This week's episode of Channel Beat, which recaps the week's top news stories and trends, looks at a new offer for Dell from The Blackstone Group that's reportedly higher than Silver Lake Partner's $24.4 billion offer, plus a proposed Massachusetts sales tax on IT services, and the Facebook "black" scam that's tricking users of the social media site into giving up their personal data.
PUBLISHED MARCH 22, 2013
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Privacy Please: 5 Efforts To Take IT Companies Private Going private is a hot topic these days, with Websense's $1 billion deal this week and Dell's ongoing effort to become a private company. Here's a look at five "going private" cases -- some that succeeded and some that didn't get off the ground. |
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50 Cool Tools For Solution Providers Here is CRN's list of 50 breakthrough tools - software platforms, applications and cloud services - that partners can use to run their own business and more effectively manage their customers' business. |
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One In Three VARs Says Has Fired A Vendor This Year A recent partner survey conducted by Enterasys Networks finds that solution providers are calling it quits with vendor partners for a variety of reasons -- with a lack of trust being one of them. |
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