Hints and tips:
...PC maker Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise will report after the bell. Consulting: The FT UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2024 report is out....
...The enterprise technology business that was split off from HP’s PCs and printers unit in 2015 has agreed to pay Juniper’s shareholders $40 per share in cash, representing a 32 per cent premium on the company...
...I'm very focused on trying to create a knowledge-based economy with high-wage jobs. That's why I'm betting on the semiconductor industry....
...The clash marks the first time Microsoft has faced off against the US over an antitrust case since the Department of Justice accused it of using illegal means to maintain its PC monopoly in the 1990s....
...PC maker Dell and chipmaker Broadcom also report....
...In the end, though, it all came down to two billionaires bent on clinching one of the world’s largest technology deals on record: Broadcom’s Hock Tan and Michael Dell of the eponymous PC maker, whose M&A...
...I’m James Kynge, the FT’s Global China editor. Edwin Lane is our senior producer....
...The top US antitrust enforcer told DD’s James Fontanella-Khan that the practice deserves more scrutiny....
...While China seems to dominate the Asian tech scene, I’m wondering whether Japan could make up some ground in the global chip rivalry (Smart data). See you next week!...
...The one-liners zing, the dialogue is a tennis match of witty banter, and the jokes and characterisation are often refreshingly non-PC....
...AMD has benefited from growth in data centres as well as among PCs and games consoles as consumers are forced to work, learn and play from home during the pandemic....
...“Sometimes I’m confident, sometimes I’m not. I’m like a lot of actors, by nature, I’m principally an introvert.” How ambitious is he? “Not nearly ambitious enough, probably.”...
...I’m delighted and very grateful that it’s now being donated to Tate. As part of the national collection, it can reach audiences right across the UK and beyond.”...
...ML: Yes, I don’t think I had a computer at that point apart from maybe the PC we inputted all the inventory on. I had a pay-as-you-go mobile phone. I probably had a Game Boy as well....
...Now Mr Visentin, with the backing of Mr Icahn, is pursuing one of the goriest M&A battles of the year: a very hostile and highly-leveraged $35bn bid for HP, a rival manufacturer of printers and PCs more...
...M&A manoeuvres Xerox escalated its $33bn hostile takeover bid for HP on Thursday, proposing a new set of directors in an attempt to force HP to the negotiating table....
...In recent years, Thoma Bravo has acquired cyber security group Imperva for $2.1bn, data visualisation company Qlik for about $3bn, as well as made a minority investment in PC antivirus software maker McAfee...
...Then there is the speculation surrounding Thomas Bravo’s interest in PC antivirus maker Symantec for about $10bn, or the attention Blackstone and Apollo are giving to the General Electric assets up for sale...
...A reminder also that directors including Sebastian James, the Dixons CEO at the time, along with Katie (now at M&S) Bickerstaffe and Humphrey (ex of M&S, now of Belron) Singer and Andy (Ocado soddie) Harrison...
...When Dell first proposed a reverse merger with its listed affiliate, DVMT, the PC maker valued its private shares at $79.77 each....
...James Watson, the 90-year-old DNA pioneer, recently restated his belief that blacks are cognitively inferior to whites....
...Many of the largest holders of the VMware tracking stock are hedge fund investors, including Elliott Management, Farallon Capital and Mason Capital, that specialise in complex M&A situations....
...The Saudi fund, as well as other sovereign funds such as the ones controlled by Qatar, Norway and China, are among the few plausible sources of equity, according to M&A advisers....
...I’m on my way. James, the email checker 1pm: Great, I’ll have paella, when in Spain and all that. Hannah, stop hitting your brother. Sorry Emily, I thought I had switched it off....
...Read more about Ratner in this profile by the FT's Eric Platt and James Fontanella-Khan....
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