Dell's Buyout Deal Could Finalize on Monday

[exfileme]

An announcement detailing the Dell buyout may be released on Monday.

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[ricardok]

I think AMD should go this route also. Just a private tech company with no shareholders giving orders.

 

[John15v17]

I think this is good for dell as well...kudos...

 

[ivanto]

On October 6, 1997, Michael Dell said about then-troubled Apple Computer - "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." (Today Apple is some X20 larger than Dell)

I guess, times changed and Michael is following parts of his own advice.
-IvanTO

 

[sync_nine]

"Silver Lake has secured up to $15 billion of dept financing from four investment banks"
Ahem Ahem.....Its "debt" financing...not dept

 

[belardo]

Can Microsoft afford to do this? They're stock is so very very low... its been tanking sine the release of Winblows 8... check out its stock history, since last November.... its bad.

 

[kinggremlin]

[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]Can Microsoft afford to do this? They're stock is so very very low... its been tanking sine the release of Winblows 8... check out its stock history, since last November.... its bad.[/citation]

Might want to look up the definition of bad. Microsoft increased it's cash holding by $5 billion in the last 6 months alone. They're currently sitting on a cash pile of $68 billion, and you're asking if they can afford 1-2 billion? Their stock price is irrelevant. They probably collected the money from seat cushions around the MS campus.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/24/microsoft-cash-reserves-grow-5-billion

 

[diddo]

And so it begins the agony of wintel only companies, now that w8 revealed its epic fail ms is doomed to not only reduce net profits like in last quarter, but also to pump its money in its crumbling allyes. Put all the eggs in a basket...

 

[susyque747]

Smaller non union private companies are always better. Profit sharing for the employees and no stock holders to pander to.

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

Even though it sounds like they plan to abandon the consumers here's hoping we get some nice hardware out of it.