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Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets
jfruh writes: If Dell has a reputation in the PC market, it's as the company that got low-end PCs to customers cheaply. But after the great drama of founder Michael Dell taking the company private, the company is following a new path, adding higher-quality (and more expensive) products like the Venue 8 7000, the thinnest tablet on the market today, to its lineup. One analyst notes that "Because they are no longer reporting to Wall Street, they can be more competitive."
Its really more in the greater ability to take risks and make quick decisions.
Shareholders are shortsighted. Everything is quarter to quarter these days. Google has shareholders, but Page and Brin own the majority of the shares so they have control, and when shareholders give them shit every year for spending so much money and resources on failed side ventures and pie in the sky stuff like self-driving cars, they tell the other shareholders to get bent, because they can't be raided by people like Carl Icahn and have their company taken from them because they're not giving a higher dividend or because their R&D budget is absurd.
In April Google also did a stock split, and started offering Class-C shares that trade under "GOOGL", they have 0 voting rights. Granted you can still purchase class-A shares, as before...but even before this stock split there were still two classes of shares: :: available to the public, and
Class-B :: - primarily held by Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt.
Class-A
Class-B shares have 10 times the voting rights of Class-A, and gives the Class-B holders 61%+ of the voting rights.