As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath : And then the dispossessed were drawn west-from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out.
Japanâs NTT to Buy Dell Systems for $3.055 Billion. NTT Data Corp., a unit of Japanâs former telephone monopoly, agreed to buy Dell Inc.âs information-technology services businesses for $3.06 billion as it expands sales outside Japan. The acquisition would be by far NTT Dataâs largest, increasing access to the U.S. and other foreign markets to counter sluggish economic growth at home.
From the start, Dell sold custom built computers directly to end-users. Dell has employed as many as 78,000 people worldwide, which is five times as many people as are employed at the University of Texas, where the company was born. Dell products are now also sold in Wal-Mart, Staples, and other retail outlets. Michael Dell, Inventor of Dell Computers, Founder of Dell Inc.: