As expected, Oracle closed its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft on Friday, putting an end to a rancorous 18-month struggle between the two companies and making PeopleSoft, once the number two ...

Oracle Corp. has put in a bid to buy out a competitor, PeopleSoft Inc., for approximately $5.1 billion. Analysts say the price is probably too low, and Oracle will have to significantly increase it to ...

The noisy exchange of barbs and accusations between PeopleSoft Inc. and its would-be buyer, Oracle Corp., quieted down in recent weeks as the two companies await decisions about the deal from courts ...

Oracle Corp., which has spent the last year trying to acquire PeopleSoft Inc. in a hostile takeover, on Monday extended its $7.7-billion bid for the software maker to Aug. 27. The company’s tender ...

SAN FRANCISCO Ending 18 months of bad blood, Oracle Corp. raised its takeover bid for bitter rival PeopleSoft Inc. by 10 percent to seal a $10.3 billion deal that will create the world's second ...

Oracle Corp., rebuffed for a fifth time in its attempt to wrest control of PeopleSoft Inc., hired law firm Latham & Watkins to provide advice on other potential acquisitions. Latham & Watkins, which ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- PeopleSoft said Friday that it's completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of software maker J.D. Edwards, complicating rival software maker Oracle's hostile takeover bid for ...

PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, a series of three software modules, marks one of Oracle's three major 2006 initiatives following its acquisition of PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and many other smaller software ...

Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said it would pay $16 per share for PeopleSoft, whose stock price closed at $15.11 in trading on June 5. "The acquisition of PeopleSoft will immediately make Oracle ...