takeover on tuesday
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! s better-than-expected first-quarter results, reported on Tuesday, had not changed Microsoft's view of its value. [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," as cited in an Associated... [14 Mar 2008]
TomTom takes sharp upturn on Microsoft rumours
News Shares in GPS navigation company TomTom rose sharply on Tuesday amid speculation the company could be a takeover target for Microsoft. By the close of trading on Tuesday afternoon in Amsterdam, TomTom's share price had risen by 6.3 per cent to €32.41. [06 Jul 2006]
NTL buys Virgin Mobile for £962m
News Cable operator NTL has completed its takeover of Virgin Mobile, creating the UK's first 'quadruple play' telecoms operator. The two companies announced on Tuesday morning that NTL will pay a total of £962.4m for Virgin Mobile. [04 Apr 2006]
Oracle Fortifies security
News The takeover of Siebel Systems is still pending. The Redwood Shores, California-based enterprise software maker has started using technology from Fortify Software to analyse the source code of some of its products for potential security... [21 Dec 2005]
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]
C&W snatches Energis for £674m
News Francesco Caio, C&W's chief executive, said the takeover would help his firm offer next-generation telecoms services to businesses and compete better with BT. C&W announced on Tuesday morning that its offer of £674m for Energis had been accepted by... [16 Aug 2005]
Ellison: Come together, right now...
News Oracle just spent $10.3bn to acquire PeopleSoft in a contentious 18-month takeover battle to scoop up thousands of PeopleSoft customers as well as woo new business that would have otherwise gone to the former competitor. [19 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]
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]
EC gives Oracle-PeopleSoft the green light
News European antitrust regulators ruled on Tuesday that Oracle can proceed with its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, clearing the last regulatory hurdle in the protracted and tumultuous battle. With the last regulatory obstacle out of the way... [26 Oct 2004]
Leader: Retailers, be brave with IT
Leader The takeover meant the exit of that particularly progressive and sensible head of IT. Anyone who caught mainstream news reports on Tuesday evening couldn't have missed cameras focusing on empty shelves at busy Sainsbury shops - a sin in retail if... [20 Oct 2004]
PeopleSoft would sell to Oracle - if the price is right
News In the Delaware trial, Oracle is seeking to remove PeopleSoft's shareholder rights plan, an anti-takeover measure commonly referred to as a "poison pill" and one of the last obstacles to the acquisition if the European Commission does not try to... [06 Oct 2004]
DoJ and Oracle face final scrutiny in trial
News The judge presiding over the Oracle antitrust trial aggressively questioned the software maker and the US Justice Department on Tuesday as both sides made final arguments regarding Oracle's attempt at a hostile takeover of rival PeopleSoft. [21 Jul 2004]
Oracle and DoJ put it in writing
News The Justice Department is suing Oracle to block the software company's proposed hostile takeover of PeopleSoft. Oracle and the US Department of Justice each filed a second round of legal briefs on Tuesday with the federal judge deciding whether... [14 Jul 2004]
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