Dell To acquire Perot Systems For $3.9 Billion

Dell is aiming to strengthen their IT services, this time it is doing so by acquiring a global provider of IT services and business solutions Perot Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, Dell will commence a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding Class A common stock of Perot Systems for $30 per share in cash. With this acquisition.

After the acquisition , Perot systems will become Dell services unit and led by peter altabef, the current CEO of Perot systems. At the same time, Dell directors are expected to consider Ross Perot Jr., Perot Systems' chairman of the board, for appointment to the Dell board. Based on current estimates, the transaction is expected to be accretive to Dell's GAAP earnings in its fiscal 2012

Michael Dell said, "We consider Perot Systems to be a premium asset with great people that enhances our opportunities for immediate and long-term growth. "

Michel Dell said This significantly expands Dell's enterprise-solutions capabilities and makes Perot Systems' strengths available to even more customers around the world. There will be efficiencies from combining the companies, but the acquisition makes such great sense because of the obvious ways our businesses complement each other.


"This transaction represents a great opportunity for our company and our associates. Today's announcement is the next step in formalising a relationship that has flourished for some time. When my father founded Perot Systems he envisioned a global information-technology leader. The new, larger Dell builds on that promise and its own successes by taking Perot Systems' expertise to more customers than ever," added Ross Perot Jr., chairman, board, Perot Systems.

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Google sued by BharatMatrimony.com

Google the online search engine Leader has faced a law suit by an Indian Company Consim info. This time the case has been filed against the ads displayed on google search. Consim info. which owns BharatMatrimony.com has filed a case before the Madras High Court alleging that Google has infringed on its trademark by displaying ads directing to its competitors.

They say that when a user types bharatmartimony.com the results were displayed inlcuding the ads which shows about its direct competetors like Shaadi.com, by which the other sites are getting benifited when user wants direct information about Bharatmatrimony. Even this site gets benifited in the same way but what they say is this gonna directly effect their business.They say that Google was not doing the right thing by allowing advertisers to bid for Consim trademarks through its advertising platform, Google AdWords.

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IBM Acquires RedPill Solutions to Boost Analytics Services

IBM announced an agreement to acquire the business of RedPill Solutions, a privately-held company headquartered in Singapore.RedPill provides advanced customer analytics services to businesses in industries such as financial services, telecommunications, technology and hospitality.

Analytics play an important role in enhancing companies work to improve in speed and quality, same is with redpill, Redpill's data models and expertise, developed through the successful execution of multiple analytics project.Analytics services are also an integral part of IBMs Smarter Planet strategy, which helps companies turn information into a strategic asset, make smarter business decisions and better understand the outcomes of those decisions. The transaction further enhances IBMs consumer marketing and risk management capabilities in the previously mentioned industries.

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Mid-size IT companies to ring in pay hikes

After software giant Wipro lifted freeze on promotions and hikes, although selectively, mid-sized technology firms like MphasiS-EDS, Sonata software and Symphony Services are also planning to increase salaries and give bonus.

IT services firm MphasiS, which recently bagged new outsourcing contracts, has announced a recompense bonus for its staff which the company feels is possibly an innovative compensation model. “For good performers, the bonus can be 15-25% higher than the average pay hike,” MphasiS chief human resources officer Elango R said.

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Google FastFlip.

Google Labs new experiment Fast Flip is online now. Fast Flip concept is pretty interesting which gathers the information accross the Globe and puts infront of you. Google Fast Flip, accessible at fastflip.googlelabs.com.Fast Flip concentrated on collecting the articles such as recent news, headlines, popular aarticles from major websites and top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting.


Now what does google get from doing this. Pretty simple , Google has parterned with three dozens of top publishers , these partners will share the revenue earned from the contextual ads. This gives the publishers an opurtunity to introduce new readers to their content.Google also made a mobile version of Fast Flip with tactile page flipping for Android-powered devices and the iPhone, so you can browse on the go. This is accessible at the same address.

In the markets there are already some sites which provide feeds which collect data from multiple sites and publish on your site. This is almost similar to that concept. Advantage of this site is user can news from various sites at one glance. User cannot expect any specific related information which he needs all i say is it is just like an online news paper which has varios posts from the parterned sites.

Well the good thing about this site is, it got three sections stating popular, Sections,Topics and Sources which are further categorised respectively. When you click on an image of post it redirects to a page which is shown below. You can navigate through the posts using the arrows shown besides the posts.And also at the left side of the page there is mouse over option which displays the posts.



Things that are not good about this site is first of all this is not like which user wants to come in and just spend time in readers the news which is no way related to him. I suggest they should have gone for the same idea but concentrating on the news which user demands. which makes more sites coming up on this site and graphical interface is way back. Most of it takes the pictures of the webpages and displays on this site, when you click any image this redirects to next page showing the same image in a larger view with some ad's beside and then when clicked the image it redirects to the original web site.

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