Jeff Burt

The latest agreement between Michael Dell and the special committee charged with steering the PC maker’s future should be enough for the CEO to get the necessary shareholder votes to buy the company and take it private, according to industry observers. It also should be enough to keep activist investor Carl Icahn at bay, despite […]

Michael Dell’s efforts to buy his namesake company and take it private got a significant boost Aug. 2 when he and the special committee negotiating for Dell’s board agreed on a revised deal that increases the money offered to shareholders and changing voting rules in the CEO’s favor. Michael Dell and financial backer Silver Lake […]

Apple, which is among a growing number of tech vendors moving into the increasingly competitive field of wearable technology, reportedly took another step in that direction when it bought Passif Semiconductor, which builds low-power communications chips. News of Apple’s acquisition came from former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin, who said the company had bought […]

Juniper Networks is rolling out a ruggedized networking platform that officials say will offer the types of protections from harsh environments that will become increasingly important as machine-to-machine Internet traffic grows. The LN2600 Rugged Secure Router is an all-in-one networking platform—it includes routing, switching and security capabilities in a single system—that is built to withstand […]

The battle over Dell’s future, which has been waged through the media and in meetings with shareholders, is moving into the courts after billionaire investor Carl Icahn sued the company to prevent it from changing the conditions of CEO Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion bid to buy the PC maker. In a statement released Aug. 1, […]

Zoom Video Communications entered the highly competitive video conferencing market a year ago with a cloud-based offering that included a service for multi-party meetings. According to Zoom officials, the company now has almost 2 million participants, 5,500 meetings per day and 100 million meetings to its credit. Now, the company is looking to partners to […]

Carl Icahn, on the heels of the Dell special committee’s rejection of Michael Dell’s latest $26.6 billion proposal to take the company private, is pushing to have the shareholder vote on the plan go ahead as scheduled on Aug. 2 rather than postpone it for a third time. The billionaire and top Dell investor, who […]

The special committee overseeing Dell’s future has rejected CEO Michael Dell’s request to change the voting rules for his $24.6 billion bid for the company, a damaging blow to his desire to buy the namesake firm and take it private. However, in a letter sent to Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners […]

Intel’s upcoming TV service will record a massive amount of content and store it in the cloud, but it won’t include a camera that will be peering back at the viewer. Intel officials plan to begin selling a set-top box and services later this year that will let users receive live and recorded programming over […]

Nvidia officials are making another move in the high-performance computing space, buying software compiler and toolmaker The Portland Group. Nvidia announced the deal July 30, though no financial details were released. The Oregon-based Portland Group (PGI) was founded in 1989 and offers compilers, debuggers and development tools for the increasingly competitive high-performance computing (HPC) industry, […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out another low-power chip aimed at the embedded market, the latest move by the company to expand the reach of its embedded and semi-custom efforts and reduce its reliance on the shrinking traditional PC market. The new GX-210JA, announced July 30, is the latest addition to the line of low-power […]

Dell, just days after Google introduced its Chromecast “dongle” users can plug into televisions to get streaming content, reportedly has begun beta shipments of its own mini device, dubbed Project Ophelia. First introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show 2013 in January, Ophelia is slightly larger than a USB storage device and, when inserted, can turn […]