Dell

Michael Dell founded the company in 1984 from his Texas dorm room, starting a new computer business under the name of PC's Limited. Today Dell provides a broad range of technology products for the consumer, education, enterprise, and government sectors. In addition to its line of desktop and notebook PCs, Dell offers network servers, data storage systems, printers, Ethernet switches, and peripherals, such as displays and projectors. The company was taken private in September 2013 by Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners in a deal worth $25 billion. In October 2015, the company announced plans to acquire data storage giant EMC Corporation, in a deal worth $67 billion. Read Less