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February 5, 2013

Microsoft & Friends Buy Dell

Worthen, Wall Street Journal


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Dell Inc. DELL +1.06% on Tuesday said it reached a deal to take itself private, in a $24.4 billion buyout that marks an unofficial end to the era when a handful of young entrepreneurs made PCs the dominant computing device.

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