NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalization proposal for Dell Inc, banking sources told Thomson ReuFull story
While discussing her efforts to turn around Hewlett-Packard Co. in a Wednesday conference call, CEO Meg Whitman assured analysts she is determined to outmaneuver rivals such as Dell Inc. Full story
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In a wide-ranging interview, Henry Blodget, Business Insider CEO & editor-in-chief; and Steve Bertoni, Forbes associate editor, discuss a variety of topics, from Yahoo's move to buy Tumblr; Dell's takeover battle; to the IRS tax targeting scandal.
CNBC's Jon Fortt has Dell's quarterly numbers. Carr Lanphier, Morningstar, offers his perspective too.
It's a complicated deal at first glance, but really it boils down to how much faith current shareholders have in Dell's future, reports CNBC's Kate Kelly.
Carl Icahn is taking direct aim at Dell and Silverlake's $13.65 offer to take the company private, with Carr Lanphier, analyst at Morningstar, and CNBC's Herb Greenberg.
Carl Icahn and Dell's largest independent shareholder, Southeastern will challenge founder Michael Dell's bid to take the struggling computer firm private, with CNBC's Scott Wapner.
Michael Dell Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc. arrives at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York, in this October 25, 2012 file photo. Dell Inc's board is bending over backward to prevent any appearance of conflicts of interest as the founder and Chief Executive tries to lead a buyou
Michael Dell Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc. arrives at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York, in this October 25, 2012 file photo. The money that private equity firm Silver Lake could receive if its $24.4 billion deal with Michael Dell to take private the eponymous PC maker fall
A man pushes a trolley full of Dell computers through a company factory in Sriperumbudur Taluk, in the Kancheepuram district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, in this June 2, 2011 file photograph. Personal computer sales plunged 14 percent in the first three months of the year, the biggest
Dave Johnson , senior vice president of Corporate Strategy for Dell Inc, smiles during the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York May 18, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
