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Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales

Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private. read more »

UK manufacturer Trunki replaces Sage with NetSuite to support expansion

Fast growing British luggage manufacturer Trunki has ditched its Sage software and switched to NetSuite's cloud ERP and CRM tools to simplify its UK operations and provide a basis for overseas expansion. read more »

Google steals march on Apple in music subscription

Google beat Apple to the music subscription service punch this week, perhaps the doing of record labels who wanted to put Apple in its place, an analyst said read more »

Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK

Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011. read more »

SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps

Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio. read more »

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In Depth

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What the new Dell Means for outsourcing customers

Dell put the rumors to rest today with its announcement that it will indeed go private as founder and CEO Michael Dell and private investment firm Silver Lake Partners acquire the company in a deal estimated at $24.4 billion. read more »

What Google's Transparency Report doesn't tell us

Google's Transparency Reports, released every six months, are interesting not just for what they reveal about government requests for internet user data, but also for what they do not reveal. read more »

CES announcements IT pros need to know about

The Consumer Electronics Show is not only about consumer gadgets, as enterprise vendors such as Dell and Intel tend to announce major new technology advancements as well. CES 2013 was no different. Here are the top business tech announcements from Las Vegas. read more »

What to expect from enterprise technology in 2013

CEOs are responsible for directing high-level strategy and ensuring growth and long-term viability. For those who run publicly traded companies, exceeding shareholder and market expectations is always top of mind. read more »

Dell faces challenges in private buyout plan, analysts say

Dell's high market capitalisation and its recent struggles to transition from a commodity PC supplier to an enterprise IT vendor mean that multiple private equity firms would have to invest in the company for a buyout to be possible, analysts said yesterday. read more »

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