Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices of related tablets. The company has "future generations" of its XPS 10 tablet, which runs Windows RT, under development, ...
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Systems management software vendor BMC Software has announced job cuts following the conclusion of a review into its operations. The restructuring will result in a pre-tax charge estimated at between $33m and $38m (£21m and ...
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Dell last week released a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that highlighted commercial considerations that led to the firm looking to go private, citing the financial outlook for the PC market as a primary reason. ...
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Dell has received two counter-offers related to its plans to go private, with rival bids coming in from private equity fund manager Blackstone and entities associated with investor Carl Icahn. Reports of the offers surfaced in recent ...
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While Michael Dell struggles to take his eponymously named hardware vendor private, BMC Software is set to be taken private in a takeover by a consortium of private equity interests. BMC, best known for its systems management software, ...
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Even though PC giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell reported significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, started to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors ...
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Despite PC giants HP and Dell reporting significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, began to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors in diverse ...
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Dell executives went on the offensive this week, claiming that the firm can trump Cisco in the information technology security market, as well as holding an edge against powerful rivals such as HP and IBM. “Cisco is a great ...
Dell has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profit as the company's CEO continues his battle to take the PC maker private. It was the fifth consecutive quarter in which Dell's profits shrank, and the fourth in which it ...
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IDG News Service - The growing number of shareholders voicing opposition to Dell's US$24.4 billion plan to go private appears to be putting the company increasingly on the defensive, raising questions about the terms of the deal. This is ...
Questions are being raised about the terms of Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout deal, as the number of shareholders voicing opposition to the plan appears to be growing. Dell is now increasingly on the defensive. This is not good news ...
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Dell's decision to go private has led to mixed reaction from the company's customers, who are watching developments closely as they consider the next steps in their product procurement plans. Some of Dell's customers think privatization ...
Free from the bright lights of Wall Street, Dell's decision to go private is likely to lead to the company downplaying if not entirely eliminating consumer products in favor of building out its enterprise product portfolio, analysts said. ...
Southeastern Asset Management, Dell's biggest external shareholder, has written a letter to Dell's board of directors to express its "extreme disappointment" at the company's $24.4bn (£15.54bn) buyout deal, claiming that it "grossly ...
Michael Dell might be celebrating having agreed a buyout for his company, but $24.4 billion leveraged deal has seen a backlash, with one of the company’s largest shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, planning to oppose the ...
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