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- Revenue
- Feb 01 2008
- $61.1B
- Profit
- Feb 01 2008
- $2.9B
- Market Cap
- May 09 2008
- $38.8B
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National City Raising $7 Billion; Shares Sink on Loss
By Paritosh Bansal NEW YORK (Reuters) - National City Corp (NCC), a large U.S. Midwest bank, said on Monday it is raising $7 billion and slashed its dividend after mortgage and home equity problems led to its third straight quarterly loss. The bank's...
Dell Sells $1.5 Billion in Three Parts: Source
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dell Inc (DELL) on Monday sold $1.5 billion of debt in three parts, said a source familiar with the transaction. The sale consisted of $600 million five-year notes priced to yield 2.12 percentage points more than U.S. Treasuries; $500...
How Web Advertisers Can Avoid Being Ripped Off
A question for Web advertisers: Do you get what you pay for? If you answered yes, you might be a little hasty in that opinion, especially if you use an online affiliate program to generate sales. You may be paying referral fees for business you would...
Dell Pioneers A New Type of PR/Ad Agency
Throughout its history, Dell Corp. has been an innovator. This week, the company turned its attention to the world of advertising and PR and announced an innovation that is already sending shock waves through the marketing sector. Dell announced that it would consolidate its $1.5 billion per...
Should You Buy a Refurbished PC?
Should You Buy a Refurbished PC?Bought several. No problems.We've bought several Apple refurbs, both desktops and Mac Books with never a problem. I agree sometimes you actually get a better unit as it has been looked over closely. At times they have also come with more memory or larger HD...
Dell Accounting Probe Resolved: Battle of the PC Makers Continues
Yesterday Dell announced the results of its year long accounting probe and admitted that finance staff misstated earnings in order to meet quarterly performance targets. The company will now have to restate four years worth of earnings and has already taken steps to fire or reassign those involved in the...
The Secret to Becoming an Industry Leader
What happens when a company straddles two industries, profiting in one arena and struggling in the other? That was Hewlett-Packard's story a couple years back -- its printing business paid the bills while Dell took the lead in PC sales. Then-CEO Carly Fiorina (responsible for the ill-fated Compaq purchase) responded...
Can Dell Compete on Colorful Computers?
Dell has decided that Midnight Blue will save it from losing more ground in the PC market. Midnight Blue, Spring Green, and Jet Black. Those three of the eight new colors that will wrap Dell's first significant product launch in its fight to reclaim its former PC glory. The Inspiron...
Dude, Dell Won't Stop Selling TV's
You may have heard that Dell plans to stop selling LCD TV's. (Industry blogs went nuts yesterday when Taiwan's Economic Daily newspaper reported that Dell would discontinue its line of LCD TV's.) In light of the massive restructuring at the company, the claim sounds like it may have some reasonable...
Daily Dispatch: Ford, Dow Jones, Dell, Incomes Decline
For the seventh straight month, Ford Motor Company's sales dropped in May, largely because of a 24 percent decline in sales to rental car companies and a 12 percent slide in sales of F-series pickup trucks. The F-series, the nation's best-selling vehicle, has also shown a seven-month decline...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Dell, Upper Deck, Coke, and Online Ads
Dell said today that it would start selling personal computers at 3,000 Wal-Mart stores in the United States and Canada starting next month. This would be Dell's first foray at selling PCs through traditional retailers. Dell, clamoring to regain its position as the world's No. 1 PC maker,...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Dell, Bausch & Lomb, Amazon, and Blackstone
The New York State Attorney General has sued Dell over consumer complaints against the computer maker. The suit contends that Dell engaged in deceptive financing practices by misleading customers with enticing financing offers that carry many restrictions. The Attorney General's office wants an injunction against Dell's practices and...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Thomson, Dell, Microsoft, and Retail
Thomson announced that it will sell its educational textbook and academic testing businesses to raise money for the Reuters acquisition. London-based buyout firm Apax Partners will buy the companies for a total of $7.75 billion cash, which will contribute substantially to financing the $17.5 billion Reuters deal. Thomson shares rose...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Alcoa, Microsoft, ABN AMRO, and Motorola
Alcoa, the world's largest aluminum company, said today that it would make a hostile bid for Canada's Alcan Inc., estimated at $27 billion, after talks between the rivals stalled. If successful, the bid would create the world's largest producer of the metal that is used to make beverage cans, airplanes,...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Chrysler, Clear Channel, Dell, and Sony
Chrysler Group said it would invest $1.8 billion in new and expanded factories in Michigan to remain competitive. Earlier this month, DaimlerChrysler said that it's in talks to sell Chrysler after it lost $1.5 billion in 2006. Chrysler said it made the move becausIn hopes of wooing key investors, buyout...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Dell, Tribune, Man Group, and Consumer Spending
Dell said yesterday that an internal financial audit discovered evidence of misconduct, accounting errors, and deficiencies in its financial controls. In 2006, the SEC began investigating Dell's past accounting. Dell, still struggling after several disappointing quarters, said it has yet to determine whether to restate past earnings results....
Dell Computers for All of China (and Nobody Gets Canned)
Despite a hefty dose of skepticism, Dell today took the first step toward realizing the holy grail of PC revenue growth (and avoiding layoffs) -- it launched a new computer for the China market. It's called the EC280, and it's 69 percent cheaper than anything else on the company's China...
Can Dell Avoid the Layoff Bomb?
Dell Computer has been suffering slow sales and stubbornly high costs, and now the company may be considering a "reduction in workforce," according to the feature article from today's BusinessWeek. But there are other, less painful ways to improve operational efficiency. Since revenue-per-employee is the figure most...
Absence Management Aids Dell
And the rising incidence of absences and claims among the company's workforce was becoming a problem for Dell's sales, ordering and production departments, he said. Dell found that there was a lack of disability data integration in the company, that employees were confused about disability and leave processes, and that...
Banking a la Nike and Dell: Achieving Scale Without Acquisition Premiums
Lower growth rates, accelerating consolidation, and increasing pressure on margins are forcing many financial-services institutions to rethink their vertically integrated business models. The problem is how to enhance scale without traversing the minefield of mergers and having to pay the high premiums that acquisitions often require. This article indicates that...
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- Incorporated: 1984
- CEO: Mr. Michael S. Dell
Dell designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and support a range of computer systems and services that are customized to individual customer requirements, which include desktop personal computers, servers and networking products, storage, mobility products, and software and peripherals. Co. sells its products and services directly to customers through sales representatives, telephone-based sales, online at www.dell.com, and through a variety of indirect sales channels. Co.'s customers include corporate, government, healthcare, and education accounts, as well as small-to-medium businesses and individual consumers.
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Board of Directors
Mr. Michael S. Dell
Chairman
Mr. Michael A. Miles
Mr. Samuel A. Nunn Jr.
Mr. Donald J. Carty
Vice-Chairman
Mr. William H. Gray III
Ms. Sallie L. Krawcheck
Mr. Alan G. Lafley
Ms. Judy C. Lewent
Mr. Thomas W. Luce III
Mr. Klaus S. Luft
Mr. Alex J. Mandl
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Round Rock, TX
512 338-4400