Michael Dell throws support behind company CEO
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Dell Inc. DELL.O Chairman Michael   Dell on Tuesday threw his support behind Chief Executive Kevin   Rollins and promised the computer maker was "working   diligently" to resolve its mounting problems.
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ on Thursday announced that Michael Cannon, the current president and CEO of electronics maker Solectron, will head a newly formed group that will oversee much of the company's operations, including manufacturing, procurement and suppliers. Cannon's appointment is the latest sign of a management shakeup underway at Dell, and underscores the seriousness of the challenges facing the company. Paul Tufano succeeds Cannon and will serve as interim CEO while the company searches for a permanent replacement. Once the PC industry's superstar, Dell has struggled in recent quarters. The companyÂ lost its title of world's largest PC vendorÂ to a resurgent Hewlett-Packard. The company also faces scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission intoÂ its accounting practices, which forced the company to delay filing its financial results for the second and third quarters of 2006. In addition, Dell last yearÂ recalled millions of defective laptop batteries, after they were determined to pose a potential fire risk to customers. In a bid to turn things around, Dell CEOÂ Kevin Rollins was replaced last monthÂ by Michael Dell, the company's chairman. Dell's return was accompanied by warnings that the company's financial results for the fourth quarter, to be announced March 1, will fall below analyst expectations. Cannon, who was president and CEO of hard-disk maker MaxtorÂ -- now part of Seagate TechnologyÂ -- before joining Solectron, will be responsible for improving Dell's manufacturing operations after he starts work on Feb, 26. His job includes the responsibility for opening factories that are closer to customers and improving the company's supply chain, Dell said, noting that plans are underway to add new factories in India, Poland and Brazil. The ultimate goal, according to Dell, is to improve product quality while shortening manufacturing times and reducing costs. Â
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Dell CEO continues shaking up his struggling company by hiring another outsider for his leadership team.
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Dell president and CEO Kevin Rollins indicated that the company is actively considering including AMD processors in its server roster in the foreseeable future.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS  Dell Inc., battered by battery recalls and disappointing earnings, said Wednesday that Chairman Michael Dell will return to run the company he had built into one of the world's largest makers of personal computers.  Dell's appointment is effective immediately.
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Regardless of the outcome of the Dell shareholders' class-action lawsuit against their company, the task before the once and future CEO of Dell Computer is gargantuan: to restore customer faith in the nation's #1 brand, and the world's #2 brand, in computers.
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Since its release in early 2003, AMD&#39;s Opteron server CPU has made great inroads almost everywhere... except with Dell. The CEO of Dell, Kevin Rollins, says that may very well be about to change, as the company
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Dell Inc.  has made progress  in its turnaround efforts but still has &quot;a long way to go&quot; to  spur personal computer sales and regain lost market share,  Chief Executive Michael Dell said on Tuesday.
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Dell Inc. Chairman and founder Michael Dell defended his successor's work at the world's largest PC maker Tuesday, saying his hand-picked successor, Kevin Rollins, isn't solely to blame for the company's recent missteps.
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Michael Dell's return as chief executive officer of Dell Inc. may have appeased analyst demands for now, but they say he faces an enormous, long-term challenge in fixing nagging problems that have plagued the computer maker.
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Michael Dell plans to remain the chief  executive of Dell Inc.  for "several years," he said in  an e-mail sent to the company on Friday afternoon and posted on  the Web site of the Austin American-Statesman newspaper.
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Analysis: Customers and the industry give Dell credit for reinventing itself, but support and supply issues linger.
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Dell Inc. will pay its former chief executive a severance package including $5 million in cash over the next two years, the computer maker disclosed Tuesday.  Kevin Rollins stepped down on Jan. 31 and was replaced by founder Michael Dell.
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Two and a half years afterÂ handing the chief executive title to his hand-picked successor, Kevin Rollins, Michael Dell is again running the company he founded.
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By Kevin Maney  Michael Dell believes his company's problem is bureaucracy?    Yikes. That's like Iraq thinking its problem is a lack of tourists.    Last week, Michael reclaimed the CEO title at the personal computer company he founded, Dell.
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA(R)) announced today that Michael Dell, the top executive from Dell Inc., will deliver a keynote address at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES(R)), joining an impressive keynote line-up for the 2007 show.
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Dell Inc.  has hired  Solectron Corp.  Chief Executive Michael Cannon to the  newly created position of president of global operations, as  the No. 2 personal computer maker seeks to retake market share  from Hewlett-Packard Co.