Todd Morgenfeld, a former executive at Silver Lake Partners, has joined Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) as a senior vice president and will help with the company’s mobility strategy, CNN Money reported Thursday. Dan Primack writes Morgenfeld was previously involved in negotiations surrounding Silver Lake’s offer to acquire Dell (NASDAQ: DELL). Silver... 

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has announced financial results for the first quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, reporting 10 percent higher revenue in its enterprise solutions group from the prior year period. Revenue for the quarter $3.1 billion and operating income increased 71 percent from the previous year’s quarter to $136 million. Services revenue grew... 

Sameer Ramchandani, a former director at Optimus, and Tom Banks, a former business development director at IntelliDyne, have joined Smartronix as strategic program directors in that company’s cloud computing business. Ramchandani will be responsible for business development and forming strategies to grow Smartronix’s cloud computing business in... 

Dell‘s (NASDAQ: DELL) board of directors and Carl Icahn have signed an agreement to limit the investor and affiliated entities from owning more than 10 percent of Dell. Icahn also agreed to not enter into agreements with other shareholders to own more than 15 percent of Dell’s shares between them, Dell said Monday. The activist investor proposed... 

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded three small businesses positions on a potential $5,314,335,810 contract for information technology equipment. Alliance Technology Group, Red River Computer and Valador will compete for orders to provide the VA desktops, laptops, servers, switches, routers, storage services and tablet computers over five years,... 

A special committee within Dell‘s (NASDAQ: DELL) board of directors is looking at alternative takeover proposals nearly a month after the company agreed to $24.4 billion buyout deal with Silver Lake. The company is evaluating the proposals from Blackstone Group and Carl Icahn during a 45-day go-shop period, Reuters reports. Icahn offered $15 per... 

Maggie Bauer, a veteran of companies such as Dynamics Research Corp. and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has joined Creative Computing Solutions Inc. as senior vice president for health services. She joins the company as itInformation Technology is aiming to provide agencies tools for clinical design, informatics, research and analysis, education program design and... 

Federal information technology and consulting provider Catapult Technology has appointed 17-year CIA and 11-year contracting veteran Bruno Mahlmann senior vice president for national security information technology solutions. Mahlmann will lead a newly-formed division the company formed with the intent of winning business with federal intelligence agencies,... 

Dell (NYSE: DELL) has agreed to be acquired byBudget Year global technology investment firm Silver Lake and founder Michael Dell in a deal worth approximately $24.4 billion that will take the company private. The company said itInformation Technology expects the deal to close before the end of the second quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, subject to regulatory... 

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is nearing a deal for a buyout led byBudget Year California-based private equity firm Silver Lake Management LLC, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) could provide some funding and Michael Dell could contribute between $500 million and $1 billion of equity financing for the deal, the report said. Michael Dell currently holds...