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.

Exchange SP1 Out
Microsoft has put out a Service Pack 1 for Windows Exchange Server 2007 that fiddles with its console, Outlook access and disaster recovery, adding standby continuous replication and more support for mobile devices. Microsoft claims 3,000 companies as customers, translating into a million seats.

From the Society Page
Google co-founder Larry Page weds Lucy Southworth this weekend on Richard Branson's personal Caribbean island with Branson as best man and 600 guests in attendance.

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