Carl Icahn Is No Longer in Michael Dell’s Way
Activist investor Carl Icahn, a man known for taking large stakes in companies he judges to be ill-managed or undervalued and pushing for change, began amassing his 8.9 percent stake in the struggling...
View ArticleNo More Icahn, No More Vote Worries for Michael Dell
Carl Icahn’s months-long attempt to convince shareholders to vote against company founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion leveraged buyout offer for Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), and...
View ArticleHey Nasdaq, It’s Finally Time to Say Bye to Dell
Michael Dell, who began the eponymous company from his college dorm room in 1984, has finally convinced shareholders that his privatization plan is the best option for the struggling personal computer...
View ArticleDell’s New Angle: Every New Mobile Company Needs Enterprise
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) made a brief foray into the smartphone business – releasing the Venue Pro, a handset powered by Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows mobile operating platform, in December 2010 and...
View ArticleCan Dell Really Be More Than a Hardware Vendor?
Now that Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell has finally convinced shareholders that his $24.9-billion privatization plan was the best option for the struggling personal...
View ArticleHere’s How BlackBerry Is Setting the Stage for Privatization
Last Friday, shares of BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) were halted shortly before 3 p.m. EDT. The beleaguered smartphone maker apparently wanted to brace the markets for the preliminary release of its fiscal...
View ArticleIs Icahn’s Bickering With Michael Dell Done for Good?
“I withdrew my demand for appraisal of my Dell shares. Based on our returns on capital, we believe we have better uses for $2 billion.” — Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) October 4, 2013 The stake in...
View ArticleAfter a Tumultuous Year, Dell Bids the Nasdaq Farewell
Tuesday is the last day Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) will be publicly traded on the Nasdaq, or, as company founder and CEO Michael Dell said in a press release announcing the completion of his acquisition of...
View ArticleBlackBerry’s Chen: In It for the Long Haul
Aiming to shoot off the vultures circling over BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBR) — the smartphone competitors attempting to attract new customers by by peddling false information about the company’s supposed...
View ArticleMexico Set to Open Oil Fields to International Companies
Mexico is considering abandoning some of its state-controlled monopoly on the production of oil, Bloomberg reports. After 75 years of control by the state-owned company Pemex, Mexico’s oil fields may...
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