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Title: Dell

The announcement came two years after Dell Inc. returned to private ownership, claiming that it faced bleak prospects and would need several years out of the public eye to rebuild its business. It's thought that the company's value has roughly doubled since then. EMC was being pressured by Elliott Management, a hedge fund holding 2.2% of EMC's stock, to reorganize their unusual "Federation" structure, in which EMC's divisions were effectively being run as independent companies. Elliott argued this structure deeply undervalued EMC's core "EMC II" data storage business, and that increasing competition between EMC II and VMware products was confusing the market and hindering both companies. The Wall Street Journal estimated that in 2014 Dell had revenue of $27.3 billion from personal computers and $8.9bn from servers, while EMC had $16.5bn from EMC II, $1bn from RSA Security, $6bn from VMware, and $230 million from Pivotal Software. EMC owns around 80 percent of the stock of VMware. The proposed acquisition will maintain VMware as a separate company, held via a new tracking stock, while the other parts of EMC will be rolled into Dell. Once the acquisition closes Dell will again publish quarterly financial results, having ceased these on going private in 2013.

Question: What hedge fund group was pressuring EMC into restructuring?
Answer: Elliott Management

Question: How much has Dell's value increased since they went private?
Answer: doubled

Question: What news source published revenue estimations between Dell and EMC?
Answer: The Wall Street Journal

Question: What year did Dell go private?
Answer: 2013
Title: Dell

Dell opened plants in Penang, Malaysia in 1995, and in Xiamen, China in 1999. These facilities serve the Asian market and assemble 95% of Dell notebooks. Dell Inc. has invested[when?] an estimated $60 million in a new manufacturing unit in Chennai, India, to support the sales of its products in the Indian subcontinent. Indian-made products bear the "Made in India" mark. In 2007 the Chennai facility had the target of producing 400,000 desktop PCs, and plans envisaged it starting to produce notebook PCs and other products in the second half of 2007.[citation needed]

Question: In what foreign country did Dell open plants in 1995?
Answer: Malaysia

Question: What percentage of Dell notebooks are assembled in their asian plants?
Answer: 95%

Question: How much did Dell spend to construct a new plant in India?
Answer: $60 million

Question: How many PCs was Dell's Indian plant slated to make in 2007?
Answer: 400,000
Title: Dell

The board consists of nine directors. Michael Dell, the founder of the company, serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Other board members include Don Carty, William Gray, Judy Lewent, Klaus Luft, Alex Mandl, Michael A. Miles, and Sam Nunn. Shareholders elect the nine board members at meetings, and those board members who do not get a majority of votes must submit a resignation to the board, which will subsequently choose whether or not to accept the resignation. The board of directors usually sets up five committees having oversight over specific matters. These committees include the Audit Committee, which handles accounting issues, including auditing and reporting; the Compensation Committee, which approves compensation for the CEO and other employees of the company; the Finance Committee, which handles financial matters such as proposed mergers and acquisitions; the Governance and Nominating Committee, which handles various corporate matters (including nomination of the board); and the Antitrust Compliance Committee, which attempts to prevent company practices from violating antitrust laws.[citation needed]

Question: Who is the founder of Dell?
Answer: Michael Dell

Question: How many board members does Dell have?
Answer: nine

Question: How many committees are appointed by the board of directors at Dell?
Answer: five

Question: Which Dell committee handles accounting issues?
Answer: Audit Committee

Question: Which Dell committee keeps the company from violating antitrust laws?
Answer: Antitrust Compliance Committee
Title: Dell

In the early 1990s, Dell sold its products through Best Buy, Costco and Sam's Club stores in the United States. Dell stopped this practice in 1994, citing low profit-margins on the business, exclusively distributing through a direct-sales model for the next decade. In 2003, Dell briefly sold products in Sears stores in the U.S. In 2007, Dell started shipping its products to major retailers in the U.S. once again, starting with Sam's Club and Wal-Mart. Staples, the largest office-supply retailer in the U.S., and Best Buy, the largest electronics retailer in the U.S., became Dell retail partners later that same year.

Question: What decade did Dell sell electronics through big box stores?
Answer: 1990s

Question: what year did Dell stop selling products through physical retailers?
Answer: 1994

Question: What store did Dell sell electronics at in 2003?
Answer: Sears

Question: What year did Dell begin selling products at retailers again?
Answer: 2007

Question: Who is the largest electronics retailer in the US? 
Answer: Best Buy
Title: Dell

Dell became the first company in the information technology industry to establish a product-recycling goal (in 2004) and completed the implementation of its global consumer recycling-program in 2006. On February 6, 2007, the National Recycling Coalition awarded Dell its "Recycling Works" award for efforts to promote producer responsibility. On July 19, 2007, Dell announced that it had exceeded targets in working to achieve a multi-year goal of recovering 275 million pounds of computer equipment by 2009. The company reported the recovery of 78 million pounds (nearly 40,000 tons) of IT equipment from customers in 2006, a 93-percent increase over 2005; and 12.4% of the equipment Dell sold seven years earlier.

Question: What was Dell the first IT company to establish?
Answer: product-recycling goal

Question: What year did Dell enact its global consumer recycling program?
Answer: 2006

Question: How much electronics did Dell recycle by 2009?
Answer: 275 million pounds

Question: What year was 78 million pounds of Dell equipment recycled?
Answer: 2006

Question: What percentage of Dell electronics from the previous seven years were recycled?
Answer: 12.4%
Title: Dell

In the 1990s, Dell switched from using primarily ATX motherboards and PSU to using boards and power supplies with mechanically identical but differently wired connectors. This meant customers wishing to upgrade their hardware would have to replace parts with scarce Dell-compatible parts instead of commonly available parts. While motherboard power connections reverted to the industry standard in 2003, Dell continues to remain secretive about their motherboard pin-outs for peripherals (such as MMC readers and power on/off switches and LEDs).

Question: What decade did Dell switch to PSUs and boards that had differently wired connectors?
Answer: 1990s

Question: With what kind of parts were consumers able to upgrade their Dell systems with?
Answer: Dell-compatible parts

Question: What year did Dell revert its power connectors to industry standard ones?
Answer: 2003

Question: What part of their motherboards does Dell not reveal the specifications of?
Answer: pin-outs
Title: Dell

Dell traces its origins to 1984, when Michael Dell created Dell Computer Corporation, which at the time did business as PC's Limited, while a student of the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company sold IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components. Dell dropped out of school to focus full-time on his fledgling business, after getting $1,000 in expansion-capital from his family. In 1985, the company produced the first computer of its own design, the Turbo PC, which sold for $795. PC's Limited advertised its systems in national computer magazines for sale directly to consumers and custom assembled each ordered unit according to a selection of options. The company grossed more than $73 million in its first year of operation.

Question: When did Michael Dell found his company?
Answer: 1984

Question: How much did Dell receive as capital from his family?
Answer: $1,000

Question: What school did Dell go to and later drop out of while he ran his business?
Answer: University of Texas at Austin

Question: What year did Dell design its own computer?
Answer: 1985

Question: How much did Dell profit in its first year?
Answer: $73 million
Title: Dell

From 1997 to 2004, Dell enjoyed steady growth and it gained market share from competitors even during industry slumps. During the same period, rival PC vendors such as Compaq, Gateway, IBM, Packard Bell, and AST Research struggled and eventually left the market or were bought out. Dell surpassed Compaq to become the largest PC manufacturer in 1999. Operating costs made up only 10 percent of Dell's $35 billion in revenue in 2002, compared with 21 percent of revenue at Hewlett-Packard, 25 percent at Gateway, and 46 percent at Cisco. In 2002, when Compaq merged with Hewlett Packard (the fourth-place PC maker), the newly combined Hewlett Packard took the top spot but struggled and Dell soon regained its lead. Dell grew the fastest in the early 2000s.

Question: What did Dell enjoy from 1997 to 2004?
Answer: steady growth

Question: What company did Dell overtake as the largest PC manufacturer?
Answer: Compaq

Question: How much were Dell profiting in 2002?
Answer: $35 billion

Question: What company did Compaq merge with in 2002?
Answer: Hewlett Packard

Question: What company was the fastest growing in the early 2000s?
Answer: Dell
Title: Dell

Dell had a reputation as a company that relied upon supply chain efficiencies to sell established technologies at low prices, instead of being an innovator. By the mid-2000s many analysts were looking to innovating companies as the next source of growth in the technology sector. Dell's low spending on R&D relative to its revenue (compared to IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Apple Inc.)—which worked well in the commoditized PC market—prevented it from making inroads into more lucrative segments, such as MP3 players and later mobile devices. Increasing spending on R&D would have cut into the operating margins that the company emphasized. Dell had done well with a horizontal organization that focused on PCs when the computing industry moved to horizontal mix-and-match layers in the 1980s, but by the mid-2000 the industry shifted to vertically integrated stacks to deliver complete IT solutions and Dell lagged far behind competitors like Hewlett Packard and Oracle.

Question: What did Dell rely on that gave it a reputation?
Answer: supply chain efficiencies

Question: What did Dell maintain lower spending on than its competitors?
Answer: R&D

Question: What was Dell's organizational structure considered?
Answer: horizontal

Question: Dell lagged behind Hewlett Packard and Oracle in delivering what kind of solutions?
Answer: IT solutions
Title: Dell

Dell announced a change campaign called "Dell 2.0," reducing the number of employees and diversifying the company's products. While chairman of the board after relinquishing his CEO position, Michael Dell still had significant input in the company during Rollins' years as CEO. With the return of Michael Dell as CEO, the company saw immediate changes in operations, the exodus of many senior vice-presidents and new personnel brought in from outside the company. Michael Dell announced a number of initiatives and plans (part of the "Dell 2.0" initiative) to improve the company's financial performance. These include elimination of 2006 bonuses for employees with some discretionary awards, reduction in the number of managers reporting directly to Michael Dell from 20 to 12, and reduction of "bureaucracy". Jim Schneider retired as CFO and was replaced by Donald Carty, as the company came under an SEC probe for its accounting practices.

Question: What was the name of Dell's change campaign?
Answer: Dell 2.0

Question: Who relinquished his position as CEO to take a seat on the board?
Answer: Michael Dell

Question: Michael Dell removed employee bonuses from what year with his new incentive?
Answer: 2006

Question: Who replaced Jim Schneider as Dell CFO?
Answer: Donald Carty
Title: Dell

Dell has been attempting to offset its declining PC business, which still accounted for half of its revenue and generates steady cash flow, by expanding into the enterprise market with servers, networking, software, and services. It avoided many of the acquisition writedowns and management turnover that plagued its chief rival Hewlett Packard. Dell also managed some success in taking advantage of its high-touch direct sales heritage to establish close relationships and design solutions for clients. Despite spending $13 billion on acquisitions to diversify its portfolio beyond hardware, the company was unable to convince the market that it could thrive or made the transformation in the post-PC world, as it suffered continued declines in revenue and share price. Dell's market share in the corporate segment was previously a "moat" against rivals but this has no longer been the case as sales and profits have fallen precipitously.

Question: How much of Dell's revenue was its PC division?
Answer: half

Question: Who was Dell's main business rival?
Answer: Hewlett Packard

Question: How much did Dell spend on acquiring different divisions?
Answer: $13 billion

Question: What happened to Dell's revenue and share price in the post-PC market?
Answer: declines
Title: Dell

Dell facilities in the United States are located in Austin, Texas; Plano, Texas; Nashua, New Hampshire; Nashville, Tennessee; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Peoria, Illinois; Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland area); Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Eden Prairie, Minnesota (Dell Compellent); Bowling Green, Kentucky; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Miami, Florida. Facilities located abroad include Penang, Malaysia; Xiamen, China; Bracknell, UK; Manila, Philippines Chennai, India; Hyderabad, India; Noida, India; Hortolandia and Porto Alegre, Brazil; Bratislava, Slovakia; Łódź, Poland; Panama City, Panama; Dublin and Limerick, Ireland; and Casablanca, Morocco.

Question: What city is Dell's New Hampshire facility in?
Answer: Nashua

Question: What city is Dell's Tennessee facility in?
Answer: Nashville

Question: What city is Dell's Minnesota facility in?
Answer: Eden Prairie

Question: What city is Dell's Florida facility in?
Answer: Miami
Title: Dell

Assembly of desktop computers for the North American market formerly took place at Dell plants in Austin, Texas (original location) and Lebanon, Tennessee (opened in 1999), which have been closed in 2008 and early 2009, respectively. The plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina received $280 million USD in incentives from the state and opened in 2005, but ceased operations in November 2010, and Dell's contract with the state requires them to repay the incentives for failing to meet the conditions. Most of the work that used to take place in Dell's U.S. plants was transferred to contract manufacturers in Asia and Mexico, or some of Dell's own factories overseas. The Miami, Florida facility of its Alienware subsidiary remains in operation, while Dell continues to produce its servers (its most profitable products) in Austin, Texas.

Question: What city is Dell's Texas facility in?
Answer: Austin

Question: What year was Dell's Tennessee facility opened?
Answer: 1999

Question: What state was the Dell plant that received $280 million in incentives in?
Answer: North Carolina

Question: What continent did a lot of work from Dell's plants get transferred to?
Answer: Asia

Question: What subsidiary of Dell remains operating in Florida?
Answer: Alienware
Title: Dell

Dell committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its global activities by 40% by 2015, with 2008 fiscal year as the baseline year. It is listed in Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics that scores leading electronics manufacturers according to their policies on sustainability, climate and energy and how green their products are. In November 2011, Dell ranked 2nd out of 15 listed electronics makers (increasing its score to 5.1 from 4.9, which it gained in the previous ranking from October 2010).

Question: What emissions did Dell strive to reduce?
Answer: greenhouse gas

Question: By 2015, how much did Dell slate to reduce its emissions?
Answer: 40%

Question: What year did Dell rank 2nd for product greenness?
Answer: 2011

Question: What organization scores electronics manufacturers based on how environmentally friendly their products are? 
Answer: Greenpeace
Title: Dell

In July 2009, Dell apologized after drawing the ire of the Taiwanese Consumer Protection Commission for twice refusing to honour a flood of orders against unusually low prices offered on its Taiwanese website. In the first instance, Dell offered a 19" LCD panel for $15. In the second instance, Dell offered its Latitude E4300 notebook at NT$18,558 (US$580), 70% lower than usual price of NT$60,900 (US$1900). Concerning the E4300, rather than honour the discount taking a significant loss, the firm withdrew orders and offered a voucher of up to NT$20,000 (US$625) a customer in compensation. The consumer rights authorities in Taiwan fined Dell NT$1 million (US$31250) for customer rights infringements. Many consumers sued the firm for the unfair compensation. A court in southern Taiwan ordered the firm to deliver 18 laptops and 76 flat-panel monitors to 31 consumers for NT$490,000 (US$15,120), less than a third of the normal price. The court said the event could hardly be regarded as mistakes, as the prestigious firm said the company mispriced its products twice in Taiwanese website within 3 weeks.

Question: What year did Dell come under fire from the Taiwanese Consumer Protection Commission?
Answer: 2009

Question: What percent lower was Dell selling its notebooks in Taiwan?
Answer: 70%

Question: What did dell sell for $19 in Taiwan?
Answer: 19" LCD

Question: How much did Taiwan fine Dell for its practices?
Answer: NT$1 million
Title: Dell

Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals, HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players, and electronics built by other manufacturers. The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its "build-to-order" or "configure to order" approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services. The company has since made additional acquisitions in storage and networking systems, with the aim of expanding their portfolio from offering computers only to delivering complete solutions for enterprise customers.

Question: Innovations in what kind of management is Dell known for?
Answer: supply chain

Question: What sales model did Dell follow?
Answer: direct-sales

Question: For the majority of Dell's existence, what were they a vendor of?
Answer: hardware

Question: What company did Dell acquire in 2009?
Answer: Perot Systems

Question: What market did Dell begin to compete in in 2009?
Answer: IT services
Title: Dell

In 1993, to complement its own direct sales channel, Dell planned to sell PCs at big-box retail outlets such as Wal-Mart, which would have brought in an additional $125 million in annual revenue. Bain consultant Kevin Rollins persuaded Michael Dell to pull out of these deals, believing they would be money losers in the long run. Margins at retail were thin at best and Dell left the reseller channel in 1994. Rollins would soon join Dell full-time and eventually become the company President and CEO.

Question: What year did Dell plan to sell PCs at retailers?
Answer: 1993

Question: What was one retailer that were going to sell Dell PCs?
Answer: Wal-Mart

Question: Who convinced Michael Dell to not use retailers to sell PCs?
Answer: Kevin Rollins

Question: What position at Dell did Kevin Rollins eventually attain?
Answer: CEO
Title: Dell

In 1986, Michael Dell brought in Lee Walker, a 51-year-old venture capitalist, as president and chief operating officer, to serve as Michael's mentor and implement Michael's ideas for growing the company. Walker was also instrumental in recruiting members to the board of directors when the company went public in 1988. Walker retired in 1990 due to health, and Michael Dell hired Morton Meyerson, former CEO and president of Electronic Data Systems to transform the company from a fast-growing medium-sized firm into a billion-dollar enterprise.

Question: What year did Michael Dell bring in Lee Walker to the company?
Answer: 1986

Question: What did Lee Walker recruit members to Dell for?
Answer: board of directors

Question: What year did Walker retire?
Answer: 1990

Question: What was Morton Meyerson's position at his former company?
Answer: CEO
Title: Dell

Despite plans of expanding into other global regions and product segments, Dell was heavily dependent on U.S. corporate PC market, as desktop PCs sold to both commercial and corporate customers accounted for 32 percent of its revenue, 85 percent of its revenue comes from businesses, and Sixty-four percent of its revenue comes from North and South America, according to its 2006 third-quarter results. U.S. shipments of desktop PCs were shrinking, and the corporate PC market which purchases PCs in upgrade cycles had largely decided to take a break from buying new systems. The last cycle started around 2002, three or so years after companies started buying PCs ahead of the perceived Y2K problems, and corporate clients were not expected to upgrade again until extensive testing of Microsoft's Windows Vista (expected in early 2007), putting the next upgrade cycle around 2008. Heavily depending on PCs, Dell had to slash prices to boost sales volumes, while demanding deep cuts from suppliers.

Question: What country's PC market was Dell reliant on?
Answer: U.S

Question: What percentage of Dell's profits were desktop PCs being sold to commercial and corporate buyers?
Answer: 32 percent

Question: What year were Dell's PC profits shrinking?
Answer: 2006

Question: What operating system was slated to be the next system upgrade for corporate clients?
Answer: Microsoft's Windows Vista
Title: Dell

The release of Apple's iPad tablet computer had a negative impact on Dell and other major PC vendors, as consumers switched away from desktop and laptop PCs. Dell's own mobility division has not managed success with developing smartphones or tablets, whether running Windows or Google Android. The Dell Streak was a failure commercially and critically due to its outdated OS, numerous bugs, and low resolution screen. InfoWorld suggested that Dell and other OEMs saw tablets as a short-term, low-investment opportunity running Google Android, an approach that neglected user interface and failed to gain long term market traction with consumers. Dell has responded by pushing higher-end PCs, such as the XPS line of notebooks, which do not compete with the Apple iPad and Kindle Fire tablets. The growing popularity of smartphones and tablet computers instead of PCs drove Dell's consumer segment to an operating loss in Q3 2012. In December 2012, Dell suffered its first decline in holiday sales in five years, despite the introduction of Windows 8.

Question: Which division of Dell were unsuccessful in developing mobile devices?
Answer: mobility

Question: The release of what electronic had a negative impact on Dell?
Answer: iPad

Question: What Dell product was a commercial failure?
Answer: Streak

Question: What line of high end electronics did Dell create that failed to compete with Apple products?
Answer: XPS

Question: What year did Dell see its first decline in holiday sales?
Answer: 2012