Dell’s Kansas City Shuffle

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From The Average Joe Investor

Kansas City Shuffle – a deception move characterised by causing the victim to look right as you attack on the left.

Right up front I’m going to say that I’m a Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) shareholder. As I read through a lot of the news coverage, one thing in particular continues to jump out at me. It’s that nobody fails to hang on the fact that HP (NYSE: HPQ) has taken over the number one PC spot from Dell.

While I can understand the importance of this fact, the way I see it is that if I’m going to get a return on my investment in Dell, it’s going to be about more than just selling more PCs. HP, Acer, Lenovo, Gateway, etc, etc all can see Dell head on in the PC market. I’m hoping Mike Dell has some ideas that’ll catch everyone by surprise and brings Dell back to being a stock worth talking about.

Who saw the iPod coming?

-AvgJoe

http://www.theaveragejoeinvestor.com/

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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