Dell’s Earnings Fall 79% as Sales of PCs Fade

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/business/dells-earnings-fall-79-as-sales-of-pcs-fade.html?_r=0&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1368741766-b5BvHuWPKKic9jjxdbVd2g

Michael Dell, the chief executive, and the private-equity house Silver Lake want to take the world’s third-largest PC maker private for $24.4 billion, arguing that its transformation into a provider of enterprise-computing services was best conducted away from public market scrutiny.