Oracle will have to pay $1.43 billion in cash, or $43 per share, which is approximately 20.0% of RightNow’s closing price of $35.96, as of October 21, 2011. According to Bloomberg, the acquisition ...

Oracle's rivalry with Salesforce.com is about to get more interesting. Oracle said Monday that it will acquire RightNow, which is a customer service-as-a-service company, for $1.5 billion, or $43 a ...

It’s exciting to see the news of yet another acquisition in the world of customer service with the announcement of Oracle’s intent to acquire RightNow. Today’s contact center ecosystem is complex, and ...

Users gathered at the Customer Summit 2011 at the Broadmoor Hotel woke up to the shocking announcement that Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced a $1.43B acquisition of leading SMB CRM vendor RightNow ...

CRM company joins Oracle in "aggressive" move... Oracle is to buy CRM company RightNow for $1.5bn, as part of the database giant's rapid move into offering services via the cloud. Thomas Kurian, EVP ...

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Oracle has bought online customer service company RightNow Technologies for US$1.5 billion in a move that will beef up its cloud offerings as well as heat up head-to-head competition with rival ...

While RightNow has a vision for how customer experience will evolve over the coming years to encompass mobile computing, the main issue facing RightNow's customers is what to make of Oracle. Oracle is ...

BOZEMAN, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RightNow® (NASDAQ: RNOW), the leading provider of cloud-based customer service, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Oracle ...

Larry Ellison just paid $1.5 billion to secure a place in the cloud. Ellison’s Oracle Corp. on Monday unveiled a deal to acquire RightNow Technologies Inc., expanding its cloud-computing arsenal three ...

Oracle announced today pans to purchase RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.5 billion. RightNow is a provider of cloud-based customer service applications. Used by customer service agents, RightNow's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The description of RightNow Technologies in its regulatory filings is a tour de force of faddish, ...