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Computer maker Dell Computer has announced that founder Michael Dell has resumed the role of the company's chief executive officer. Michael Dell is replacing Kevin Rollins, who is leaving the firm immediately after taking th CEO seat in 2004. “The Board believes that Michael's vision and leadership are critical to building Dell's leadership in the technology industry for the long-term,” said Samuel A. Nunn,… Read More

“In an annual briefing for Wall Street analysts, Rollins pointed to market research data that forecasts 10 percent growth in first-quarter global PC unit shipments, down from average growth of 16percent during the prior six quarters. “As we have come into (the first quarter), it's become clear things are a bit slower (than last year), a little bit slower than maybe we had even thought,” Rollins said, referring to the 10… Read More

“Chief Executive Kevin Rollins said the company was considering using Advanced Micro Devices chips for some future server products, but stressed that Dell had no formal plans as yet to embraceAMD. “We have been studying AMD closely. Some of their products are more advanced,” Rollins told reporters during a conference call following the company's third-quarter earnings report. “We have not announced using any AMD… Read More

Dell Inc. founder and chairman Michael Dell handed over the chief executive's job to president Kevin Rollins on Friday as the computer giant raised its earnings guidance for the second quarter,citing better results from operations and a lower global tax rate. Michael Dell, who started the company in 1984 while a student at the University of Texas, announced in March that he was stepping down as CEO and made the move official at the… Read More

Twenty years after founding Dell, Michael Dell will transfer the title of chief executive officer to Kevin Rollins, with whom he has led the world's fastest growing, most profitable computer systems company since 1997. Dell's board of directors, meeting today in New York City, appointed Rollins CEO effective at the company's July 16 annual meeting of shareholders. Mr. Rollins, currently president and chief operating… Read More