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Cost Plus mum on Pier 1's acquisition offer  Oakland: Cost Plus has yet to formally respond to an unsolicited offer to acquire the retailer in a stock swap worth $88 million Chiron shareholders OK sale to Novartis  Emeryville: Shareholders approved a $5.4 billion acquisition by Swiss drug giant Novartis, ending the independent existence Oracle buys Sleepycat  Emeryville: Continuing a recent shopping spree, software maker announced the acquisition of Sleepycat Software Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal

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  Emeryville: Disney has agreed a $7.4bn deal to buy the animation firm behind films including Toy Story and The Incredibles
 2.3 Disney shares will be issued for each Pixar share. The deal will see Pixar CEO Steve Jobs join Disney's board of directors. Jobs fell out with former Disney boss Michael Eisner. Disney's new boss Robert Iger has been working to revive relations between the companies

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  Emeryville: Chiron's board accepted a $5.1 billion purchase offer from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG
Sep.1 $4.5B Offered to Finish Chiron Takeover  Emeryville: Novartis is offering $4.5 billion in cash for the remaining stake in Chiron to complete its takeover Jul.26 Hershey buys Scharffen Berger  Berkeley: Candy giant announced the acquisition of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker Inc. Mar.21 Diller's Co. Buying Ask Jeeves for $1.85B
  Oakland: Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp is electronic-commerce company. AskJeeves shares climbed 14%
Jan.7 Oracle completes PeopleSoft acquisition  Oracle closed the deal after announcing that that 97% of PeopleSoft's stockholders had accepted a $26.50 offer

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Symantec snaps up Veritas for $13.5b Dec.13   Oracle Buys PeopleSoft for $10.3 Billion
  PeopleSoft agreed to a sweetened buyout by rival software maker, relenting after a 18-month takeover saga
 PeopleSoft's board has approved an improved bid, worth $26.50 a share, after 5 previous offers, ranging in value from $7.7bn to $9.4bn. Oracle was winning the support of 60% PeopleSoft shareholders. Larry Ellison was initially making a $5.1bn offer in June 2003. The merged companies are second only in size to SAP in the enterprise software market
Nov.20   PS board again rejected Oracle’s bid  Pleasanton: The board remains convinced that a bid is inadequate and it will not sell the company for less than it’s worth Nov.19 PeopleSoft shareholders back Oracle bid  Pleasanton: The shareholders are tendering more than 60% of the company's stock in support of the $9.2 billion bid Nov.18 Oracle, PeopleSoft escalate war of words  Oracle Chairman Henley depicted PeopleSoft's board as an untrustworthy group Nov.16   2 major PeopleSoft shareholders differ  Pleasanton: 2 shareholders who own 20% of stock are prepared to line up on opposite sides of the Oracle bid battle lines Nov.10   PS board rejects Oracle's $9.2 billion bid  Pleasanton: PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors vowed to continue its resistance even if the shareholders decide to accept the offer Constellation to buy Mondavi in $1b deal Nov.1 Oracle boosts bid for PeopleSoft  Oracle Corp. sweetened its hostile bid for rival business software maker by 14% to $24 per share Oct.7 Clorox, Henkel in $2.8 billion deal. Oakland Sep.20 PeopleSoft hosts anxious customers. Pleasanton Sep.9 Bid to block PeopleSoft takeover rejected  Oracle: A federal judge Vaughn Walker rejected the government's attempt to block $7.7 billion takeover bid 9 takeover targets before PeopleSoft May.26 PeopleSoft spurns Oracle bid for 4th time  Pleasanton: Business software maker announced a settlement of shareholder suits that objected to an unusual sales program

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Jul.18 PeopleSoft completed J.D. Ed. Acquisition  Pleasanton: The purchase will pose a new and more expensive obstacle for Oracle in its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Jun.6 Oracle offers $5.1 billion for PeopleSoft
  Software maker is in a hostile takeover attempt aimed at eliminating one of its competitors for $16 per share
Jun.2 PeopleSoft to buy J.D. Edwards for $1.7b  Pleasanton: The combined company, which will retain the PeopleSoft name, will be world's second largest maker of software

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Hetch Hetchy bond measure approved CEO claims victory in merger vote



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