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Dell's Safety Net Has Holes

Its price dropped to below where it was in January before Michael Dell returned as CEO
By Linux News Desk
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December 13, 2007 01:30 PM EST
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Dell said Tuesday morning that it would start buying back a gargantuan $10 billion worth of its stock. To no avail. Its price dropped to below where it was in January before Michael Dell returned as CEO, recouping only a little since then. Dell has $15 billion in the bank and generates a billion dollars a quarter.

Meanwhile, the WPP Group, the world's second-largest, advertising and pr agency, is going to set up an agency just for Dell and Dell is going to shovel $4.5 billion through it over the next three years.

Apparently Dell is applying the same principal to marketing that it did to its supply chain. At least that's what it says.

It's previously had an unbelievable 800 ad agencies working for it worldwide.

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