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Michael Dell Totally Didn’t Mean To Talk Shit About Apple

8:15AM October 19, 2011 | Casey Chan

Michael Dell, famous for making affordable PCs with his name tattooed on ‘em, is also infamous for once saying if he was CEO of Apple, he would “shut it down and give money back to the shareholders”. Well he totally didn’t mean it like that. Or kind of did. Or something. It’s confusing. More »


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Michael Dell Snipes At HP Social Media Intern In Epic Twitter Battle

3:45AM August 22, 2011 | Jack Loftus

August 21, 2011: The day billionaire Michael Dell got in a tit-for-tat scuffle with someone from HP, probably some poor social media intern who drew the weekend straw this week, about HP’s withdrawal from the consumer PC space. More »


The Mansions Of Modern Tech Giants

9:20AM September 29, 2010 | Brian Barrett

My goodness, Steve Jobs’s new house looks like it’ll be a doozy. And it’ll have to be if he wants to keep up with the ivory castles his tech mogul cohorts have built for themselves. More »


Dell Leaving China In Search Of “Safer Environments” In India

12:03AM March 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Dell’s said to be joining Google in fleeing China in search of a “safer environment with [a]climate conducive to enterprise”, potentially taking the $US25 billion it spends on equipment and parts in China to India. More »


Computing

Michael Dell Trashes Netbooks, Loves Windows 7

9:50PM October 14, 2009 | Danny Allen

Dell may have a page dedicated to pitching netbooks, but its founder and CEO slammed mini notebooks at last night’s Silicon Valley dinner sponsored by the Churchill Club. He also said Windows 7 will help you love your PC again… More »


Geek Out

Separated At Birth?

6:00PM June 13, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

I’m sorry, but I just gotta know—are Dell Dude #1 Michael Dell and Iron Man director Jon Favreau secretly related? Does their freakish resemblance not trouble anyone else?


Computing

All Things D Live: Dell CEO Michael Dell

4:47AM May 29, 2008 | Brian Lam

Mossberg: Former Dell CEO has said that R&D is a waste. That still true? Dell: No. There’s tens of billions of dollars spent in the industry and while we definitely see value here, we’re also into leveraging the tech from other partners. For example, the 0.3mm OLED that Sony showed. Mossberg: You going to use those?

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Geek Out

Caption Contest: Bill Gates, Bono and Michael Dell Walk into a Bar

5:15AM January 26, 2008 | Jason Chen

Have you seen Bono more uncomfortable than this? Caption this picture of him supporting the Dell & Microsoft RED campaign. AU: Come on AU, let’s see what your captioning skills are like…

[Image courtesy Gadgetell]

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