Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake?
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After a year of sluggish growth, financial disappointments and a high-profile safety recall, re-engineering the Dell model will be a daunting challenge.
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It turns out that Dell (DELL) isn't the only longtime commodity PC vendor looking to make build a new name for itself among high-end PCs users and the gaming set.
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Dell Inc., battered by battery recalls and disappointing earnings, said yester day that chairman Michael Dell will return to run the company he built into one of the world's largest makers of personal computers.
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InfoWorld - After eight years at the company, Kevin Rollins was appointed president and CEO of the &#36;41.4 billion computer juggernaut Dell Computer last July. Many still think of Dell as a desktop supplier, but the company has become a powerhouse in server and notebooks as well and is making strong moves in the printer and storage markets.
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The possibility of layoffs at Dell Inc raised its head on Friday, with a leaked memo indicating that returning chief executive Michael Dell wants to restructure his way out of the company's problems.
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Ask.com's Senior User Experience Analyst Michael Ferguson continues his discussion of the company's rebranding, offering tips and suggestions for anyone considering updating or modifying a web site.
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Returning Dell CEO Michael Dell continued a shakeup of his company by naming a Motorola executive to his leadership team.
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Michael Dell's return as chief executive of the computer maker he founded 23 years ago is unlikely to fix a company quickly that stumbled under ex-CEO Kevin Rollins, analysts said on Thursday.
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Dell CEO Michael Dell hinted Monday that his company could be shopping for more acquisition targets, and that they could be larger than the companies it has acquired to date.Speaking in Tokyo at a news conference, Dell made the comments after giving his views on a recent run of acquisitions in the PC market, such as the&#160;purchase of Gateway by Taiwan&#39;s Acer.&quot;I think the pace of consolidation will increase,&quot; he said. &quot;It think that it favors the larger companies, particularly as the growth is skewed towards emerging countries. In the last two years Dell has acquired five companies, two related to the consumer business, one related to software, and two related to services. These have all been relatively small companies but I would not be surprised if the nature and pace of acquisitions increases somewhat.&quot;He added that his company had looked at Gateway when it was available but decided against purchasing the company.Dell was in Tokyo to launch the company&#39;s &quot;simplify IT&quot; program. It aims to cut corporate IT management costs, thus freeing up spending for use on new computers and servers. He estimated that 70 percent of IT spending at Japanese companies over the next year will be related to maintenance of old systems and management and only 30 percent on new hardware.&quot;We need to flip that 70/30,&quot; he said.On the consumer side of Dell&#39;s business the company has recently begun&#160;offering PCs through retailers&#160;-- a break with its successful direct sales model. With a handful of retailers already selling its systems, Dell said more are on the way.&quot;The first steps that we have taken with the partners mentioned earlier are really just that, first steps,&quot; he said. &quot;So I think you can expect over the next several quarters or year or two, that in all major countries around the world like Japan, Korea, China, India, U.S., France, U.K., Russia, etc., you would see Dell having a small number of key partnerships which allow consumers to purchase Dell products at retail. It&#39;s really about making our products available in more places.&quot;&quot;I believe we can grow the direct business both on telephone and online and I believe we can grow a channel, a partner business. And we are also working very hard to extend the capabilities that Dell has to our channel partners,&quot; he said.Looking ahead, Dell promised new x86-architecture based products during his speech at Oracle Open World on Nov. 14. The products, which he didn&#39;t detail, will have &quot;breakthrough performance and power capability relative to others in the industry.
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IBMÂ executives looking for a buyer for their company's PC business most likely did not spend time in Round Rock, Texas. Speaking at a press conference at OpenWorld on Tuesday, Dell founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said that his company's U.S. facilities give them an edge against other North American vendors.
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Michael S. Dell has taken back the leadership of the computer company he founded, replacing Kevin B. Rollins.
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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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New research indicates that many household names of the IT industry, including Dell and Microsoft, have been able to capture lasting feelings of customer loyalty.
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Dell CEO Michael Dell hinted Monday that his company could be shopping for more acquisition targets, and that they could be larger than the companies it has acquired to date.
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By MATT SLAGLE DALLAS - Flamingo pink laptops, anyone? Computer maker Dell Inc. is hoping its image as a stodgy maker of desktop and notebook computers is about to end, and it's banking on some new color options and designs to do the trick.
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Dell Inc.  is leaving the LCD  television business to focus on its core PC products amid an  ongoing company overhaul by founder Michael Dell, Taiwan media  reported on Thursday.
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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.