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2013/4/23
Dell Inc. disclosed Tuesday its board approved a $91.1 million special bonus pool as retention bonuses for some of its executives, as the computer maker tries to hold onto key personnel while it pursues a $24.4 billion buyout deal.
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2013/5/7
Dell today announced the new SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), that enable mid-sized organizations, branch offices, school campuses and government agencies to have multi-layered protection from sophisticated attacks and control over applications while also assuring optimal network performance and total of cost of ownership.
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2013/2/5
Former United States Securities and Exchange Commission attorney Willie Briscoe and the securities litigation firm of Powers Taylor, LLP are investigating the sale of Dell, Inc. (“Dell”) (NasdaqGS: DELL) to its founder and CEO Michael Dell and Silver Lake for shareholders.
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2013/5/10
Students from around the world will gather in Austin on May 14 to vie for the grand prize of the Dell Social Innovation Challenge (DSIC). More than $350,000 in awards and seed money will be given to student finalists to help see their business ideas to fruition.
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2013/5/15
Dell Software today announced the latest release of SharePlex™ , a leading data replication solution that now also supports near real-time data integration to drive improved data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics.
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2013/2/7
Dell Software today announced that the Thomas Cook online travel agency (OTA) has achieved real and tangible results through a massive increase in IT effectiveness with the addition of Foglight ®, the performance monitoring solution from Dell acquisition Quest Software.
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2013/2/14
Dell Software announced that UBM Channel’s CRN selected Dell SonicWALL as one of the ‘ Best Companies to Partner With .’ Dell SonicWALL was recognized for excellence in the results of the second annual “Best Companies to Partner With” survey unveiled at UBM Channel’s COMDEX virtual event.
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2013/3/13
Dell, a leading provider of connected security offerings, announced today that its Dell SonicWALL™ SuperMassive™ E10800 Next-Generation Firewall running SonicOS 6.0 has earned the highest rating of ‘Recommend’ from NSS Labs, which provides independent validation for IT administrators who seek the best performing security required for their modern corporate network and deployment scenarios.
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2013/4/5
The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) today sent a letter to Carl Icahn addressing his request for expense reimbursement in connection with the alternative transaction he has proposed to the definitive merger agreement between the company and entities owned by Michael Dell, Dell’s Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and investment funds affiliated with Silver Lake Partners.
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2013/5/10
The Special Committee of the Board of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) today issued the following statement regarding a non-binding proposal it has received from Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management: “Mr. Icahn and Southeastern have outlined a potential leveraged recapitalization transaction that they want the Dell Board either to recommend at this time or to consider if the existing going-private transaction is rejected by Dell shareholders.
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2013/3/6
The Special Committee of Dell’s Board of Directors today issued the following statement regarding its evaluation of Dell’s (NASDAQ:DELL) strategic alternatives: “The Special Committee, consisting solely of independent directors and working with our independent legal and financial advisors, undertook a rigorous process, over a period of more than five months, to evaluate Dell’s current risks, opportunities and strategic alternatives.
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2013/4/19
The Special Committee of the Board of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) today announced that it has been informed by Blackstone Management Partners L.L.C. that the group led by Blackstone has decided not to submit a definitive proposal to acquire the Company and is withdrawing from the process.
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2013/3/25
The Special Committee of the Board of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) today announced that the “go-shop” period provided for in the merger agreement between the company and entities owned by Michael Dell, Dell’s Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and investment funds affiliated with Silver Lake Partners, has elicited two alternative acquisition proposals.
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2013/5/13
The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) today sent a letter to Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, requesting additional information related to the proposed leveraged recapitalization transaction submitted to the Special Committee on May 9, 2013, as part of the Special Committee’s thorough review of the proposed transaction.
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2013/3/7
The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) today issued the following statement in response to a letter it received from Carl Icahn urging that Dell pursue a leveraged recapitalization and pay a $9.00 per share dividend if the agreed going-private transaction at $13.65 per share, which was announced on February 5, 2013, is voted down by shareholders.
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2013/4/11
Today Dell OEM Solutions announced that it has worked with Microsoft Corp.
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2013/4/16
Dell Inc. (DELL) has struck a deal with Carl Icahn under which the billionaire investor has agreed not to buy shares that would give him a more than 10% stake in the PC maker as the company's takeover process unfolds.
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2013/3/7
Dell announced today that its global team members volunteered more than 700,000 hours in their communities during its recently ended fiscal year 2013 — significantly beating its 500,000 hours goal.
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2013/4/30
Dell will hold a conference call with analysts and investors on May 21, 2013, at 3:45 p.m. CT to discuss first quarter fiscal 2014 financial results.
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2013/1/31
Dell will hold a conference call with analysts and investors on February 19, 2013, at 4 p.m. CT to discuss fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2013 financial results.
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2013/4/5
Dell Inc. (DELL) said it is willing to provide activist investor Carl Icahn with the same expense reimbursement that it has offered to its other two bidders, but only if Mr.
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2013/5/14
Dell Inc. (DELL) will release first-quarter earnings Thursday, ahead of a previously scheduled Tuesday release, with results expected to be below market expectations, CNBC's David Faber reported Tuesday, citing people close to the situation.
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2013/5/8
Dell will hold a conference call with analysts and investors on May 21, 2013, at 3:30 p.m. CT to discuss first quarter fiscal 2014 financial results.
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2013/5/14
Dell will hold a conference call with analysts and investors on May 16, 2013, at 3:45 p.m. CT to discuss first quarter fiscal 2014 financial results.
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2013/3/4
Dell has joined forces with Red Hat, Intel and VMware to open a dedicated center where hospitals can test and deploy a new option for running Epic Systems’ electronic health records (EHR) software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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2013/3/13
Dell today raised the bar on computing with the announcement of the XPS 18 , a design breakthrough that achieves a perfect blend of weight, large display size and performance in a thin, elegant and highly mobile design.
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2013/2/27
Dell today announced its “Annie – the girl who could fly” advertisement was named as one of the top 10 ads of the year in TED’s annual Ads Worth Spreading report.
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2013/4/22
Dell continues to accelerate the growth of midsize businesses, providing scalable technology solutions that help firms focus on business needs without worrying about the reliability of their IT environment.
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2013/5/16
JM Financial Services Ltd, one of India’s largest brokerage firms, consolidated their infrastructure on Dell PowerEdge Servers with VMWare virtualization software and Dell EqualLogic storage solutions.
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2013/4/2
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — One of the biggest bombshells in Dell Inc.’s voluminous proxy last week was that its biggest institutional shareholder initially pitched the idea of going private to Chief Executive Michael Dell.
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