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Michael Dell is expected to take majority ownership of the world's third-largest personal computer maker.
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's quarter numbers were lifted by strong sales to corporate customers.
Dell will deploy the earmarked $2.57 million to 10 institutions in the country working toward child labour rehabilitation, educating daughters of sex workers and an initiative to impart information on climate change. Dell YouthConnect plans five pilot projects in India with NGOs, with up to $500,000 of funding in the first year.
"Dell is developing new models of notebooks catering for the customers in India," Dell India Vice President and General Manager Rajan Anandan said adding that the new models would hit the market by the second week of April. Though he declined to disclose any further details about the firms retail plans, a Dell India official said the company was in advanced stage of negotiation with interested firms in India. In India, Dell follows its traditional model of selling.
Seeking to enhance its share in the Chinese market, Dell Inc has announced the launch of Direct2Dell Chinese blog site, becoming the first computer systems company to open a corporate blog in Mandarin.
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.
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.
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US computer maker Dell Inc plans to extend its business in India but would use Malaysia as the hub for capturing the Asian market.
Dell Inc. is facing the wrath of Chinese netizens following reports that a Dell salesperson sent an e-mail discouraging former IBM clients in America from buying products made by Chinese IT giant, Lenovo, which recently acquired the personal computer
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.
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.
While Dell has grown its business quite rapidly in India, one needs to be used to the ups and downs in the market place in the country, said the chief executive.
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.
The company hopes to revive its fortune with the move
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Dell, which once led the world in computer sales and was held up as a model of production-chain innovation, is increasingly resorting to price cuts to soothe customers nervous about its future and to spearhead a late foray into the enterprise computing market.
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