Michael Dell

ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL): -- Provides Customers Extensive Capabilities in Enterprise IT Services and Business Solutions -- Creates Dell Services Global Business Unit -- Names Peter Altabef President of Dell Services Dell today announced the successful completion of its tender offer for Perot Systems, an offer which expired Monday at midnight (EST). Dell has accepted the shares validly tendered and has notified Perot Systems of its exercise of its top-up option to acquire Perot Systems shares. As a result of the ...

FRIDAY HARBOR, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/26/09 -- Washington State Superintendent Randy Dorn revealed a plan to designate funding to technology implementation in K-12 classrooms from the stage of the FiReGlobal : West Coast technology conference last week. Responding to a suggestion by David Engle, SNS Project Inkwell Director of Operations, that the state designate $500 per student for the implementation of 1:1 computing, Dorn revealed that such a movement is already under discussion in the state-level Quality Education Council. Dorn stressed the necessity of technology in improving Washington State assessment utility and effectivity. "We're actually meeting," Dorn told Engle and the audience. "We have a state-level [council] called the Quality Education Council and we're looking at ...

FRIDAY HARBOR, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/21/09 -- For the first time ever, a technology conference has taken the lead in solving large-scale regional problems. FiReGlobal : West Coast, held October 15th in Seattle, produced radical new ideas and proposals in almost every area discussed. FiReGlobal was hosted by Strategic News Service (SNS), producer of the highly regarded Future in Review (FiRe) conferences. This new conference offered a world-class gathering in technology and economics, uniting thought leaders in major global and regional sectors. Regional problems were selected by a steering committee of 50 community leaders. Solutions were achieved beforehand by CTO work groups and produced on-the-fly by presenters on stage. Solutions included state protection of $500 per student, to fund 1:1 computing in K-12 classrooms; a new "bubble of protection" surrounding startups ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company (www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing), today announced the availability of "Behind the Cloud," a new book by Founder and CEO Marc Benioff and published by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) "Behind the Cloud" will, for the first time, offer a personal insider's view of the creation of a cloud computing giant and tell the story of how salesforce.com brought businesses into the cloud in an era dominated by mass consumer cloud services like Facebook, Google and Twitter. Benioff shares personal stories of the pivotal situations that salesforce.com encountered on its ascent. "Behind the Cloud" provides readers with a practical, how-to guide, including 10 playbooks with 111 plays that are packaged as case studies so entrepreneurs and existing business executives may employ the secrets to salesforce.com's success. Readers will uncover the plays used to take salesforce.com from idea to billion-dollar ...

TSX-VENTURE: SBX VANCOUVER, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Sea Breeze Power Corp. is pleased to be featured as a FiReStar award winner at the FiReGlobal : West Coast conference. The conference will provide the featured FiReStar companies with the opportunity to showcase their accomplishments, and to meet with local and global investors at the FiReStar reception. The eight innovative ventures were pre-selected from hundreds of nominations for their progressive ideas and the potential to bring about vital world change. FiReGlobal : West Coast is the first regional version of the annual Future in Review(TM) global technology conference, named "the ...