{"id":5409,"date":"2013-01-15T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2511912"},"modified":"2013-01-15T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:45:00","slug":"dell-reported-in-buyout-talks-with-private-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/dell-reported-in-buyout-talks-with-private-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Reported in Buyout Talks with Private Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dell is in buyout talks with \u201cat least\u201d two private equity firms that would take the PC company-in-transition private, according to a story in Bloomberg Monday afternoon that sent Dell\u2019s stock up close to 14% to over $12 a share, roughly what Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford Bernstein thinks Dell\u2019s worth.<br \/>\nThe report cites two unidentified people with \u201cknowledge of the matter.\u201d<br \/>\nDell refused to comment on rumor and speculation.<br \/>\nBloomberg called the talks \u201cpreliminary\u201d and said they \u201ccould fall apart\u201d if the financing can\u2019t be arranged or the potential investors can\u2019t figure out how to ultimately exit the investment. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2511912\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dell is in buyout talks with \u201cat least\u201d two private equity firms that would take the PC company-in-transition private, according to a story in Bloomberg Monday afternoon that sent Dell\u2019s stock up close to 14% to over $12 a share, roughly what Ton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}