Beleaguered Dell today announced the completion of its acquisition by Michael Dell, Dell’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, and Silver Lake Partners, a technology investment firm.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, shareholders of beleaguered Dell will receive $13.75 in cash for each share of beleaguered Dell common stock they hold, plus payment of a special cash dividend of $0.13 per share to stockholders of record as of the close of business on Oct. 28, 2013, for total consideration of $13.88 per share in cash. The total transaction is valued at approximately $24.9 billion.
The transaction was approved by beleaguered Dell’s stockholders at a special meeting of stockholders held on Sept. 12, 2013. Trading in beleaguered Dell’s common stock will conclude at the end of business today, and the company has commenced the process to delist its common shares from the NASDAQ Stock Market.
“Today, Dell enters an exciting new chapter as a private enterprise,” said Mikey Dell. “Our 110,000 team members worldwide are 100 percent focused on our customers and aggressively executing our long-term strategy for their benefit.”
Source: Dell Inc.
MacDailyNews Take: One last time:
Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Jim S.” for the heads up.]
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Sorry for the people that are hurt by this…
That said, the shoe is on the other foot Mikey!!
Don’t feel sorry for those that invested in Dell.
They thought Dell was kicking butt and that Mikey was smarter than Steve.
Time to cover that silly bet.
Five ‘beleaguered’ in one article is that a record ?
IDIOT! I just wish SJ was here to laugh at that fool!
I’m sure somewhere in heaven, or another dimension of the Universe he’s had quite the chuckle.
Steve had the last laugh years ago when AAPL eclipsed every corporation on earth.
Steve never met Mac Pro 2013 either, but I’m certain he’d hate it, then love it, then hate it again.
My sense is, Steve was tired of Dell too. Bored with their ascension and disgusted by its decline—one can only look upon a train wreck for so long, before your eyes alight on some horrific detail—and the many families Mikey Dell destroyed before his company was wrested away from him.
Sound familiar?
Dells’ rise to stardom can be attributed purely to Plug & Play; Mikey Dell color coded his cables and ports for an ignorant computer market of Windows consumers.
But then a clusterfuck ensued when Dell was caught in a Catch-22 over 64-bit computing.
Microsoft couldn’t develop a 64-bit software system until the hardware guys made a 64-bit processor and Intel and AMD needed an operating system so they all sat on their hands. Meanwhile Linux is gaining ground in enterprise; proving to be more robust than Windows ever was.
Meanwhile Macintosh slips past them all and hasn’t looked back. We’ve enjoyed the power & productivity of 64-bit computing for years.
I can hear Steve now, ‘Look can we talk about something else?’, when bad news about Dell or Microsoft surfaced; No Joy!
Pay back time Mickey. The only sad thing is that he’s probably so full of himself to see the irony in what is happening. At any rate, buh buy Dell.
I sure hope you mean “buh bye”, not “buh buy”.
I’m not normally a spelling/grammar Nazi, but this one is a big deal.
Almost as bad as the diff between these two:
“John helped his uncle, Jack, off his horse.”
“John helped his uncle jack off his horse.”
yeah…good thing Ella Fitzgerald didn’t marry Allen Funt.
…or Darth Vader.
can officially remove the crosshairs from Mike’s photo.
er, the crosshairs from his crosseyes.
110,000 team members?
Let the layoffs begin!
BTW, Apple not hiring anyone brainwashed by Dell.
One more down, so many more technological blockages to be removed. Yes, it could not have happened to a more appropriate company. Give the investors back their money Michael Dell. It is about time.
Yes but they’re not out of business yet. In time though, especially with cross-eyed Mickey D at the hellish helm.
You know, that reminds me that you really have to mind your P’s and Q’s in this life. Because apparently, Karma can be quite the bitch.
And “Pride Before Fall.”
If Dell actually comes out with a compelling product now (I know, I laughed too when I wrote it) then we’ll kind of wonder if they were sandbagging for a few years to bring down the purchase price.
That could be the only plausible explanation for the rudderless leadership and craptastic hardware produced by Dell (well, it would explain the past few years anyway).
I think I just heard a “Boom!” From beyond the grave!
Cook is next judging by the shit he releases in the form of iOS 7. Still the same four letters except substitute D-E-L-L for C-O-O-K.
Why don’t you apply for the Apple CEO job?
He would, but a job application written in Crayon, the only writing implement they allow where he currently resides, just wouldn’t cut it…
It’s the end of an error
agreed, and I mean that from the heart of my bottom.
He’s got those crazy lib eyes!
I hope to live to see every part of Dell sold off!
Yeah…guess you didn’t know his political affiliation.
“In 2004, Susan and Michael Dell were among 53 contributors of $250,000 each (the maximum legal donation) to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.”
Sorry, you were saying something rather foolish?
Dell, you couldn’t make it up.
And next is Microsloth’s turn!
$24 billion? Over paid.
“Our 110,000 team members worldwide are 100 percent focused on our customers and aggressively executing our long-term strategy for their benefit.”
Er, OK. So what were they focused on before?
Yeah, I loved that example of managobabble. My last boss hit us with a beauty when I queried the company’s latest crazy scheme (abandoned soon after). “At this stage, we’re just positioning ourselves in the possibility space.”
Translation: “We haven’t got bloody clue whether the idea will work or not, so we’ll pad it out with words”. I think she must have attended the same Waffle 101 class as Mikey.
Presumably, on maximising share value for shareholders. With normal companies, the goals are the same, but for many other, they just slightly overlap. Sometimes companies must do things that aren’t a good long-term idea in order to generate a bump in share value (for example, share buyback… instead of investing into innovation).
The good news is, although I doubt they will capitalize on it, this is a great opportunity for Dell to show the other windows hardware makers how to make products. Especially with pressure of shareholders off their back.
But again, I doubt this will happen.
MDN must be feeling rather gloaty today. 😉
And so he should!
Since Apple’s market cap today is 468B and Dell just got sold for 24.9B the final score is 19 to 1.
Dell: 108,800 employees, 56,940 revenue = $520K/emp
MSFT: 99,000 employee, 77,849 revenue = $786K/emp
Apple: 72,800 employees, 156,508 revenue = $2.15M/emp
Google: 53,861 employees, 50,175 revenue = $932K/emp
an interesting measure.
Could happen to us to you know. Let us not get so cocky.
Just today after record quarter
Apple: $516.68 $-13.20
Google $1,036.24 $+21.24
your numbers are not important to long term viability, just as the numbers that Michael Dell used when he said apple should sell the company and give the money back to the shareholders were not as well. Innovation is king, wall st can go swim with the fishes.
Old Mikey looks a bit beleaguered to me.
Give up computers and stick to what you do best, making great monitors.
“Our 110,000 team members worldwide are 100 percent focused on our customers and aggressively executing our long-term strategy for their benefit.”
Judging by that photo, isn’t that 109,999 team members who are 100% focused?
Michael Dell preached very well and he kept his words. He returns MONEY to shareholders!
The super over-use of the word ‘beleaguered’ has beleaguered your site to a large degree.
Isn’t there a different word that could be thrown in just for variety? I’m getting sick of the beleaguered adjective.
beleaguered, beleaguered, beleaguered, beleaguered say it enough times (or read it on MDN) it has no meaning.