Dell

Dell is a Texas-based technology company founded by Michael Dell, and is the third largest PC maker in the world after HP and Lenovo. In early 2013, it announced plans for a leveraged buyout by its founder, in partnership with a group of investors and Microsoft.

Dell’s profit dives as billionaire battle rages on

17 May 2013

Dell, the subject of a takeover battle between activist investor Carl Icahn and the company’s billionaire founder, reported a 79 per cent slide in profit as personal computer sales continued to...

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Cisco jumps on dividend hike, props up network gear makers

17 May 2013

Shares of Cisco Systems jumped 9 per cent as a dividend hike and share buyback plan overshadowed comments that business conditions in Europe would not improve anytime soon for the network...

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Blackstone backs out of Dell bid as PC sales fall

19 Apr 2013

Blackstone pulled out of bidding for Dell amid concerns about the personal-computer maker's finances and the worsening outlook for global PC sales.

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Dell's stagnant sales raise pressure for buyout

1 Apr 2013

The firm's sales for the year ending in January will slip to US$56.5 billion, and Dell's PC business will shrink by US$10 billion over four years, according to projections in a proxy statement...

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For whom the Dell tolls

18 Feb 2013

Michael Dell, the reclusive founder of Dell, the world's third-largest PC maker, is controversially trying to privatise his company, and will take on a US$16 billion debt to do so.

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Dell buyout proposal fails to impress shareholders

14 Feb 2013

Dell's biggest outside investors, T. Rowe Price and Southeastern Asset Management, oppose the US$13.65-a-share proposal, saying it undervalues the number-three maker of personal computers.

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Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Dell goes private in US$24b buy-out

The personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a US$24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since the current recession dried up the financing for...

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Dell in buyout talks with private-equity firms

Dell, the personal-computer maker that lost almost a third of its value last year, was in buyout talks with private-equity firms, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

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Dell expansion on mainland spells greater investments

Dell will steadily increase its investments on the mainland, as the computer maker this year expands into the information-technology services and software business in its second-largest market...

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HP breakup bolstered as takeovers exceed equity value

Hewlett-Packard’s value has plunged to less than the US$31 billion it spent during a five-year takeover binge, the strongest evidence yet that investors would be better served by disassembling the...

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TECHNOLOGY

Dell strengthens hold as mainland's No 2 computer brand

Dell strengthened its position as the second-biggest personal computer supplier on the mainland in the quarter to September, despite slumping sales worldwide.

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TABLETS

With Surface, Microsoft becomes friend and foe to PC partners

With the launch of its Surface tablet computer, Microsoft is becoming a genuine “frenemy” – part friend, part enemy – to its longtime manufacturing partners.

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