Dell is in the process of launching low cost personal computer at about 238 dollar (Rs 10,000) across the world, including India.
Betting big on India, global PC maker Dell on Tuesday said it has taken the first lead in putting India on the map of branded computer exporting nations.
Michael Dell struck a deal to take Dell Inc private for $24.4 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis, partnering with the Silver Lake private equity firm and Microsoft Corp to try to turn around the struggling computer company without Wall Street scrutiny.
Dell simultaneously is building a new distribution channel for smartphones and partnering with telecom service providers to promote its products.
This is Dell's third plant in Asia Pacific after China and Malaysia. Dell had earlier this year launched a facility in Brazil and another one in Poland will be opened later this year.
Computer maker Dell said it has agreed to pay $100 million in a settlement with US regulator Securities Exchange Commission following a probe into the company's accounting methods and its relationship with chipmaker Intel Corp.
Computer major Dell on Wednesday announced the opening of its third customer contact centre in the country with 300 employees, at Chandigarh, to support its growing global customer base.
Dell expects its India revenues moving toward $1-billion mark soon.
The world's largest personal computer vendor, Dell opened its third contact centre in Mohali on Monday and plans to take the headcount at the facility to 1,500 in the next 12 months.
Revenue, however, grew just 1 per cent to $15.01 billion in the reporting period, compared to $14.87 billion in Q1, FY'11.
Computer maker Dell expects to double the company's headcount in India to 20,000 over the next three years, its Founder and Chairman Michael S Dell said on Monday.
Dell, the most profitable computer maker in the world, announced on Friday that its Indian operations will employ close to 10,000 people by the end of the current year.
The company's revenues also slipped four per cent to $14.42 billion in Q1 FY'13 from $15.01 billion in 2012.
It's free cash flow over the past 12 months was more than $3 billion.
Personal computer maker Dell will be closing down one of its manufacturing plant in the US early next year, a move that will affect nearly 905 jobs.
Computer maker Dell has reported 18 per cent drop in net profit to USD 732 million in the May-July quarter of this fiscal, which saw 30 per cent dip in India revenues -- sharpest fall in the Asia Pacific region.
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Michael Dell clinched shareholder approval on Thursday for his $25 billion offer to buy and take Dell Inc private, ending months of conflict with the company's largest investors and removing the uncertainty surrounding the world's No. 3 PC maker.
This year, Dell will launch new smartphone models and venture into the printers segment to cement its position as a hardware company in India.While the company believes that the biggest growth driver in 2011 will be smartphones, it is also eyeing the enterprise and small business segment with the launch of eight new printers.
With the first Dell personal computers going on sale in Wal-Mart Stores in the US and Puerto Rico, the $56 billion company is reportedly planning to sell its PCs through retail stores in Asia (including India) and Australia.
Global computer major Dell on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with Tamil Nadu government to set up its first manufacturing plant to make desktop PCs in the Special Economic Zone near Sriperumbudur.
Buoyed by strong demand from the corporate and small-and-medium business (SMB) sectors in India, Dell Inc, the world's No. 2 computer maker, said on Tuesday that it would be doubling the production capacity of its lone plant in India from 4 lakh to about 1 million units per annum. In a move to achieve this, the company announced the manufacture of a wide range of laptop lines at the Sriperumbudur plant near Chennai.
As many as 40 companies, including Dell, HP, and Lenovo, have applied for the IT hardware PLI scheme with a commitment to make personal computers, laptops, tablets, servers and other equipment worth Rs 4.65 lakh crore during the scheme period, an official statement said on Thursday. If all companies get selected under the scheme then the government will need to increase the incentive amount to Rs 22,890 crore against the budgetary allocation of Rs 17,000 crore, according to the note. "Total 40 applications have been submitted till the closure of the window on August 30.
Dell Inc, a leading direct seller of computers, is shifting technical support for its business customers from Bangalore to the United States following complaints about difficulty in understanding the accents of its Indian staff.
As a part of this strategy, the company is rolling out its first brand campaign in India roping in real-life business heros and entrepreneurs to endorse its products, especially targeting the small and medium businesses. This is in a slight change in its marketing strategy which was earlier largely focussed on the large enterprises.
Dell on Friday said that it will begin manufacturing all of its products including desktops, laptops and computer peripherals in India by the second half of 2007.
Actor-model Rohit Khandelwal made India proud by becoming the first Asian, Indian to win Mr World 2016 title.
The government on Thursday imposed import restrictions on laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal computers, ultra small form factor computers, and servers with immediate effect. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in a notification said exemption from import licensing is provided up to 20 items per consignment for R&D, testing, benchmarking and evaluation, repair and return and product development purposes.
The India personal computer (PC) market shipment, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, dropped by an overall 30.1 per cent in the first quarter of CY2023 over the previous year, to only 2.99 million units, according to the latest data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker released on Tuesday. In Q1CY23, while the demand for desktops was positive, the notebook category witnessed another weak quarter as it declined by 40.8 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y). The consumer segment declined by 36.1 per cent y-o-y primarily due to slowing demand and weak market sentiment.
'I was in the US, where I met top executives of HP and Dell, and they are very keen to come to India.' 'Acer and ASUS have also evinced interest.'
A new plant in Chennai could help the PC maker catch up with rivals in a market that's the computer world's Next Big Thing.
'Customers will end up pre-buying laptops, even at inflated rates. The same is true for second-hand and refurbished pieces that a company's authorised stores sell.'
'As long as ASUS continues to introduce new products into the market, we still have a chance to grow our business in India.'
Apple was a fringe player in all key categories like smartphones, notebooks, and tablets till recently. But with the last quarter's record-breaking performance, the brand has established itself in the country's price-sensitive consumer electronics market.
India's traditional PC market, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations declined by 11.7 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in Q3CY22 (Jul-Sep) after 8 consecutive quarters of growth despite strong shipments of 3.9 million units, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. All segments declined except the government, which grew by 91.5 per cent YoY on the back of government orders, leading to strong growth in the third consecutive quarter. While the desktop and workstation categories grew by 23.4 per cent and 17.6 per cent YoY respectively, the notebook category declined by 19.5 per cent YoY.
'As long as businesses do not consider cyber recovery an integral part of their enterprise IT, they remain greatly vulnerable.'
It looks like IBM is betting on Vaswani to replicate the success he had with Dell
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