PC-maker Hewlett-Packard rose after forecasting fiscal third-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates on cost cuts aimed at countering sl(...)

Activist investor Carl Icahn (above)  and major stakeholder Southeastern Asset Management dismiss Michael Dell’s go-private deal for Dell as too cheap for a company trying to become a major provider of enterprise computing. Photograph: Chad Batka/The New York Times

Dell, the subject of a takeover battle between activist investor Carl Icahn and the company’s billionaire founder, reported a 79 per cent slide(...)

Carl Icahn: has  proposed an alternative to a $24.4 billion buyout deal led by founder Michael Dell.

Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, two of Dell’s biggest shareholders, have proposed an alternative to a $24.4 bil(...)

Old computer monitors being recycled in Beijing, China, this week. First-quarter shipments of PCs fell 14 per cent worldwide from the same time last year, according to International Data Corporation - the deepest quarterly drop since the firm started tracking the industry in 1994. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

The ailing personal computer market is getting weaker and starting to look as though it will never fully recover as a new generation of mo(...)

We have become used to Moore’s law, originally advanced by Dell’s Gordon E Moore way back in 1965, which says that computing power roughly dou(...)

A final decision on the adjustment of Ireland and Portugal’s bailout loans will not be reached until the May meeting of Europe(...)

The Department of Finance has linked up with Microsoft and Dell to hold a fully paperless meeting of European Union ministers and governors as part(...)

James Whelton: CoderDojo founder

More than 200 coding mentors and kid coders are expected to gather in Slane Castle at the weekend for the second annual CoderDojo conference. (...)

Dell sell-off: the board has said it will seek the best possible offer for the company. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Dell said it is willing to reimburse billionaire Carl Icahn for expenses he incurs in the process of bidding for the computer maker. Mr (...)

It was a good day for Paddy Power, with shares rising 0.9 per cent to €69.85, a near all-time high. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

Global equity markets and crude oil rose yesterday after more data pointed to an improving US economy, helping to offset intensified worries ab(...)

Browse by Publication Date

«
MTWTFSS
»