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RSS takeover buyoutYahoo! vs Icahn: War of words
News over its rebuff of Microsoft's $47.5bn buyout offer. to rescind anti-takeover defences and merge with Microsoft, writing "even I am amazed at the length Jerry Yang and the Yahoo! The company labelled as "patently untrue" key assertions contained in... [05 Jun 2008]
Microsoft and Yahoo! in 'informal' merger talks
News A lot has changed over the past two weeks, compared with 1 February when Microsoft issued its unsolicited buyout bid for Yahoo! buyout efforts, however, cautioned that if the talks had reached a substantive level, Microsoft would have disclosed it... [14 Mar 2008]
Oracle warns BEA it won't wait forever
News Oracle has warned BEA Systems that its $6.7bn buyout offer will expire on Sunday unless the middleware company agrees to put its offer before shareholders for a vote. The deadline for BEA to accept the buyout offer is Sunday at 17:00(PDT). [24 Oct 2007]
3 job cuts inspire takeover talk
News The news has given fresh fuel to speculation of a buyout, after a period of intense consolidation in the mobile industry has left 3 as the only potential takeover target in the UK.s parent company Hutchison has repeatedly denied the company is for... [27 Nov 2006]
Qualcomm buys Qualphone for $18m
News The Qualphone acquisition marks the latest in a long line of scalps Qualcomm has claimed, including a $170m deal for Iridigm and a takeover of Trigenix for $36m in 2004, followed by a $600m buyout of Flash OFDM company Flarion last year. [18 Aug 2006]
Minority Report: Disney, Pixar and Apple - what happens next
Comment However, rather than a Pixar buyout, many speculated Jobs was in pole position to take over from former chief executive and adversary Michael Eisner. On the face of it, the deal looks more like a Pixar takeover of Disney rather than the other way... [03 Feb 2006]
NTL and Virgin still chewing the takeover fat
News Virgin Mobile, which released a set of interim results showing users with a higher than expected average revenue per user (ARPU), said the pair were still negotiating a potential buyout. The on-off takeover of Virgin Mobile by NTL is still on the... [02 Feb 2006]
Oracle-Siebel mega-merger gets EC green light
News Oracle executives at one point were in buyout discussions with Siebel while also trying to land the PeopleSoft deal. Both the EC and the US Department of Justice raised concerns about the takeover when it was proposed. [22 Dec 2005]
Kingston Communications - for sale for £400m?
News A Kingston Communications buyout would represent the latest example of consolidation in the communications sector. The $6bn mega-merger of NTL and Telewest kicked off a feeding frenzy that has seen Sky snaffle Easynet, Pipex buy Freedom2Surf and... [14 Nov 2005]
Caring sharing Oracle gets hand-holdy with PeopleSoft
News Edwards, a software company PeopleSoft acquired last year that initially opposed the Oracle buyout. Edwards buyout. His mission: to smooth out strained relations resulting from an 18-month hostile takeover struggle. [21 Dec 2004]
Ellison rehashes old themes
News Scoring points for originality appears to have taken a back seat for Ellison, who is the midst of managing a takeover battle with software rival PeopleSoft, weighing other buyout targets and hunting for a professional football team to buy after... [09 Dec 2004]
ITNet admits £200m takeover talks
News ITNet was formed in 1995 out of the IT department at Cadbury Schweppes, following a management buyout led by current CEO Bridget Blow. One of the UK's biggest government IT services suppliers has confirmed it is the subject of a possible takeover... [15 Nov 2004]
'PeopleSoft's profits plummeting' says Oracle exec
News The proposed deal has gained steam since Oracle fought antitrust charges over the buyout plan and won. Catz was testifying under cross examination in the second week of a court case launched by Oracle to remove PeopleSoft's anti-takeover measures... [12 Oct 2004]
Antitrust ruling puts PeopleSoft under renewed pressure
News If that reading is correct, PeopleSoft's main defence against the unwelcome buyout is an anti-takeover provision, or "poison pill". Each of those potential obstacles buys PeopleSoft time to stall the fight, but are unlikely to permanently sideline... [10 Sep 2004]
Oracle wins bitter antitrust case
News The agency took Oracle to court in June, charging that a PeopleSoft buyout would empower Oracle to illegally raise prices and would impair innovation in the industry. In reaction to the ruling, Oracle called for PeopleSoft to drop the defences it... [10 Sep 2004]
