ROUND ROCK — Dell Inc. will end its quarter-century history as a publicly traded company and try to engineer a turnaround away from the prying eyes of Wall Street following shareholders’ approval Thursday of a $24.8 billion buyout offer from ...

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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is giving up his bitter takeover fight for Dell Inc. a few days before shareholders are scheduled to consider the latest buyout offer from the struggling computer maker’s founder Michael Dell. Icahn said Monday in a ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Dell’s woes worsened during its most recent quarter as the slumping personal computer maker resorted to rampant price cutting to slow a sales decline driven by a growing reliance on smartphones and tablets to connect to the ...

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Just when it looked as if he might be vanquished, Dell CEO Michael Dell has regained the advantage in the lengthy battle to buy the slumping personal computer maker that he founded nearly 30 years ago.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Dell’s board rejected CEO Michael Dell’s attempt to change the voting rules for his bid to buy the slumping personal computer maker, a decision that is likely to doom the deal. But the endangered buyout could still ...

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ROUND ROCK, Texas — A group led by Dell’s founder raised its offer for the struggling computer maker on Thursday in hopes of attracting more shareholder support for its plan to take the company private. The 10-cent per share increase ...

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NEW YORK — A top proxy advisory firm is recommending that Dell shareholders vote in favor of a deal that would allow the company’s founder and an investment firm to buy the computer maker and take it private. Michael Dell ...

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The Dell board is standing behind a buyout offer from the company’s CEO and founder, and it has asked shareholders of the slumping PC maker to approve the deal in a July 18 vote. The company’s announcement Friday is the ...

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Dell Inc. and Carl Icahn have agreed to cap his stake in the personal computer maker while the panel considers competing takeover bids from the billionaire investor, a group led by CEO Michael Dell and buyout specialist Blackstone Group. The ...

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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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