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On Monday, Senate passed a bill allowing North Carolina to ban the direct sales of Tesla (NYSE: TSLA) vehicles to consumers. Specifically, the bill would make it illegal for any automaker to bypass dealerships and sell directly in the state. The bill is sponsored by the North Carolina...

This weekend in Barron's online: a special report on the record Dow and the prospects for actively managed ETFs, the buyout of Dell, and Western Union and Uni-Pixel. Cover Story "We Were Right!" by Gene Epstein. In this special report, Barron's "jubilantly joins the hoopla" over the Dow reaching...

This weekend in Barron's online: the impending impact on the economy and Wall Street of the Millennial generation, and the prospects for Boeing's Dreamliner, the Dell buyout, Hanesbrands and Ecolab. Cover Story "On the Rise" by Jacqueline Doherty. The so-called Millennials, those who have...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) spent nearly $300 million on assets and acquisitions in the first quarter of 2013. According to Bloomberg, the total expenditures came to $291 million. Roughly half of that money went to patents and developed technology; an additional $125 million was used to acquire...

If Sony's (NYSE: SNE) oversized all-in-one PC/tablet combo was not big enough for consumers, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) might have the perfect replacement. According to DigiTimes, Intel has begun to push its so-called adaptive all-in-one PC concept -- which provides a platform to build semi-portable...

It’s not uncommon for companies to miss on their revenue line, but when was the last time you saw a big company miss by nearly 50 percent? If the latest PC data issued on Wednesday were a company, its stock would look like a biotech that couldn’t gain FDA approval on a late stage drug. It would...

This weekend in Barron's online: the drama over a buyout for Dell, beneficial share buybacks, outraged Russian investors, and the prospects for Eaton, STMicroelectronics and Ruby Tuesday. Cover Story "Michael Dell's Folly" by Andrew Bary. Now that Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) and activist...

The tablet market is getting bigger. Everybody knows that but when IDC released its 2012 report, nobody thought that it would report results like these. According to the report, tablet shipments grew 78.4 percent year over year in 2012 representing more than 128 million tablets shipped. This...

At first Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) had only one suitor – company founder, Michael Dell who, along with Silver Lake Partners says he plans to take the company private and has offered $13.65 a share. Then, according to The New York Times, Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), Francisco Partners, and Insight...

There seems to be a flood of bad news for the PC industry every month. First the economy was blamed. Then the shift to tablets and the anticipation for Windows 8 (consumers were thought to have held off on making a purchase until the new OS arrived) took center stage. In January, when PC sales...