Dell's first acquisition occurred in 1999 with the purchase of ConvergeNet Technologies.

* In February 2011 the acquisition of Compellent by Dell was completed after the initial announcement of Dell's intention to buy the company was announced on 13 December 2010

Dell's price advantage was tied to its ultra-lean manufacturing for desktop PCs, however this became less important as the market shifted to laptops, and as rivals such as Hewlett-Packard and Acer made their PC operations more efficient.

The novel was highly acclaimed upon its publication, and became O ' Dell's best known work.

He became the chief suspect when he claimed to have brought down Dell's website, an attack that had not been publicized at that time.

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.

Dell's reputation for poor customer service, since 2002, which was exacerbated as it moved call centres offshore and as its growth outstripped its technical support infrastructure, came under increasing scrutiny on the Web.

The post office was established in O ' Dell's store in 1882, and the village was incorporated on January 21, 1890..

An early example of the cheeseburger appearing on a menu is a 1928 menu for the Los Angeles restaurant O ' Dell's which listed a cheeseburger smothered with chili for 25 cents.

Released on Dell's website on February 26, 2009, the Inspiron Mini 10 is a netbook whose Mini 10v model weighs, and whose Mini 10 model weighs.

The first appearance of Red Ryder on Dell's Crackajack Funnies # 9 ( March 1939 ).

The Chipmunks first appeared in comic book form on Dell's Four Color Comics series, issue # 1042 ( cover-dated Dec. 1959 ).

There are a few businesses and shopping centers on NE Hazel Dell Ave., just West of I-5, scattered from 63rd St to 99th St. Hazel Dell's business and services include: a cinema-plex, Fred Meyer, Safeway, Wal-Mart, Winco, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Baskin-Robbins, Skippers, Smokey's Pizza, Burgerville, KFC, Hazel Dell Brew Pub, Husted's Hazel Dell Lanes, Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Buffalo Wild Wings, Radio Shack, LA Fitness, several convenience stores, used car dealerships, Auto Parts stores, pawn shops, taverns, lounges and pubs, motels, as well as many other franchise eateries, several banks and realty, medical and dental offices.

On the one hand, it was held responsible for a wave of speculative investment in lavishly budgeted features which could never hope to recoup their production costs on the domestic market ( e. g. the output of Alexander Korda's London Films, a boom-and-bust which was famously satirised in Jeffrey Dell's 1939 novel Nobody Ordered Wolves.

Dell's most celebrated programme, The Dance Band Days, ran from 1969 ( initially-and perhaps ironically-on Radio 1, the BBC's " pop " channel, launched in 1967 as a replacement for the offshore pirate stations ) until 1995 and, in later years, did so in a sequence on Monday evenings with Dell's " other side ", The Big Band Sound.

The main elements of these programmes were retained for a number of years after Dell's death, in a Sunday night programme introduced on Radio 2 by Malcolm Laycock.

* Karana, the main character in Scott O ' Dell's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins, who is based on the historical Juana Maria

While in Charleston, O ' Dell's reports on the lenient police approach to DUI cases led to a State Law Enforcement Division investigation that resulted in state authorities re-issuing a more stringent directive regarding these cases.

In Chris O ' Dell's 2009 autobiography Miss O ' Dell she details an affair she had with married playwright Sam Shepard and states that Shepard then cheated on her with Joni Mitchell.

Rebate issues began to clog Dell's customer service forums, leading the company to shut down that portion of the website, and refocus its energy on new online customer care services.

Dell's Latitude shipments primarily involve the Latitude E-series, introduced in August 2008, on the Exx00 revision.

The D600 ( and simultaneously introduced D800 ) was Dell's first business-oriented notebook based on the Pentium-M processor ; it used the first-generation " Banias " or Dothan Pentium M chips running on a 400 MT / s FSB on DDR memory.

As of February 2012, Forbes estimates Dell's net worth at $ 15. 9 billion.

Due to Dell's struggles in late 2006, HP has led all PC vendors since 2007 onwards.

Most of the growth has been residential but also large employers, such as Dell's international headquarters, have changed Williamson County from just a bedroom community into a more vibrant community where its citizens can live and work in the same general vicinity.

In June 1988, Dell's market capitalization grew by $ 30 million to $ 80 million from its June 22 initial public offering of 3. 5 million shares at $ 8. 50 a share.

Under Rollins, Dell began to loosen its ties to Microsoft and Intel, the two companies which were responsible for Dell's dominance in the PC business.

The slowing sales growth has been attributed to the maturing PC market, which constituted 66 % of Dell's sales, and analysts suggested that Dell needed to make inroads into non-PC businesses segments such as storage, services and servers.

2006 marked the first year that Dell's growth was slower than the PC industry as a whole.

Dell's headquarters is located in Round Rock, Texas.

The top floor continued to hold Dell's board room, demonstration center, and visitor meeting room.

Dell's lease in the Arboretum had been scheduled to expire in 1994.

Las Cimas 2 housed Dell's executives, the investment operations, and some corporate functions.

The US and India are the only countries which have all of Dell's business functions and provide support globally: Research and Development, manufacturing, finance, analysis, customer care.

Oakwood was initially called O ' Dell's Crossing for its main landowner, Ulysses S. O ' Dell Sr.

The Inquirer was also the first publication to report Dell's subsequent decision to recall all 4. 1 million of the faulty batteries, according to BusinessWeek.

Dell's 1999 book, written in collaboration with Catherine Fredman, Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, is an account of his early life, his company's founding, growth and missteps, as well as lessons learned.

2002 – Quest opened an office in Japan and expanded their application management offerings to custom web applications written in Java with the acquisition of Sitraka.

In May 2011 Quest Diagnostics completed the acquisition of Celera, which thus became a wholly owned subsidiary.

* 1997 buys its biggest-ever acquisition from Unilever four businesses: National Starch, Quest, Unichema, and Crosfield

The company was formed on May 30, 1997, as a result of an acquisition by Franklin Quest of Stephen R. Covey's Covey Leadership Center.

Hyrum Smith, CEO of Franklin Quest, expected the acquisition would increase the company's market value, through the synergistic combination of Covey's Seven Habits book with the Franklin Planner and its associated training courses.

On 22 November 2006, Givaudan announced the acquisition of Quest International to be completed Q1 2007.

Givaudan was already the global leader in flavors and the acquisition of Quest International strengthens their position.

The acquisition of Quest boosted Givaudan's sales by 42 % from CHF 2, 909 million in 2006 to CHF 4, 132 million in 2007.