SAN FRANCISCO — Dell’s largest independent shareholder is leaning toward supporting one of the two bidders trying to scuttle the slumping personal computer maker’s proposed $24.4 billion sale to a group including CEO Michael Dell. Southeastern Asset Management expressed its ...

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Michael Dell may have to hike the price he’s willing to pay if he wants to take the computer company he founded private, thanks to competition from two new acquisition offers. A special committee of independent Dell Inc. directors said ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. orders for machinery and other factory goods that signal business investment surged in January, indicating confidence in the economy. The Commerce Department said Wednesday orders for so-called core capital goods, which also include equipment and computers, rose ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Slumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since the Great Recession dried up the financing for such risky maneuvers. ...

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NEW YORK — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will move production of one of its existing lines of Mac computers to the United States next year. Industry watchers said the announcement is both a cunning public-relations move and ...

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Micros Systems Inc., of Columbia, a provider of computer systems to the hospitality and retail industries, announced that Peter Altabef, the former president of Dell Services, has been elected to succeed A.L. “Tom” Giannopoulos as its president and CEO, effective Jan. 2, 2013.

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NEW YORK — Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Thursday called the new Windows 8 operating system scheduled for release next month “a very exciting new product” and “a very big deal” for the world’s largest software maker. Gates said in ...

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WASHINGTON — Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago. ...

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WASHINGTON — Companies placed more orders with U.S. factories in May from April, demanding more computers, machinery and other equipment that signal investment plans. The increase is a welcome sign after two months of declining factory orders. Still, factory orders ...

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NEW YORK — For decades, the tablet computer was like a mirage in the technology industry: a great idea, seemingly reachable on the horizon, that disappointed as hopeful companies got closer. Microsoft has experienced this cycle of hope and disappointment ...

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