When Vinny Smith sold his company Quest Software to Dell last year for $2.4 billion, he said he planned to use some of his profits to become an investor. He wasn't kidding.

Big earnings miss at Dell indicates widespread weakness in the PC industry.Are we seeing the end of an era?

Michael Dell has been taunting HP lately by claiming his company is gaining server market share at HP's expense. Looks like he's right: In HP's second quarter, sales of industry standard servers—ones with x86 Intel and AMD processors—fel

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalization propo

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalization propo

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Marvell Technology Group said Thursday afternoon that earnings dell sharply in the first fiscal quarter, but the adjusted results surpassed Wall Street's expectations. For the period ended May 4, Marvellreported net inc

Marvell Technology Group said Thursday afternoon that earnings dell sharply in the first fiscal quarter, but the adjusted results surpassed Wall Street's expectations.

Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalization proposal for Dell Inc, ban

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalizati

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in...

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in...

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalizati

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to begin syndicating a $5.2 billion term loan B to...

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to begin syndicating a $5.2 billion term loan B to...

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to begin syndicating a $5.2 billion term loan B to back their bid for Dell Inc, banking sources told Th

Southeastern Asset Management, the activist firm try to foil the Dell buyout, once again dove deeply into the company's figures and comments to study the PC maker's future. And surprise! Southeastern thinks the future is bright, and that bi

Carl Icahn's bid for Dell is the billionaire's latest turn at bat in a legendary investing career that has been on a roll of late, but even his recent run of success has not been perfect.

A May 22 First Take by MarketWatch misstated the fiscal quarter for Hewlett-Packard. The story has been corrected.

Hewlett-Packard Co.reported a steep sales drop in its personal computer business. But the tech giant managed to keep the business profitable, likely by taking the opposite tact of rival Dell: It appears to have refrained from huge price cuts, a move

Observations on Dell's Fiscal First Quarter Earnings Results May 22, 2013 As long-term shareholders of Dell, we closely reviewed the Company's fiscal first quarter earnings results, as reported on an accelerated basis last week following a series of

Huawei's U.S. enterprise unit, which has been trying to take business from Cisco, HP, Dell and IBM, is sick of U.S. tech companies dragging its name through the mud.  And it wants payback. "Our competitors are not being nice to us. We're not goi

When you think of Texas businesses, large corporations like Exxon Mobil, Dell, and Texas Instruments are generally the first that come to mind. But over the past few years, from the inner cities to out-on-the-range, smaller firms have been stirring t

Dell's abandonment of OpenStack means the way is now clear for it to buy Rackspace. Even if it doesn't, someone else will.

Dell Inc.'s (DELL) special committee sent another letter to activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. seeking more information about their takeover proposal, reiterating that the committee can't engage in talks until determi

If there’s anything that Carl Icahn learned in the mean schoolyards of 1940s Far Rockaway, it’s chutzpah. To wit: responding to Dell’s demands for more information about his nebulous plan to sort-of take the company over by issuing

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Dell Inc. posted one of last week's biggest earnings disappointments, as earnings for its fiscal first quarter ended May 31 fell 79% and revenue fell 2%.Most of the attention is on the company's PC division, where sales fell b

Dell sent another letter to Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management seeking more information about their takeover proposal, reiterating that it can't engage in talks before determining whether the proposal is credible.

The rival offer contained no details of how a deal would be financed, and has been with scepticism by many people close to the deal

Dell Inc.'s (DELL) special committee sent another letter to activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. seeking more information about their takeover proposal, reiterating that the committee can't engage in talks until determi

(Corrects to remove reference to Steven Dixon and Domenic Dell'Osso Jr in the last paragraph)

(Corrects to remove reference to Steven Dixon and Domenic Dell'Osso Jr in the last paragraph)

Dell Inc.'s (DELL) special committee sent another letter to activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. seeking more information about their takeover proposal, reiterating that the committee can't engage in talks until determi

(Reuters) - Dell Inc said in a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management that the company would not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to founder Michael Dell's.

(Reuters) - Dell Inc said in a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management that the company would not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to founder Michael Dell's.

* Dell says board to evaluate if Icahn's offer is "superior"

* Dell says board to evaluate if Icahn's offer is "superior"

* Dell says board to evaluate if Icahn's offer is "superior"

* Dell says board to evaluate if Icahn's offer is "superior"

Dell's special committee sent another letter to the activist investors seeking more information about their takeover proposal.

Icahn and Southwestern trying to block Michael Dell from taking company private

Dell Incsent a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management saying the company could not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to Michael Dell's.

May 20 (Reuters) - Dell Inc sent a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management saying the company could not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that...

May 20 (Reuters) - Dell Inc sent a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management saying the company could not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to Michael Dell's.

May 20 (Reuters) - Dell Inc sent a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management saying the company could not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to Michael Dell's.

May 20 (Reuters) - Dell Inc sent a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management saying the company could not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that...

May 20 (Reuters) - Dell Inc sent a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management saying the company could not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to Michael Dell's.