Sep 2004]
Oracle's next big push - ECM
News Oracle executives acknowledged during the company's antirust trial over its attempted takeover of PeopleSoft that Oracle had considered acquiring content management specialist Documentum before EMC gobbled it up, confirming widespread speculation... [17 Sep 2004]
Ellison faces another court battle
News He, and Oracle, are currently waiting for the judgement on the long-drawn-out attempt by the US government to block the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft. The appeals court disagreed, pointing out that Oracle's own systems allowed the company... [03 Sep 2004]
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