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Dell's earnings fall 79% as PC sales sag
ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Inc.'s earnings plunged 79% in the latest quarter as the shift to smartphones and tablets reduced demand for the company's personal computers. The dismal performance announced Thursday might work to the advantage of Dell'...Tags: Shareholders, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Leveraged Buyouts, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Companies and Corporations
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Icahn joins key shareholder to challenge Dell
One of the biggest critics of Michael Dell's plan to take the company he founded private has launched a fresh challenge to that $24.4-billion bid and says the slumping PC maker needs new leadership. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has teamed up with...Tags: Leveraged Buyouts, Companies and Corporations, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Politics, Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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Dell stock rises as company agrees to show books to Carl Icahn
Dell Inc. saw its stock jump 1.26% in midday trading on Monday after the company reached an agreement to let shareholder activist Carl Icahn see its books. Icahn Enterprises disclosed that it had signed a confidentiality agreement with Dell that will...
Tags: Shareholders, Leveraged Buyouts, Companies and Corporations, Carl Icahn, Dell Inc.
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Another investor slams Dell buyout deal
Another large investor has lashed out against the proposed leveraged buyout of Dell Inc., saying the deal led by founder Michael Dell undervalues the computer maker. “We believe the proposed buyout does not reflect the value of Dell and we do...
Tags: Leveraged Buyouts, T. Rowe Price, Dell Inc., Apple iPhone
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Dell Inc. to go private in $24.4-billion deal
After struggling for years to remake itself, Dell Inc. has announced it will be taken private in a deal valued at about $24.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, the Round Rock, Texas, company will be acquired by Dell founder and Chief...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing and Information Technology Industry, IBM, Finance, Microsoft Surface
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Apple, Dell, Microsoft and life's little ironies
We would be remiss in our coverage of the Dell deal today if we did not point out some of the delicious ironies and coincidences contained therein. Let us flash back first to 1997. It's Aug. 6, at the Macworld conference in Boston. Apple's interim chief...
Tags: Bill Gates, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Corporate Officers, Companies and Corporations, Dell Inc.
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Talk of Dell going private sends PC maker's stock soaring
Talk that Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell could announce a deal to take the company private has made investors giddy. Dell's stock soared 13% on Monday, the day the story broke, then jumped some more Tuesday. Late in the trading session, Dell share's...
Tags: Dell Inc., The Wall Street Journal
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Dell moves up 1Q report, raising questions about performance
Austin American-StatesmanIn the midst of a proposed buyout, Dell Inc. said Tuesday that it will report its latest quarterly earnings ahead of schedule _ a move that could raise speculation that the Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker's results will be dismal. The change...Tags: Shareholders, Leveraged Buyouts, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Companies and Corporations, Carl Icahn
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Dell moves up earnings report, stirring speculation about performance
Austin American-StatesmanIn the midst of a proposed buyout, Dell Inc. said Tuesday that it will report its latest quarterly earnings ahead of schedule -- a move that could raise speculation that the Round Rock-based computer maker's results will be dismal. The change means Dell...Tags: Shareholders, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Leveraged Buyouts, Companies and Corporations, Carl Icahn
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Plan to sell gun maker needs a background check
What with the terrorist attack in Boston, the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas and the inane vote against gun control in the U.S. Senate, you may have missed the news late last week about Stephen Feinberg. The reclusive co-founder of the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Politics, Shareholders
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Dell to go private in $24.4B deal led by founder
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Slumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since the Great Recession dried up the financing for such risky maneuvers. The...Tags: Company Privatization, Hewlett-Packard Co., First Data Corporation, Leveraged Buyouts, Companies and Corporations
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Dell's founder strikes deal to turn it around
NEW YORK (AP) — It's easy to forget now, but Michael Dell was the Mark Zuckerberg of his day. Hailed as a young genius, he created the inexpensive, made-to-order personal computer in his University of Texas dorm room and sold it straight to the...
Tags: Forrester Research Incorporated, Hewlett-Packard Co., Leveraged Buyouts, Corporate Officers, Companies and Corporations
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