- Wed Jul 28 2004 Lawson cooks up 'poison pill'
The business software maker adopts a shareholder rights plan to encourage takeover candidates to deal with its board.
Posted by Alorie Gilbert
- Wed Feb 18 2004 Oracle woos shareholder group
The software maker and its director nominees for PeopleSoft's board meet with Institutional Shareholder Services to persuade the influential group to recommend the slate to institutional investors.
Posted by Dawn Kawamoto
- Tue May 3 2005 Siebel speculators, take a chill pill
Posted by Alorie Gilbert
- Sat Nov 20 2004 Oracle wins PeopleSoft shareholder vote
PeopleSoft investors keep $9.2 billion bid in play, but the deal still faces hurdles.
Posted by Alorie Gilbert
- Thu Mar 25 2004 PeopleSoft shareholders support CEO
Investors stand firmly behind the software company's board of directors, despite its resistance to a hostile takeover bid by rival Oracle.
Posted by Alorie Gilbert and Dawn Kawamoto
- Fri Aug 8 2003 PeopleSoft shareholders get more time
Oracle extends the deadline for tendering shares in its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, an expected move, given that antitrust regulators are still pondering the proposed takeover.
Posted by Alorie Gilbert
- Fri Nov 7 2003 Some PeopleSoft shareholders want refund plan axed
They want to put a halt to the software maker's customer refund program to create more favorable conditions for rival Oracle if that company's hostile takeover bid proves successful.
Posted by Matt Hines
- Mon Nov 22 2004 Oracle: Let's get past this 'impasse'
PeopleSoft needs to get over its stubbornness and accept a new reality following Friday's shareholder vote, Oracle's chairman says.
Oracle wins PeopleSoft shareholder vote
Posted by Dawn Kawamoto
- Fri Dec 10 2004 PeopleSoft picks date for Oracle showdown
Shareholder vote set for March 25, the date PeopleSoft's owners may decide to give Oracle control of the company.
Posted by Alorie Gilbert
- Mon Nov 8 2004 Oracle may drop PeopleSoft lawsuit
Oracle says it will nix the claim unless PeopleSoft shareholders agree to sell at least half their holdings by Nov. 19.
Posted by Alorie Gilbert
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