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Is PC/Windows Weakness Trend Worse for Intel or for AMD?

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 11:45 am

Much weaker than expected PC shipments data from IDC have brought on yet further systemic downgrades and risks to the PC sector. As Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) loses, it seems that ...
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Dell Deal in Danger as PC Sales Fall

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 6:29 am

A drop in first-quarter PC sales reported by research firm IDC was blamed, to some extent, on the public's rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8. The rise of ...
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Computing Going Mobile; Microsoft Going Nowhere

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 8:30 am

The worldwide market for combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones is expected to total 2.4 billion units in 2013, rising to nearly 3 billion units by 2017. It ...
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HP Board Changes Mean Nothing

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 6:17 am

Two humiliated members of the board of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) left and Chairman Ray Lane stepped down but will remain on the board. These actions address legacy issues, but ...
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Ray Lane Out as HP Chairman, Shareholders Win

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 4:37 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is down on multiple news reports that its board is being shaken up. We would take the other side of this bet and call it good ...
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Apple Crushing Samsung in U.S. Mobile Market

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 12:51 pm

For the three months ending in February 2013, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) widened its lead over Samsung Electronics as the top smartphone OEM in the U.S. by nearly 4%. Apple ...
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Michael Dell Could Team with Blackstone

Posted: March 28, 2013 at 7:00 am

Michael Dell may not lose his job, even if his partnership with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners does not result in the intended takeover of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). ...
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The Sound and the Fury — Dell vs. Hurd

Posted: March 22, 2013 at 2:33 pm

The board of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) set a “go-shop” deadline for one minute after midnight tonight to see if the company could entice a bidder to compete with Dell ...
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Mark Hurd Moving to Dell?

Posted: March 21, 2013 at 7:00 am

If Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) can top an buyout offer by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners to buy Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), the private equity firm may have ...
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Why a New Dell Buyout?

Posted: March 20, 2013 at 6:22 am

Financial firm Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) may make a offer to take Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) private, an offer that would be higher than one from Michael Dell and Silver Lake. ...
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BlackBerry CEO Derides Apple — Australian Financial Review

Posted: March 18, 2013 at 10:55 am

In an exclusive interview with The Australian Financial Review, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) CEO Thorsten Heins took a swipe at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the venerable iOS operating system. Heins ...
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Price Cut for Kindle Fire Tied to European, Japanese Launch

Posted: March 13, 2013 at 2:15 pm

Thanks to today’s launch of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch tablet from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) in five European countries and Japan, Amazon claims that now “it is able to ...
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Lenovo Eyes BlackBerry for Expansion in Mobile Devices

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 7:10 am

Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker, is once again hinting it might like to own BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). Given the battered Canadian company's results, it is hard to see the appeal. ...
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Dell, Icahn Go Behind Closed Doors

Posted: March 11, 2013 at 9:10 am

In a terse press release this morning, Carl Icahn’s Icahn Enterprises L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP) said that it has entered a confidentiality agreement with Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and “looks forward ...
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Rethinking A CDW Re-IPO, The Case For Growth

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 1:22 pm

If you are a computer and technology buyer, then chances are high that you know CDW. The company is mostly online and sells computers, monitors, networking gear, software, and a myriad ...
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