hostile takeover
RSS hostile takeoverMicrosoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News In 2003, PeopleSoft hired Reback in its failed effort to fend off Oracle's hostile $6.3bn takeover bid. The Internet Archive is enlisting some heavy hitters in its challenge of Google's proposed... [21 Aug 2009]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News faced with intense shareholder pressure and a hostile takeover attempt by Microsoft, has tried to hitch itself to Google through a search-ad deal with its rival. has begun a project that lets anyone... [10 Jul 2008]
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! Microsoft has given Yahoo! maintains "unrealistic expectations" of a better deal. Microsoft chief... [25 Apr 2008]
Microsoft and Yahoo! in 'informal' merger talks
News This adds further clarity to comments Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made at the CeBIT tech trade show a couple of weeks ago, in which he said "'there is a range of dialogue' for both companies about the proposed takeover,"... [14 Mar 2008]
Top five takeovers that shook the tech world
News Microsoft last week launched a hostile $44.6bn takeover bid to buy web giant Yahoo! When tech services and hardware group HP bought PC maker Compaq, the move was hailed as the biggest... [04 Feb 2008]
Oracle warns BEA it won't wait forever
News Oracle is no stranger to hostile-takeover battles, after waging an 18-month proxy fight to acquire PeopleSoft in 2004, a campaign that included a legal tangle with antitrust regulators who opposed the deal. [24 Oct 2007]
Oracle-Siebel mega-merger gets EC green light
News Both the EC and the US Department of Justice raised concerns about the takeover when it was proposed. After 18 months of hostile manoeuvring to acquire PeopleSoft, however, Oracle ultimately prevailed. [22 Dec 2005]
Q&A: CA CEO John Swainson
Comment At times during that three-year spell, riddled with hostile takeover talk and accounting scandal, you could have been forgiven for thinking CA was another empire-of-sorts running into more than its fair... [16 Nov 2005]
Shareholders take a swipe at Sun
News Sun's board, however, advises shareholders to vote against Steiner's proposal and notes that shareholder rights plans enhance shareholder value in the event of a friendly or hostile takeover attempt.... [22 Sep 2005]
Oracle-Siebel mega-merger: What the analysts say...
News Earlier this year, Oracle closed its PeopleSoft merger, which began as a hostile takeover attempt and took almost two years to complete. Oracle's mega-merger with Siebel Systems received mixed reviews on... [13 Sep 2005]
LSE trading system under threat of takeover
News William Conner, lead analyst at Datamonitor, said there have been issues with performance despite the fact the LSE cited the robustness of Sets as a defence in the failed hostile takeover in 2000. The... [10 Jan 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Software and open source
News The drama, of course, was over Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft which on 13 December resulted in Larry Ellison getting his way to the tune of a $10bn acquisition. Consolidation hits the big time. [21 Dec 2004]
Caring sharing Oracle gets hand-holdy with PeopleSoft
News His mission: to smooth out strained relations resulting from an 18-month hostile takeover struggle. Oracle appears to be putting its money where its mouth is after sealing its merger with PeopleSoft last... [21 Dec 2004]
Sold! PeopleSoft goes to Oracle for $10bn
News The lawsuit was one of several that had been filed in the course of the hostile takeover bid. PeopleSoft's board of directors has approved a takeover deal with Oracle worth around... [13 Dec 2004]
PeopleSoft wins poison-pill reprieve
News The Delaware Chancery Court, historically, has been reluctant to remove a company's poison pill, which floods the market with additional shares and makes a hostile takeover cost-prohibitive. Oracle's... [25 Nov 2004]
