Flowers, Soros, Michael Dell team to buy IndyMac

A seven-member investor group including billionaire George Soros and Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell have agreed to purchase failed lender IndyMac Bank, one of the largest casualties of the housing bust, for $13.9 billion.

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New Dell executive got compensation valued at $33M

Michael Dell received compensation that the computer company he founded valued at just under $2 million last year, when he returned as CEO, but the leader of Dell Inc.'s consumer business received more than $33 million.

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Dell E-Mail Details Corporate Reforms

In a memo to Dell Inc. employees days after returning as chief executive officer, Michael Dell said the beleaguered computer maker is quashing bonuses for 2006 and reducing managers to help cut costs and steer the company back toward dominance.

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Dell Returns to CEO Role at PC Maker

Michael Dell's return as chief executive officer of Dell Inc. may have appeased analyst demands for now, but they say he faces an enormous, long-term challenge in fixing nagging problems that have plagued the computer maker.

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Dell Defends Rollins' Work at PC Maker

Dell Inc. Chairman and founder Michael Dell defended his hand-picked successor's work at the world's largest PC maker Tuesday, saying Kevin Rollins isn't solely to blame for the company's recent missteps.

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Dell CEO Shrugs Off Recent Stock Tumbles

Dell Inc. founder and chairman Michael Dell, responding to concerns about his company's recent stock declines, said Thursday he remains confident in the direct-sales model that helped create the world's largest PC maker.

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Forbes released its list of the world's billionaires and it looks like the U.S. tech billionaires took a pretty hefty hit from the economic crisis.

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DAVOS, Switzerland (Fortune) -- Ever since Vladimir Putin rose to power in 2000, his political opponents and entire countries have learned to their cost that he has a tough, demeaning streak. Wednesday it was Michael Dell's turn.

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Gaining membership to the billionaire wives' club is no easy feat. Today, there are just 110 eligible 10-figure bachelors, including divorced men, in the world.

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This 4th of July 2008 may be the last time many of us Americans may ever feel happy about the 4th of July Independence Day meaning ...

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Another reminder that what goes around comes around

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Many people were shocked to see Gates knocked from his No. 1 ranking after 10 years atop Forbes' list of the world's billionaires. (With a net worth of $58 billion, Gates currently ranks third behind Buffett and Mexican telecom baron Carlos Slim.)

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Bill Gates & long time humaniatarian tag partner Bono are at it again, this time with Michael Dell. Using the whole idea of teaching someone how to fish, but in this case farm!

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Dell may no longer be the darling of the PC industry, but a tiny gadget could do wonders to help it win back the hearts of mainstream consumers.

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It's easy to dump ire on anlysts for getting it wrong so often. What those guys do, however, is provide a particular service to particular people. Interpreting what analysts say in terms of truth or falsity is to forget the real lesson we should take from Prof.

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It was 10 years ago that Michael Dell, speaking before several thousand technology executives at ITxpo97 in Orlando, answered a question about what he would do if he were CEO of Apple with a remark he probably instantly regretted:

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Computer maker Dell will reduce more than four years' worth of earnings by up to $US150 million ($A183.52 million) after an internal probe found the company misled its auditors and manipulated results to meet performance goals.

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On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he'd do if he was in charge of Apple Computer, Dell founder and then CEO Michael Dell stood before a crowd of several thousand IT executives and answered flippantly, "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back …

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Two titans of the new economy—founders of Apple and Dell—clashed at an education conference earlier this year in Texas. Steve Jobs and Michael Dell were discussing technology and school reform when Jobs disturbed the usual pallid comity of these sorts of events.

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Dell is rumored to be exiting the HDTV business by the end of this month, a little under four years after it first entered the market to diversify its product portfolio, according to Taiwanese business newspaper Economic Daily.

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While the news that over the short-term Dell outperformed analysts' expectations was good, it may be the last good news for the company for a long time.

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Dell today leaked a memo to the press, hoping to prove that it's serious about making a strong comeback.

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ho says the people aren't in power? Not long at all after customers voiced their demands to have Linux pre-loaded across a wider spectrum of Dell machines, the company caved, and as we sit and ponder just what flavor of Linux will soon be available, we can't help but guess Ubuntu.

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Having Michael Dell back at the helm of his namesake company hasn't paid any quick dividends when it comes to market share. According to Gartner Research, Dell continued its slide both in the US and worldwide during the first quarter of 2007, while HP opened up an even-wider  …

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In our newest ranking, Chinese PC maker Lenovo displaces Nokia from the lead position it enjoyed since the Guide was launched.

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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions Friday, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers. Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs.

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Dell's latest launch has really taken off. Unfortunately for Dell's crumbling profitability, it's a website called IdeaStorm, not a new PC.

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Last week it was the music labels, this week it was teacher unions.

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Dell has apparently been waiting for AMD to prove themselves, and it appears as though AMD has finally done so. Therefore, Dell will be releasing their first AMD-based desktop computers tomorrow.

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Dell on Tuesday pulled the veil off its first desktop PCs based on processors from Advanced Micro Devices and said the maiden AMD-based systems, the Dimension C521 and Dimension E521, will ship later this week.

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