Twitter, BlackBerry and Dell among the protagonists of 2013 - PC World in Spanish

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Twitter to bag

If 2012 will be remembered for the IPO of one of the heavyweights of social networks, Facebook, in 2013 it was the turn of Twitter. November 7 saw the IPO of the social network, who the previous night had set the share price at $ 26. On the day of its IPO, Twitter came to fetch $ 45.1 shares in the opening minutes and the value of the stock was about to touch $ 50.

Total

The share value of Twitter increased by about 75 percent. Twitter brought bag 70 million shares , more than 10.5 million to investors. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank Securities were companies that support the operation, together with Allen & Company LLC and CODE Advisors listed as co-directors.

Dell becomes private

January

half started the rumors about the possible sale of Dell, rumors became reality in February when the CEO and founder of Dell, Michael Dell, announced that it would acquire, along with Silver Lake, the company.

total, Michael Dell and Silver Lake disbursed 24,400 million for the third largest computer manufacturer in the world. The operation was also found Microsoft, who provided 2,000 million.

In late October, during the celebration of his TechCamp in Paris, Michael Dell explained the benefits of Dell’s new situation. The first, and perhaps most importantly, stay away from the control of markets, which leaves more freedom to focus on what really matters, helping clients to provide solutions for their business and adequate infrastructure. “In the last four months have reorganized the company,” said Michael Dell who defined this period of “exciting.”

intriguing Blackberry

Another company that took part in 2013 was Blackberry who is going through ups and downs . After publicly declared on sale in August, in September Fairfax Financial Holding, a Canadian consortium, announced that it had reached an agreement in principle to acquire BlackBerry by 4,700 million. When it looked like the future of the Canadian company had decided, the interest of a number of technology companies (Cisco, Google, Intel, Samsung and SAP) are met.

While SAP

denied interest in buying Blackberry, rumors pointed to Lenovo and John Sculley, former Apple CEO would also be assessing buy Blackberry. Facebook and Qualcomm were the last two companies, according to rumors, were interested in buying Blackberry.

Finally, Blackberry received a capital injection of 1,000 billion Fairfax Financial Holding and other investors, which the company was no longer for sale.

-Barbara Madariaga, PCWorld Mexico