Adobe Scoops Up Server Company
News In a statement released on Friday, Accelio urged shareholders to withdraw any shares tendered to Open Text. Adobe's offer follows an earlier bid by Open Text, a larger Canadian software maker specialising in networking and content collaboration tools.
[February 4, 2002, 12:04]
Creditors Await Court's Cable Verdict
News AT&T spokeswoman Eileen Connolly said AT&T executives informed Excite@Home chief executive Patti Hart about the decision to withdraw the offer late on Monday afternoon. Creditors had previously tried to stall the AT&T purchase because they thought...
[December 6, 2001, 15:59]
Early Acceptance Runs Risks For PeopleSoft Shareholders
News Investors who don't withdraw their acceptance of the offer may find themselves out of luck should Oracle choose to buy their shares, proxy solicitors say. PeopleSoft investors who tendered their stock to Oracle when its hostile bid stood at $26...
[June 10, 2004, 12:05]
OneTel Withdraws From UK Mobile Licence Auction
News Onetel is the fifth company to withdraw -- following in the footsteps of 3GUK, Crescent, Epsilon, One.Tel and Spectrumco -- leaving just eight companies in the bidding. Over £13bn has been bid so far.
[April 6, 2000, 11:54]
Change Of Bids For Wireless Broadband Auction
News A spokeswoman for the Department of Trade and Industry refused to speculate on whether PCCW had been ordered to withdraw 14 of its subsidiaries from the fray, but did suggest that it "made more sense this way".
[May 13, 2003, 15:32]
ICANN Roundly Condemns VeriSign's Site Finder
News Site Finder was introduced in September 2003, but VeriSign was forced to withdraw it in October 2003 after complaints from some network administrators and software developers who said it was disruptive.
[July 13, 2004, 17:05]
Microsoft Directors Abandon Ship At Telewest
News Microsoft has decided to withdraw its three non-executive directors from Telewest's board, leading to heightened speculation that the troubled cable firm could soon undergo major restructuring. Investors took the news that the three Microsoft...
[May 15, 2002, 11:51]
Oracle's Bid Opposed By Justice Dept
News While challenging the suit, Oracle said it will withdraw a slate of directors it had proposed for a 25 March meeting of PeopleSoft shareholders. US Department of Justice officials on Thursday filed a lawsuit to block Oracle's hostile $9.4bn...
[February 27, 2004, 11:25]
ISO Rejects Microsoft OOXML
News If the proposed modifications are such that national bodies then wish to withdraw their negative votes and the acceptance criteria are met, the standard may proceed to publication," said the ISO statement.
[September 5, 2007, 13:32]
Oracle Warns BEA: Decide By Sunday
News Despite your statement that Oracle will withdraw its proposal, we simply cannot accept an offer that seriously undervalues BEA," the company stated in its response letter. In announcing the deadline, Oracle said on Tuesday it has no interest in a...
[October 24, 2007, 8:43]
PeopleSoft Fails To See All Oracle Emails
News They were perfectly capable of saying, 'we withdraw the (confidentiality designations) in court today,'" Dickey said. PeopleSoft has failed to persuade a court to fully open up Oracle email and documents relating to Oracle's hostile takeover bid...
[September 5, 2003, 9:50]
Virtual Banking Hits The High Street
News According to Gordon Sharpe, director of e-business at the Bank of Scotland, electronic purses -- which will allow online customers to deposit and withdraw money virtually -- will be available in the next two years.
[November 24, 1999, 8:50]
UK Operators Miss Out In Wireless Broadband Auction
News In 11 of the regions, PCCW has been the only bidder since round 23 or earlier, meaning it has won control of these licences unless it decides to withdraw. This explains why Public Hub has not been forced to raise its bid for the Southern licence...
[June 16, 2003, 17:15]
