The software soap opera pitting PeopleSoft Inc. against its relentless suitor Oracle Corp. appears ready to heat up again, ending a brief lull in a drama that riveted Silicon Valley much of the summer ...

Capping 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 largest maker of ...

Oracle also filed suit against PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, the application software maker that PeopleSoft has announced plans to acquire. The move is not unexpected; analysts and industry watchers ...

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 ...

Shortly after the market closed Thursday, J.D. Edwards filed two lawsuits against Oracle and demanded $1.7 billion in compensatory damages over the company's hostile takeover attempt of PeopleSoft, ...

PeopleSoft Inc.'s board fired Craig Conway as its chief executive after hearing him explain why he made a misleading statement about the business software maker's ability to close sales while fighting ...

Software company Oracle Corp. said Wednesday that it planned to nominate four candidates for election in 2005 to the board of its rival and takeover target PeopleSoft Inc. Oracle, which has been ...

Oracle Corp. will fire 5,000 workers in the financial fallout from the business software maker’s recently completed $10.3 billion takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. The job cuts outlined Friday ...

Oracle announced on Thursday that it has extended to mid-October its deadline for tendering shares in its hostile $7.25 billion bid for PeopleSoft. Oracle pushed its tender offer deadline to midnight ...

PeopleSoft has failed to persuade a court to fully open up Oracle e-mail and documents relating to Oracle's hostile takeover bid for its business software rival. The lawsuit was initially filed in ...

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Oracle has raised its takeover bid for PeopleSoft to $19.50 per share, valuing the software company at $6.3 billion, in the latest twist in the highly charged software industry saga. Oracle also filed ...